The Importance Of The Sabbath

In this lecture, we're going to speak about a very important topic. The name of it is Shabbat, the Sabbath. This is one of the most important subjects in Judaism. As we, the Jewish people, received the Torah from God 3,300 years ago in Mount Sinai, 49 days after we came out of Egypt, after 210 years that the Jewish nation were in Egypt when they were still the Hebrews, They were not officially Jewish yet. 7 weeks later, we got the Torah in a public event in front of 3.5 million people approximately. They all witnessed Moses speaking to God, and everybody witnessed the entire event. Let's not forget that a year before they came out of Egypt, God striked the Egyptian nation with 10 plagues, as we all read in the Bible, and all of them witnessed the miracles one after the other which happened happened every month accordingly, just before the Exodus of Egypt. As we now arrive to Mount Sinai, all of us witness the glory of God coming down on the mountain, as is described in the chapter of Jethro in the Torah, that the entire nation were panicked and they got very scared for the appearance of God for the first and last time in history. There was a discovery of the Creator of the world to a very large group of people. Until then, only individuals had the merit to speak to God privately, such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Noah, Adam. Those people were before the acceptance of the Torah. Once we received the Torah, it was in front of millions of people. That's one of the most important differences between Judaism to 80,000 religions that came later. All of them are fake, were all made by one individual. No one ever witnessed that that God ever spoke to him or gave him or her anything, such as for instance Islam, Muhammad claimed that he got the Quran from Angel Gabriel. He learned the details in Judaism that there is such an angel, and he told us a story that God gave him the book, the angel gave him the book, but no one ever witnessed that. Same thing in Christianity, Mary claimed that she had a dream and God made her pregnant in the middle of a dream, Nobody obviously ever witnessed that. Same thing in Buddhism. Buddha came and said he saw the light, he had an enlightenment. Nobody obviously witnessed that. And many, many other fake religions and cults who came later after Judaism, they all follow the same idea. It's a story of one person that can never be proven by any witnesses. Unlike them, the first substantial religion, Judaism— when I say substantial religion, it's because before Judaism, in the time Abraham and even before, there were many idol worshippers, all kinds of cults where people follow fake gods such as woods, stones, idols, etc. And you know, everybody made himself a religion. But once the Exodus of Egypt occurred and 7 weeks later we got the Torah in Mount Sinai, it was all clear to everyone. There is one God, there is a nation that he chose them, those are the Hebrews, the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. When he gave them the Torah in a public event, and when he actually asked Moses to go to Egypt to redeem the Jewish nation, it was a week of argument between Moses and God, which Moses refused to go, claiming anyway no one would believe me when I come and say that God spoke to me individually. And God actually agreed with his claim. He did not get upset at him. He told him, you know what, they will only believe in you after I will speak to you in a public event in front of everyone, and after that they would believe in you for eternity. In the book of Exodus chapter 19, verse 1, this is what it says: And Moses gathered the entire Jewish nation and he said to them, you saw everything that God did in front of your eyes in the land of Egypt. To Pharaoh and all his servants and his entire nation. Meaning no one can tell you stories. It didn't happen 500 years ago before you were born or to your grand-grandparents. You saw everything that is written in the book that we receive here today. You actually experienced that and you actually saw it in front of your own eyes. Therefore, if you're going to find one mistake in this book, then you will know it's not divine. First, God is God is not capable of making mistakes such as human errors. Second, God is not a liar, as we see in the entire Torah how strict it was about telling the truth, not deceiving, not telling any lies, and there are severe punishments to those who deceive and perform all kinds of other, you know, ethical problems. So therefore, we can see in the Torah that everything that is written there was witnessed and confirmed by all the people that received the Torah from Moses in a public event. Given in Mount Sinai. But before the Torah was given to the Jewish nation, they also received an important, very precious gift from God. As God told Moses, go and inform the Jewish nation I have something very, very precious in my treasury. I would like to give it to them. Go and inform them and prepare them. What is this precious gift? The answer is Shabbat, or in English, the Sabbath. This is a very special day. It's a day of rest. Spiritual rest, not only physical rest, which we're going to elaborate soon. And I would like them to give it to them and only to them. I would not give this gift to any other nation in the world. I am making a special covenant between me and the children of Israel, the chosen people, the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, today by giving you the Sabbath. Later on, shortly after, I will give you my entire Torah in a public event. And that's officially how Judaism started. So, so far we understand that when you compare Judaism to other religions and cults, there are many, many differences that can prove right away which one is real and which one is fake. I would like to give you only one example of how do you know the Torah is divine and cannot be written by human beings. Of course, we don't have time in this video to, to bring hundreds of examples that I have in my other films, such as Torah in Science, The Purpose of Life, Life After Death. Go over there and watch the proofs or read my books. But in general, I will give you one example. How do you know a book is divine? Obviously, as I said before, in a book that is from God, you don't have mistakes. You don't find human errors. The Torah said to the Jewish people, if you want to eat seafood all over the world, you are allowed in one condition: that everything you catch will have two signs— fins and scales. If it has those two, it's kosher. If it doesn't have One of them or both of them, it's not kosher. Now we have to understand, 72% of the world is water. Rivers, lakes, ocean. 