Shabbat The Eternal Covenant

[Music] when it comes to shabbat a person has to understand writes i have a precious gift in my treasure in my treasure chest and it's called shabbat and i wish to present it to the am israel go and inform them meaning that gave the gift of shabbat ta'ami said even before the torah even before the torah and writes in regards to this midrash that there are many different types of precious gems in the world some which are literally priceless very few people have the means to purchase a large collection of such jewels even kings and emperors would find it difficult to obtain samples of every type of gem known to men the more powerful the king the more vast his empire is the more likely it is that he will have a larger collection of rare gems the holy one blessed be he the king of kings has access to all the treasures of gold silver and jewels in the universe but nevertheless he does not take pride in any of these and instead he has a treasure and he calls it shabbat which he called his precious gift clearly it's impossible for us to conceive its true value yet every jew has access to this precious gift all you need to do is observe the shabbat everyone should be anxious to observe it to the very best of their ability in order to gain the largest portion of the possible of this precious gift now here the fed scheme tells us that the master of all and the owner of all doesn't call everything his precious gift he calls shabbat his precious gift and i'm giving it to you a person that's wise understands that he needs to do everything possible to get as much of this gift as they can the rambam in chapter 30 number 15 writes that whoever observes the shabbat as the prescribes and honors it and indulges in its pleasure pleasures to the best of their ability will receive an abundant reward in this world in addition to the rewards set aside for him in the world to come and in the merit of observing shabbat the sins of a person can be forgiven to the extent where our sages says even someone who was an idol worshiper as people did in the generation of inus to observing the shabbat dictated will be forgiven for idol worship that's how valuable shabbat is now when you have such a treasure and someone plays with fire and says ah sometimes he cares about it sometimes he doesn't care about it sometimes he treats it carefully sometimes not so much what does that mean he doesn't understand how precious it is and that's why the rambam continues is equivalent to all of the other mitzvoth in the torah combined it's a sign of the eternal connection between the blessed holy one and us and therefore anyone who transgresses any of the other mitzvoth is still considered a jew even though they're a wicked one nonetheless still a jew but someone who publicly desecrates the shabbat is considered for all allah purposes to be on the level of a member of the idol worshiping nations so when someone can go from gaining the greatest treasure hashem has in this world to now he's about to lose it but not just lose it turn into an idol worshiper we now understand why the sages speak so harshly on sinners we now understand why mushroom benu had to kill slovkad for violating shabbat and being the first shabbat in history he killed them with the worst death penalty in front of everyone says every friday afternoon there's an announcement broadcast throughout every section of genome that all of the suffering of the sinners has to be halted but for those who didn't observe the shabbat while they were alive the fires of genome are never extinguished meaning if a person made sins and got themselves into genome but if they least kept shabbat they'll have a break on shabbat and eventually get out of genome if a person died without doing chiva for shabbat the fire never goes out not on shabbat and not ever elaborates further and says there are four different methods of executions the simplest one is which means strangulation for the more severe sins a person is executed by herrig which is decapitation by a sword but for the other more severe sins a person is executed by sepha which is burning but the most terrible form of execution in the torah is reserved for the worst possible sins which is stoning this punishment is reserved for the sin of desecrating shabbat the most terrible of all punishments that the torah prescribes says that means a murderer a murderer gets lesser of punishment than a mikhali shabbat they both get that penalty but a murderer is considered less of a sinner than a mecca there is an opinion from the that a murderer still has a share of the world to come some say he doesn't but some say he still has the share of the world to come but yet in regards to michelin shabbat everyone says across the board has no share of the world to come why because rahman said that who said wrote this in chapter 2 section there are sages taught masek about page 156 a that someone who is born on shabbat then he will die on shabbat as well but this is because he forced others to desecrate shabbat to save his life when he was born meaning he'd be born on shabbat you have to violate shabbat finn he's going to die on shabbat also why because of he forced people to desecrate shabbat for him to be born and he's uh gonna do the same when he dies now what happens if so it's not ideal it's not ideal what happens if somebody dies someone that dies on friday and gets buried banash bananas before shabbat has such a high merit there is no rebutta kevil meaning he goes straight to the bed dean of sherman no suffering in the grave at all nothing why nobody violated shabbat because of you now the sages continue saying that someone who violates shabbat is considered as if he denied the truth of the entire torah and is given the allahic status of an idol worshiper it doesn't mean that he's considered not jewish and he has to convert but rather he's considered an idol worshiper when it comes to how you treat him so for example if you have a christian friend or other types of idol worshipers and they see that you have an open bottle of wine on your counter and they pick it up that one you're not to drink it anymore why because one of the forms of idol worship in the past has been that they would give this this wine to their gods this form of idolatry so we don't know if they just picked up just to see the tag or it was really a form of idolatry we don't know we can't trust them we have to throw it out you can't even give it to your dog you can't sell it nothing not if the guy's an idol worshiper he believes in buddha he believes in some cow he believes in some human being a precious jew that turns himself into an idol worshiper by violating shabbat he touches your wine you have to treat it the same way you have to throw it out that's what it means treating him like an idol worshiper if an arab an arab skilled ad slaughtering skilled if he slaughters your cow tariff christian muslim atheist some type of buddhist whatever they are non-jew they slaughter your cow your chicken now a jew the jewish lord is the cow if he's shabbat also to eat it consideration idol worshiper not eat it you had a wedding you need two witnesses for a