Why is Pressing a Button on Shabbos Considered Work?

Question:
Rabbi, do you honestly believe, that pressing a button to cross the street, is considered doing work on the Sabbath? It doesn't seem to strenuous to me.
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Answer:
It is not strenuous work, that is forbidden on Shabbos, but rather creative work.

During the working week, we strive to make the world a better, safer and more comfortable place. We use our human ingenuity, to invent, build, develop, and improve the world around us. But on the seventh day, we step back into ourselves, and realize that G-d really runs the world.

We take a break from trying to change the world, and we appreciate the innate beauty of the world, that G-d created. Instead of altering our surroundings, we enjoy them.

Rather than utilize the amenities that technology has given us, we enjoy the blessings that G-d has given us - love, family, friendship, meditation, and just being human.
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Shabbos is a like a dream-world; and we enter this dream-world, by leaving the mundane world behind. Even the smallest disturbance -- like pressing a button -- would bring us crashing back down to the mundane earth.

And there's nothing worse, than waking up from a wonderful dream, before it's over…