72%, it's almost 3/4 of the world. And we already went 12 kilometers depth, meaning like approximately 9 miles, which is very, very deep. There's a lot of pressure. There are billions and trillions of species moving in the ocean, many, many different kinds. As we all know, the ocean is very rich. And the Torah was given approximately 3,300 years ago, and God in his book committed that everything you catch— this part comes in the Oral Torah, and it's written very clearly over there— everything you will ever see that have scales automatically will have fins. You will never find something with scales that does not have fins. You can find things that have fins but don't have scales, like shark, dolphin, But you will never find something that have scales that when you scratch the body, the scales fall off like with the fish that we eat, the kosher fish. If it has scales, it will always have fins. Meaning, if someone will give you half a raw fish, half, just the head, and he cut out the fins, and you don't recognize that fish. You don't need to see the fins. If you see scales on half a body, that means it had scales. It has fins. Why? 'Cause God promised. Now you have to understand, human being cannot take such responsibility. When he gives a book to millions of people in a public event and he promised them everything that have scales will always have fins. And now 3,300 years later, you search all over the world, no one ever found any species in water that have scales and does not have fins. No one. Who could have taken such a risk? Who could have taken such a risk? The answer is only the one who created the world, the oceans, the rivers, the fish, and control the future. Don't forget that half of the species approximately that you have today in the water did not even exist back then. They constantly merge together, get mixed, and create new species. Also, scientists in labs, they create new species, and no one ever made something that have scales but did not have fins. The answer is because God promised, and that's how we have to follow this instruction, and it will not mislead us and make us wrong, counting on what he promised, and in the end we're gonna eat something that was not kosher. So this is a perfect example how do you see that the book is divine, because a human being could never write such a thing, because he knows he doesn't control the future, he cannot watch the world simultaneously and see what exists, what does not exist, because if you can check one river, they move to the other side, and they move all over the— there's no way for a human being to know such knowledge, and that's why we call it divine information. But we are focusing right now on the event that millions of people witnessed, every word that is written in a book. In other religions, someone comes and tells you a story. You were not there. You cannot confirm or deny. You have to believe, and it's all based on faith, just faith. In Judaism, there's no such thing as only faith, because God referred to the Jews, you should know I'm your God. All the nations should know I'm your God. You should know there's no God under the ground, and there's no one above the heaven besides me. You should never have any other god but me. And there are many, many verses who actually explain without any doubt the importance of understanding there's only one God, and he chose the Jewish people. He gave them his Torah, which is the most important thing. And in the Torah you have the Sabbath, which is a day of the covenant between God and the Jewish nation. Now we have to remember If you search the entire world, you find every country, every nation, regardless of religion, they all follow a cycle of 7 days. Everywhere you go, the week is 7 days, which doesn't add up, because if you look at the month, which is 30 days divided by 4 weeks, it leaves you 2 days extra. The math here is not exactly perfect. Also, if you take 365 days in a year and divide it by 7, also it doesn't add up. Correctly. So what's going on here? Why everyone all over the world celebrates a cycle of 7? The answer is because the first week in the creation, there were 6 days of creation. Every day something else was created, as it appears in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. Every day something else was created, and in the 6 days Adam and Eve were created, and that's how humanity actually started. And right there, in the end of Friday, in the evening, the Sabbath began, and the The Torah begins to describe what happened in that 7 days, which we're going to explain in a minute. So we have an understanding here that the number 7 is a substantial number. And why? Because every material object that you will hold and you will watch have 6 dimensions: south, north, west, east, up, and down. Everything material, every material has 6 dimensions. 7, it's going out of the material world into a spiritual world. That's why the 7 days is unique, it's special, and it was given to the Jewish people. By them observing the Sabbath, they actually publishing the story of the creation of the world, that everything has a plan and a planner, and everything is supervised, and every person is being watched. Watched and recorded, and everything he does is registered in the book of God. Let's move forward. And the book of Exodus chapter 19, verse 5, it says, and now if you're going to listen to me and observe my covenant, you will be a special nation to me from all the nations, because I am the master of the land. Rashi, 950 years ago in France, one of the most important commentary on the Torah, on the book of Exodus chapter 19 verse 4, this is what he writes: It's not a tradition in your hand what I'm telling you today that you have to go in the past and investigate what took place. I made each one of you a witness to everything that happened to you and is happening to you now when you're receiving this Torah. Therefore, nobody can tell you stories about what happened in the past the past. We will continue in the Book of Genesis chapter 2. It's written as follows: Heaven and earth and everything of the land paused, and God finished the creation in the beginning of the 7 days, as he did. And he struck in the 7th day from all the creations that he made, and he blessed the 7th day and he sanctified it. Because in the 7th day he rested and did not create anything else. In the book of Exodus chapter 20 verse 8, this is what it says: Zachoret yom haShabbat lekatchor. Every Jew has to remember the Sabbath weekly to sanctify it. 6 days you will work and you do everything you need to do, and in the 7th day is a Sabbath to your God. You should not create anything— you, your son, your daughter, your servants, and your animals. Back then they used animals for their needs. And the citizens that live among you in the land, because God created heaven and earth and everything that exists in the oceans in 6 days, and in the 7th day he rested. And therefore he blessed the 7th day and sanctified it. In the book of Exodus chapter 31, verse 13: And you should talk to the nation of Israel to teach them. You should know and be careful to observe my Sabbaths, plural, because it's a sign between me and you for generations to know, not to believe, to know that I am the God that sanctified you. And it continues right there to verse 14: And you observe the Sabbath because it is holy to you. Anyone who will not observe the Sabbath should be put to death in this world and in the next world, which is an eternal world. Because everyone who will create something that is forbidden, that soul of that person will be cut out of the Jewish nation permanently. God forbid. And it continues right there, verse 15: 6 days all the work will be done, and the 7th day is a special day of rest. It's holy to God. Everyone who will violate the Sabbath, mot yumat, should die early, younger in this life, could lose few years of his life, but that's not really the main punishment. The main punishment is what comes when the person dies and the soul comes out of the body. The soul goes up to the court of heaven. We have one year trial. That's why in Judaism when someone dies you say Kaddish, special prayer for them for the entire year because they'll stand in a trial and they need our help and they need serious mercy because they are being judged for every sin and every crime they committed and also for the good things that they actually committed. So because there is a trial and a person now is going to receive a verdict And if he was not an observant of the Sabbath, he is going to have an, unfortunately, a very serious problem. Now remember, you have to know everything I've been telling you now, I'm giving you the sources. You don't have to believe me, of course. None of it is my opinion. In this video, you will not find one word that is my opinion. Therefore, if you like it or you don't like it, it has nothing to do with me. It's between you and your Creator. Creator of the world, he gave us these instructions. You have to read it and understand it. You want to follow, it's your choice. You do not want to follow and ignore, it's also your choice. But we have to remember, sooner or later, all of us, for good and for bad, we will have to deal with the consequences of our choices. That's why this video is one of the most important things you will watch in your entire life, perhaps the most critical, and I'm most important video that you will ever watch. Why? Because your eternity depends on what you're going to do after you get this information. Now I would like to clarify one more thing. Most of the Jews in the world, unfortunately today, do not observe the Sabbath. My guess, at least 70% of Jews in the world do not observe the Sabbath at all. Most of them are not even aware what Sabbath means. They just think maybe it's a day of off from work, a day of a picnic, a day to go to the beach, etc. They don't understand what does it mean a covenant with God that was given to us in a special way and how important it is and why it's important for every Jew to follow the instruction of the Sabbath. Most of them are ignorant, they never learned Torah. As a matter of fact, after 27 years of speaking all over the world to so many thousands of people, I actually never found one secular Jew that read the Torah from the beginning to the end and understand the simple meaning of the words. Forget about all the secrets and numeric values and skips of words and letters and all kinds of hidden information and Midrash and Oral Torah and Kabbalah. I'm not even getting into this complicated thing. I'm only speaking about the level of first and second grade. How many Jews, Israelis, or Americans, or Europeans read the Torah once in their life from the beginning to the end and learned the meaning of the words? The answer is probably none. I never met one, and I always ask this question, and not one was able to raise his hand and say, "I can explain to you every word of the Torah, what it means, and I still choose to ignore the instructions of God." It never happened, because in my experience, everyone who did learn the Torah and read even parts of it immediately understood that this book could never be written by a human being. Only the Creator of the world was able to write such a book. It has a lot of divine knowledge. As a matter of fact, my website called Divine Information because all it does, it has a lot of great videos to prove the divinity of the Torah. And also I have a book that's called Divine Information and also another book, Preparation for Eternal Life, who leaves no doubt for everyone who is real and honest. Once they read the book, they understand 100% that this Torah is the book of God and it obligates each one of us, Jews and also Gentiles. Gentiles. There are 7 laws of the Gentiles and other things they have to follow. Gentiles also have a concept of reward and punishment and heaven and world to come, but that's not our topic right now. So let's continue. The Torah continues, and the nation of Israel observed the Sabbath. We are still on Exodus chapter 31, verse 16. And the nation of Israel observed the Sabbath, to do the Sabbath an eternal covenant for generations between me and the nation of Israel. It's a sign for eternity that 6 days God created heaven and earth, and in the 7th day he rested. Right, right after that, rabotai, ladies and gentlemen, the official Sabbath was given and everybody started to obey the rules. In this video, we're not obviously have the time to start teaching all the 39 restrictions that forbidden on the Sabbath. Everyone who is interested can inquire, you know, the information. It's very possible and very easy to get. We are now focusing on the importance of the Sabbath and the consequences of those who keep it and those who ignore it. For those of you who ignore it now watch this video, you have to reconsider your way, because if a person head the wrong highway to the wrong direction, obviously there are consequences in the end when he find out that his entire life was based on a serious mistake. And the Book of Exodus chapter 35, and Moshe, Moses gathered the entire Jewish nation and he say to them, those are the things that God commanded us to do. Sixth day all work should be done. And the 7th day, it's a special holy day, a day of strike, like a holiday. Everyone who will violate it should be put to death. Do not create fire in all your territories on the 7th day. As Moshe instructed the nation exactly as God commanded him to do. So we all have to understand, Rabotai, here that the Sabbath, besides the actual fact of being a special day in the covenant, have restrictions and things that we have to do to sanctify the Shabbat, and it's very critical. In the book of Deuteronomy chapter 5, it say, observe the Sabbath to sanctify it as God commanded you, as your God commanded you. 6 days you should do everything you need and all your work. And in the seventh day, it's a special Shabbat for your God. Do not violate it— you, your son, your servant, your animals. Obviously keeps repeating. How many times the Sabbath is mentioned in the Torah? 12 times. More than anything besides one subject. In the book of Nehemiah, this is— now we go going into the books of the prophets, it's written in chapter 9, verse 13, and you landed on Mount Sinai and you spoke to the Jewish nation from heaven and you gave them honest and decent laws and true torahs, plural torahs, laws and good deeds. Why does it say torahs? Because remember, Judaism Judaism started in Mount Sinai by receiving the written Torah and the oral Torah. The written Torah has 613 commandments: 248 positive commandments, 365 restrictions. Every commandment is connected to one of the organs in the body. 248 organs, 248 good deeds, positive commandments. Each one connects to an organ. 365 ligaments, 365 restrictions. Each restriction is connected to one of the ligaments. When the soul comes out of the body, according to Kabbalah, they teach us that secret. A soul is like a puzzle of 613 pieces. When a person fulfills all the commandments and avoids all the restrictions, the puzzle is a full picture. When he broke many of the laws, his picture is sometimes empty. Empty. As soon as you come to the court of heaven, before the trial begins, everybody already knows if this is a righteous person or a wicked person immediately. So now the 613 commandments, although some of them have serious punishments, do not have any explanation how to keep them, how to fulfill the commandments. All the information how to keep, how to prepare, when to do, when not to do, by whom, by not, by whom you're allowed, by whom you're not allowed, from what age, how many times, etc. All were given to Moshe in Mount Sinai, and therefore you cannot fulfill one commandment in the Torah before you check in the oral law what's all the commentary and explanation about it. This is very important. You may ask, why not to write everything in one book and That's it. The answer is because the size of this book would be like 10,000 books and no one would be able to even lift it. You need a big semi-trailer just to move it around. Plus, God was very, very zealous about his instruction that it will not fall to the hand of other nations. If all nations would translate the Torah to their language, everyone can pretend to be a Jew. He won't need to come to the Jews and be tested to make sure that he follow all the and to be circumcised for the men and to go into the natural water pool, you know, and to do the conversion. Everyone would pretend that he's a Jew and then the nations will all get mixed and no one would know if he's Jewish or not after a few generations. And the purpose of this creation by giving the Jews the Torah and all the important things that follows will all be destroyed just before everything started. Therefore, to reserve he was passing from student to— from rabbi to student, from father to son separately. There was no permission to write everything in one book. And that's how it was transferred from generation to generation until it was written approximately almost 2,000 years ago by Rabbi Uday HaNasi. That's what we call the Mishnah, and follows the Gemara, who explained all the Mishnah. And that's what we call today Oral Torah, Torah Shebe'alpeh in Hebrew. Now we're going to learn separate the severity of breaking the covenant called the Sabbath. Amichalel Shabbat, someone who breaks Shabbat, his punishment is the same like a Jew who worships an idol. If a Jew has an idol and he bows down to that idol and behaves like this idol is his god, obviously it's a serious crime. That's called idol worship. By the way, even Gentiles are not allowed to do it. For Jews and for Gentiles is death penalty. The Sabbath, it's death by stoning, God forbid. As it's written, it's a sign between you and me for generation to know I'm the God that sanctify you. And that's a vessel, a preparation for me to live among you in your soul. Someone that observe the Sabbath shows that this, the covenant between him and God exists and it's current, and God lives in his soul, meaning a spark of God is in him, and he is holy, that person. Someone who doesn't show that, he doesn't believe in God. And therefore it's written, someone that does not keep the Sabbath counts like someone who does not believe in the entire Torah. Torah. That may be a little bit interesting because there are many traditional people that keep certain commandments. They don't keep the Sabbath. They have a mezuzah, they circumcise their boys, they eat matzah on Pesach, they do a lot of other things, but they don't keep the Sabbath. But by not keeping the Sabbath, a person put himself in a status that I am an atheist, a non- believer. I don't believe in God and I don't believe in his Torah. You may ask, how come? Why there's such a strict consequences? The answer is someone who understands the severity of the Sabbath as a covenant between God and the Jewish nation, eternal covenant, and dare to break it— there's nothing more ungrateful than that. Nothing. So the person is able to do such a thing, there is only one conclusion: he obviously doesn't believe in God and he obviously does not care about the Torah because he doesn't look at the Torah as a divine document. Because there's no other explanation that someone will know that he got a book from God directly directed to him and he will dare in his face while he's watching him to rebel against him. You don't really find people that have such guts. I mean, people fight with each other, but to find someone who declare war against God understanding what he does, that's very, very rare. I would like to tell us a story that maybe will open up the heart of all the listeners prisoners. In the Holocaust, the Nazis used to bring Jews for a trial, which they obviously chose the Sabbath. The judge was a Jew, the guy that writes the protocol was a Jew, and of course all the defendants were all Jewish. And the audience were the Nazi officers over there sitting and enjoying the show. One time they brought an old woman, blaming her that she threw a piece of bread to a prisoner in As they ask her, did you throw the bread to that prisoner? And she refused to answer. And the judge asked her again and again and again and she doesn't answer. And they scream from the audience, Mom, it wasn't you, you were not even there, there are witnesses here that testify that it's not you, please open your mouth. And she doesn't answer. So the men, the Nazis that was in charge, said to the judge, you ask her one final time. That's it. After that, death penalty. He asked the judge, begging her. The judge was Jewish, begging her, can you answer please? It's the last time I'm asking you. She did not answer. The judge had no choice. He had to rule the death penalty. And as they taking her out, her son came to her and cried, said, Mom, why are you committing suicide? Why are you giving up on life? We are not allowed to give up And she answered to her son, "Don't be a fool. If I would answer, the Jewish guy that writes the protocol will have to write on Shabbat. He will break Shabbat. How can I do it to another Jew? Just to save myself, I'll destroy him? I'd rather die than make another Jew break the Sabbath." Of course, if you look at that from an halacha point of view, she was totally mistaken because the Torah says say in order for you to save life, you're allowed to break Shabbat temporarily until the life risk is over. Obviously there was a big life risk over there, so she could have spoke and the guy that could have, could have write and everything was fine. The problem is she didn't know the law. But look at the devotion, how much she was willing to lose just to not let another Jew break the Sabbath, and us, some of us just break it freely with no, no pain in their heart, with such ungratefulness. How can it be? How can we do and continue to receive oxygen and everything we have from God and continue to rebel against him with what he gives us? Take it from him, never say thank you, and use it again. Against him. Maybe it's time to wake up. Everybody that I spoke to, I asked them, why don't you keep the Sabbath? Some of them say, no, it's hard for me to stop smoking. I'm addicted to cigarettes. I asked them, do you smoke on Yom Kippur? Oh, God forbid, Yom Kippur. I'm not a goy, I'm not a Gentile. Yom Kippur is holy. I said, no, you're wrong. Yom Kippur is holy, but Shabbat is a lot holier. Yom Kippur, it's not an eternal covenant with God, it's a day of atonement, a day of repentance for your own good. You have a chance to erase many of your sins. But Shabbat is an eternal agreement with God. It's like a handshake. It's like a cable connected to the charger. If you disconnected it, the device died. Someone that doesn't keep the Sabbath, his soul is dead spiritually. He runs and makes money and plays, but the soul is dead for not receiving the peace of this covenant, which is so important. And Rambam writes, this is in the commentary of the Mishnah, of the Mishnayot, in Masechet Chulin, chapter 1, second Mishnah. It's a rule in our hand that someone that breaks the Sabbath Sabbath is 100% equal to a non-Jew. He removed from himself his Jewish status, even if he was born to a Jewish mother. You should understand that you need two conditions to be Jewish. One is that your mother is Jewish. If she's not, nothing will help you. And the second condition is you have to observe the Sabbath. If none of— one of the two you don't have, you can never be a Jew. If you're born to a Jewish mother but you don't keep the Sabbath, you lost your Jewish status until you will start keeping the Sabbath. Then you will fix the status. But until then, all the rulings that applies to non-Jews apply to this Jew because he's not keeping the Sabbath. He counts like a Gentile. And someone that keeps the Sabbath but his mother is not Jewish, he will also not help him because the Sabbath was not given to the Gentiles. Other commandments they can keep. Two things they are not allowed to keep, the Gentiles, is to learn specific Torah that was given only to Jews, meaning laws of the Sabbath, laws of certain, you know, preparing food, things that relay only to Jews. The Gentiles are not allowed to learn. General studies they can learn, and they're not allowed to observe the Sabbath. Those two things were given only to the Jewish nation. The Rambam continues in the Laws of the Sabbath, chapter 30. Shabbat and Avodah Zarah, the Sabbath and idol worshiping, each one of them count like the rest of the Torah combined. If you put on a scale the Sabbath and Avodah Zarah, and you put the rest of the commandments and restrictions, those two mitzvot Sabbath count like the entire Torah, the rest of the Torah, because it's the Shabbat, is the covenant between God and us for eternity. That's why if someone violates one of the other rules, he's a wicked Jew, but he's a Jew. But someone who breaks the Sabbath or worships an idol is 100% equal like a Gentile. And Rabbi Ovadia Bar Tenuah, 500 years ago, an important commentary on on the Mishnah in Masechet Teruvin chapter 6, Mishnah 2. It's a ruling. What is it? That every Israelite that breaks the Sabbath is 100% like a goy, like a non-Jew. Then all the laws that relates to Gentiles relates to him. You know, you cannot even do any ruach in the neighborhood like the older Jews used to to do, because when stranger live among them, they need his permission and need to pay money. They need to rent his share in a territory. Someone that doesn't keep the Sabbath, you have to rent it from him like a non— like he's a non-Jew. But from other Jews, everyone joined together, you don't have to pay them for that. It's like a family thing. But him is not count like a Jew, therefore you have to rent it for him just like you rent it from the Gentile. The Rambam continue in Hilchot Maaseh Korbanot, the laws of the sacrifices, chapter 3. A Jew that worships an idol or breaks the Sabbath, you're not allowed to accept from him any sacrifice. Even the ola, like a donation that the goyim brings, the Gentiles bring to the Temple, to the Holy Temple when the Temple was existing in Jerusalem. The Rambam continues in another chapter, Il Chotshrita, the laws of slaughtering, chapter 4. Mumar lavod asarah, mechalel Shabbat befaresia, idol worshipper and a violator of Shabbat, o apikore, someone that denies certain parts of the Torah and rebukes the Torah, doesn't accept, and doesn't accept Moses as the greatest prophet. If he slaughtered, you're not allowed to eat from his meat, even if he slaughtered 100% according to the law of slaughtering. Why? Because the only ones that are allowed to slaughter slaughter and feed Jews with this meat are Jews to Jews. And if someone that is not Jewish slaughter, even though he may have good intention, God forbid the Jews to eat slaughtering of non-Jews. So because someone who doesn't keep the Sabbath doesn't count like a Jew, if he slaughter the animal, the meat is like a dead body. Like you shoot a cow and the cow is dead for a day or two, you're not allowed to eat it. It's called someone that slaughter but is not shomer Shabbat, no one is allowed to eat from this meat. It's a serious violation to eat from it. The Rambam continues in Hilchot Masech Korbanot, chapter 3. Someone that is breaking other rules, you're allowed to accept sacrifices from them, but someone that doesn't keep the Sabbath Sabbath, you're not allowed. Why are you allowed to accept sacrifices from other criminals that keep the Sabbath but violate other rules? Because we want to encourage them to repent by bringing them closer and accepting their gifts. They feel more that they belong more, and maybe they will improve. But when it comes to the Sabbath, there is no compromise. Now, the Ramban, Sefer Torah Adam LaRamban, Provision 29, this is what's written. T'nan comes from the Gemara in Masechet Sanhedrin, page 47. The Gemara says, "En kovrim otam la'arugei be'din be'kivrot avoteim." Someone that was executed by Sanhedrin, by the big Jewish be'din that have 71 rabbis sitting in Jerusalem, right by inside the temple. They had a place that called Yishkat HaGazit. You know, someone that was executed, you don't bury them next to the parents in a regular kosher Jewish cemetery. You make separate section. You have a section for those who were stoned, those who were burned. They go together because it's equally terrible. And you make a special section for those who were killed by a sword and those who were killed by choking, because the crimes is lower than breaking Shabbat. The same way you do not You do not bury wicked with righteous. You do not bury big wicked with small wicked. Why? Because it's an insult to the dead. Let me elaborate. If a person is not Shomer Shabbat according to the Jewish law, you're not allowed to bury him in a Jewish cemetery. You have to make a fence between him and those who keep the Sabbath. Here in Israel, that there are cemeteries that are run by Orthodox, real religious kosher people. They will never allow someone that is not Shomer Shabbat to be buried with the Shomer Shabbat. Some civil cemeteries that runs by the government, as you know the government is not exactly religious, they bury everyone, but it's not kosher. In order for you to have a kosher cemetery, you must follow the rules of God. And God say you do not bury an observant of the Sabbath next to someone who did not observe the Sabbath. That's one thing. But also there is another thing. If someone is a criminal and someone is a smaller criminal, not the same criminals, you don't mix them. You have to make separate section for them. The huge criminals all in one section and the smaller criminals are in a different section. Now you may think, who is the worst criminal? Maybe a murderer? maybe a rapist, who knows? Who is the worst criminal? The answer— God answered this question. The worst criminal is someone who breaks the Sabbath. If by mistake they bury someone that did not observe the Sabbath among criminals that murdered in the times of a fight, they killed someone but they were all keeping the Sabbath. You bury all the murderers in one section because all of them were keeping the Sabbath. By mistake they buried Someone who doesn't keep Shabbat between them, you have to open the grave, which is a horrible thing to do. You have to redo a funeral. You have to open the grave, remove him from there, and bury him in a section of the much bigger criminals, those who do not keep the Sabbath. Now I'm sure that when you hear it now, you all are shocked and you may be getting angry, but remember, that's not my rules. I did not write the Torah. The Creator of the world gave us these rules. So for him to break the Sabbath to stab it is a bigger crime than to actually murder. Not that to murder is a small crime. It's a death penalty. The Torah didn't say to take murderers and put them in jail and let them watch TV and eat some good meals over there. No. The Torah says murderers should be executed and put to death. However, the way they are executed is by sword, which is much less than morning. And also murderer is mentioned 3 times in the Torah. You should not kill, etc. And the Sabbath mentioned 12 times. And murderer does not have a cut for the soul. If a person was observing the Sabbath and he was executed, and he would— after he made repentance, they executed him and he died, he may go to heaven after he repents, because there's nowhere in the Torah that it said that he should be cut like someone who doesn't keep the Sabbath. The Torah says clearly, someone who violates Shabbat, that soul will be cut out of my nation permanently. Something like this does not appear when it comes to murder or rape or many other big, horrible, despicable crimes. Because most people that I meet are not evil people, are not extremely ungrateful people who want to declare war against the Creator. That supply them with oxygen and health and everything else they have. It's just they do it out of ignorance. One perfect example, there are many Jews who drive on the Sabbath to the synagogue. They think that they actually doing something positive. They want to come to pray, they want to hear the reading of the Torah, they want to show their children the synagogue that they should stay Jewish for the future, and they drive the car. But the Torah say you should not create fire on the Sabbath in any way, with car, without a car, with a match, with any form of lighting fire, it's forbidden. That's the death penalty. To come to pray in a synagogue is a very important tradition. If a person pray at home, it's almost as good. Not as good as coming into the synagogue, obviously, but at least he prayed. But if he drives to the synagogue to pray, it's similar to someone who invest a million dollar and work for 5, 6 hours to make $1. That's really what it is. Do you know anything more foolish than that? You're willing to invest a million dollars in the end that you're gonna make a dollar? Find me that person who's agreeing to such a thing. Why people do it? Out of ignorance. No one ever told them that. Some places even the rabbis are afraid to say the truth, or either they park the car away, or the rabbi is embarrassed to rebuke them. But I am reading to you what the The law is that if you start the car, the only permission you have to break Shabbat is for life risk. Your wife has to give birth, you're not going to take her to the hospital, she may die or the baby die. Then it's a life risk. So you're allowed to break Shabbat temporarily until the life risk is over, not a second after. Even when you get to the hospital, when you open the car and you take the patient out to the emergency room, you're not allowed to close the door or to shut the engine because that's already the life risk is over, but they may steal your car. Maybe the car worth $300,000, someone would just jump in and drive. $300,000 or $300 trillion does not justify breaking Shabbat even one time. I'll give you an example. A person build a mansion, the best and the most expensive in the whole world. It has a lot of art. The art worth hundreds of millions of dollars, stacks of cash, important documents, all kinds of important things. And the house started to go on fire on Shabbat. There's fire, the candles fell, the rugs are on fire. If everyone ran out, there's no life risk. This, let's say, $500 million mansion is starting to get destroyed. In an hour, nothing will be left. A person wants to bring water and put the fire off. Is he allowed to do it on Shabbat? The answer The answer is no. Let's assume the rabbi is his neighbor and he screams to the rabbi, "Rabbi, allow me to put the fire off!" The rabbi says, "I'm sorry, I'm not God. The Torah says I'm not allowed to put fire off on Shabbat." "Baruch Hashem, I'm going to lose $500 million!" It's very bad and very misfortunate, but it is what it is. And he said to the rabbi, "I'm donating the house to you. Take it. Sell it. Take $500 million. Save many Jews." Jews, educate them about Torah, make a lot of Jews religious, help orphans and widows and poor people, help the yeshivas, prevent all kinds of other crimes. You know how much you can do with 500 million? You can save thousands of souls. Why would you let the house go on fire? Take the money in front of two witnesses. The house is yours, just allow me to put the fire off. Take also the art, sell it, do something positive with this, and in 20 minutes nothing will be left. The answer is not allowed. $500 million will be burned, and you're not allowed to break Shabbat once. That's how important is Shabbat, you understand? Many things in life, the Torah is lenient when there is a need, but when it comes to Shabbat, the only leniency is life risk. Nothing else. For those of you who think, oh, God will understand me, I'm not driving to the beach, I'm driving to the shul, to the synagogue, I want to do something good, but the synagogue is an hour away, I'm not going to be able to walk in the cold, in the heat, so he will understand me. The answer: you are totally wrong. We have to follow the divine instruction that we can only break Shabbat when someone's life is in a risk. Nothing else. Not to come to the synagogue, not to make money, not for pleasure, not for trips, or any other things that many, many people unfortunately do, not understanding what they do. Now, I know many people think, listen, I've been doing it for 10, 20, 30 years and business is booming. I make a lot of money on my businesses on the Sabbath. I go on trips. I'm healthy. I have a wife, children. Everything is fine. I wish to many of my enemies even something like this. Why would I have to be scared of breaking the Sabbath if I've been doing it for 30 years and nothing ever happened? That's a very foolish way of thinking because the Torah says that in the end everyone will be judged. The punishment is not instant. The same thing, the reward is not instant. It's written in the Torah in the end of Parashat Vayikra, the last 4 verses, I am the zealous God who pays my lovers that keep my mitzvot for 1,000 generations. And pay my enemies, my haters, cash to their face to get rid of them. I will not hold the reward for later. I will not delay the reward. I will pay them to their face to get rid of them. Meaning those who keep the commandments, I hold the reward for them to the next world, which is eternal. Why giving it to them in a world of 20, 30, years, when later on it will be for eternity in heaven. But those who don't keep, for the few good deeds that they kept in their life, I pay them cash to their face, that when they come to the court of heaven to their trial, I owe them nothing. So therefore, if someone breaks Shabbat and makes millions, that's the one we should cry for the most, is the most miserable one. And if someone keeps the Sabbath and suffers, that's a good sign. Why? God is cleaning all his punishments instead of reserving that for the next world, which is a lot worse. He is slowly, slowly cleaning the people in this world. As the Torah says, that suffering erases the sins. Reward in this world is a very bad sign. Reward in the next world is fantastic. Suffering in this world, it's a cleanup. A cheap one, an easy one, inexpensive. But people that never read the Torah, they don't understand. So they think, you know, I do it and I don't die. Of course, but it's all recorded, and then you will be judged for every time you broke Shabbat separately. Could be millions of times. Each one of them, it's a separate stoning or karet, or cut for the soul. There's no discount. The good news is that God is after all merciful, and he allows us to repent. We can always do teshuvah, repent, as the Torah says, return all the way to me, start, leave the bad things you've been doing, start listening and follow my instruction and after that I will have mercy on you. Not before, only after. When a person commits sins, the sparks of his soul slowly, slowly leave his body. Remember, the body is a house for the soul. Soul is in the head. As it's written in Genesis in the first chapter, and God created the Creator Adam, created Adam's scent from the ground and he blew a living soul into his nostrils and Adam became alive. What does it mean death? It's written and the soul of Rachel left her body, Rachel the wife of Jacob and the soul of Rachel left her body and Rachel died. Also in the book of Kohelet, King Solomon, it's saying the soul returns to the master that gave it and the body will return to the ground that that's where where it came from. Also, it's written, you came from the dust, from the sand, and you must return to the sand. Just before we finish, the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, it's written, even a wicked person, that it's a good deed to return to him a lost object. Let's say someone that is not 100% righteous lost his wallet. You went and found him and you give it back to him. Someone that eats not kosher, you know, you know, he doesn't know what kosher, not kosher is not righteous. You return to him a lost object. But someone that does not keep the Sabbath excludes himself from the brotherhood of the nation of Israel, and you're not allowed to return the lost object to him. Aso lachzir lo aveda. Aso. It's unbelievable. Many people do not know that. When the Gentile lost something, it doesn't say you're not allowed to return to him. If you have time to find him and give him back the object, you earn the mitzvah of Kiddush Hashem, glorify the name of God. When the Gentile sees that the Jew bothered so much to find me and return to me my wallet or money that I lost or anything like that, it's Kiddush Hashem. But when it's a Jew that doesn't keep the Sabbath, It's not allowed to return to him, meaning he's worse than the goy, than Gentile. Unfortunately, someone that does not keep the Sabbath, you cannot accept a testimony from him in a Jewish court, what we call beddin. If he come to testify, you're not allowed to accept it. If he testified in someone's wedding, you need two witnesses to sign on a ketubah, the couple is not married. They have to get remarried. If they will have children, these children will be kids out of the marriage, like a boyfriend and girlfriend, even though they had a chuppah ceremony and a wedding and a party. Because one of the two witnesses, or both of them, were not keeping Shabbat, the actual wedding never took place. What's gonna be with those kids? The kids are not mamzerim. They're not illegitimate kids. They can still get married and have a normal life. But it's like a boyfriend and girlfriend that had a child a child without a marriage. Someone that does not keep the Sabbath, if he touch the wine, the wine is not kosher anymore. You're not allowed to use it, not allowed to drink from it. If he bake bread, the bread is not kosher. If he cook food, the food is not kosher. The mechalel Shabbat create fire, right? Create fire. The fire of hell. And the more he does, the more people do it, the more the strict judgment increases. And when people do these things, you know, you have to know there are two kinds of wicked people. There are people who died without keeping the Sabbath, and people who died, they actually kept the Sabbath but they committed other crimes. When they go to the next world, if God sent them to hell, hell has seven sections. If they kept the Sabbath, they have a day rest. It's 14%. You have 6 days of suffering and 1 day of rest. If they didn't keep the Sabbath, even on the Sabbath day they are punished. Even though on the Sabbath there's no fire in hell, the fire is off, but they are going to see those who kept the Sabbath, how they have a day of rest and they do not even have that day day of rest, meaning there is a difference between a wicked that kept the Sabbath and a wicked that didn't keep the Sabbath is obviously allowed off. We should also know that many of the sins a person that may go to hell, hell will clean and cleanse his soul. Eventually will be cleaned out and he can be transferred to heaven based on how many good deeds he committed. But if someone is a violator violator of the Sabbath, he knew that the Sabbath is an important covenant day and ignored it and broke it and he died, it's written in the Zohar, it's brought in the book Reshit Chochmah in Masechet Geinom that he is going to the 7th section in hell, which is the lowest one, and does not come out of there for eternity. The Rambam, G-dola Poskim, the greatest Posek, writes that the biggest punishment of the human being is when G-d close in his face the gate of repentance. Meaning up to now you could repent, from now on it's too late for you. We saw it by Pharaoh. Pharaoh had warnings from Moses again and again and again. After the 6th time, God said to Moses, from this moment on, Pharaoh cannot listen to you even if he want. I lock his his heart. I made his heart strict and stiff, and from this moment on he lost his free will. Every normal person has a free will, but if God decided that this person is a lost case, he locked his free will and this person cannot repent anymore. And obviously that's a real tragedy. If a Jew starting to become traditional— until now he was completely not keeping any He begins to get involved with religion. Let's say he starts putting tefillin. His friends ask him, "What happened? You're becoming balshuva? You're becoming religious?" "No, it's only tefillin." If a person put mezuzot in his house, he didn't have mezuzot. Now he decided to put mezuzot. They ask him, "What, you're becoming religious?" "No." And they buy it. A person started to eat kosher. "What, you're becoming religious?" "No, I'm only eating kosher." Basically, every mitzvah a person will begin to do, his friends will ask him, "You become religious?" He will deny, they will believe him. Except one. If he become an observant of the Sabbath and his friend come and ask him, "What, you becoming religious?" He won't be able to say no. So from here we learn that the foundation of Judaism is to be a Shomer Shabbat, observe the Sabbath. Everything else is on top of it, just like when you build a building, 100% you have to have strong foundation and then you can make as many floors as you want. You don't have the foundation, you will never have a building. Thank you very much. I would like every one of you, please do us a favor, do something that makes God very happy, share this video to all your friends. Do not be afraid that people would say, "Oh, it's too strict, it's scary." Fear, it's a positive energy. It moves a person to do the right thing. Only in this generation, all of a sudden, everyone has found an excuse. Scary, it's scary, strict, fanatic. Nonsense. That's important and crucial information for every Jew in the world. If you love your friends, if you love your family, please share it. Make sure everyone you know is not an observant of the Sabbath will watch this video. 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