wedding one of your witnesses is shabbat your wedding is not valid why is not allowed to be a witness in a jewish ceremony that means that if you used a shabbat as a witness in your wedding you have to get married again a person has to understand that here you have something that's the greatest treasure that a kadoshbo who has in his treasure chest and losing it doesn't just mean you don't have it it's so precious to aka this bahu that you forsaking it is such a disregard and disrespect to him it's as if you violated the entire torah which turns the person into an idol worshiper and sampus keem ruled that this stringency applies even more to somebody who publicly performs acts on our that our sages forbid as well meaning that it doesn't have to just be a mechanic that drives the car on shabbat that's considered an idol worshiper but rather even if somebody went against the rabbinical use your phone download but just touch your phone just pick it up toilet and say that but the sages said no we have to put a fence around the fence you're not even allowed to pick up your phone you now have to pick up a pen and he says ah sagesh mages i'm gonna do whatever i want i'm not gonna turn on the phone i just wanna put it over here i'm not gonna write anything i just wanna see what it says so it's a big deal no you guys are a fanatic worshiper idol whisper why i didn't drive on shabbat rabbi i do whisper why you disregard the sages and on top being an idol worshiper is a special punishment for making fun of the sages what's the punishment person goes to tsuago takat no to a uh boiling a uh uh seed who's to be his next-door neighbor yoshiki that's where he is right because he the mama said says joshua made fun of the rabbis disregarded them that's his punishment that's punishment so a person that disregards the rabbinical meets vote takes ah it's just rabbinical rabbinical you know rabbinical is a big deal why because who says these rabbis these might these are my soldiers these are my most loyal now even though he has not desecrate he's not publicly performed any act that the torah forbids he has lost his status as a jew and is considered an idol worshiper according to and arabic 10 recounts how the leaders of the jewish people in his time a few thousand years ago signed the pact reaffirming their commitment to accept hashem as their god and to observe his mitzvot faithfully but later was discovered that the people were not faithful to this pact during the absence and were remiss concerning three of its clauses the obligation to separate tides meaning give masel from all of their produce to avoid intermarriage with women of other nations and to observe the shabbat in reaction to this nehemiah instituted various safeguards for the continued shabbat observance of the nation and he recorded this incident as follows in those days i noticed in the land of yahudah that peddlers were coming to yugoslavia from other cities to sell their wares to the residents of yerushalaim they engaged in the trade of wine grapes and figs and they purchased fish from the peddlers of teal i complained to the people saying what is this evil thing that you're doing you're bringing the wrath of god unto the people of islam by desecrating shabbat meaning these people were doing business on shabbat he says what you think that you're doing business on shabbat it's just going to affect you no no wrath of god is going to come on everybody your body being shabbat everybody's going to get punished it's not just you why number one they're allowing it to happen number two they're not rebuking you number three everybody's connected you violate shabbat somebody else gets hurt too if you violate shabbat and on the news you hear some jewish soldier got killed don't think twice it's your fault don't do what's your fault no i didn't kill him well you didn't save him either he didn't say neither tsunami heard jewish people your fault corona kill people your fault no mistake no it's not don't like taking no no no it's not your fault you're a murderer you you kill people don't don't blame the arab that uh that killed the uh the jewish soldier don't blame him he's just a little pawn that hashem uses to do his will what allowed this arab to murder a jewish soldier the people that are sinning people that are violating shabbat people that are wasting seed people that are changing the bed dean of shamim and changing all types of stupid things that they say against the torah like there's no relevance of 13 principles of faith god needs us homosexuality is no longer an abomination all types of nonsense that mannis friedman and his friends say people changed allah make the torah to some type of an opinion book says i bring wrath to the world you hear about jewish people dying don't think for a second of anything else whose fault it is their fault all of those people all of those people sometimes those people are religious sometimes they're secular sometimes they mahal shabbat sometimes they're shamil shabbat but they make other sins point being wrath comes to the world because of sins not because hashem has nothing to do so nehemiah tells the people that by violating shabbat you're bringing the wrath of god on to the jewish people when the shadows of darkened the gates of yerushalayim before shabbat i gave an order to the doors being to be locked and shut and that they were not to be open until after shabbat i ordered the doors of the city be locked so that the peddlers would not enter the city to sell their wares the peddlers remained encamped outside yehushalam once or twice and i said to them why are you camped by the wall if you will do this again i will raise my hand against you from then on they no longer came on shabbat i then proclaimed please my god remember this good deed for me and have mercy on me as befits your abundant the prophet nehemiah tells these people if you come to yerushalayim again i'm going to raise my hand what does that mean when the prophet tells you i'm going to raise my weight exam first fight prophet is saying if you come here on shabbat and say one word you're all going to die what would i say to hashem you're going to die instantly says that there was a large populated city named tushimon its greatness lay in the fact that every friday they produced an enormous amount of loaves of bread to distribute to the poor people nevertheless in the in the end the city was sacked and destroyed why did this happen they gave a lot of stakka organization gives a lot of stuck up people think ah there's such teddy keem look how much good they're doing why are you speaking against them all the time they have halal parties hanukkah parties they helped no they're good so we had the command says yeah there are many other people in the past that had hala parties and hanukkah parties and donate a lot of money they did yeah plenty of those people who destroyed them anyway why why did this happen says it was because the people of the town had a practice of playing with a ball on shabbat they like to shoot hoops they could shoot hoops on shabbat those because you want to shoot oops no problem i'll destroy everything section 7 what the torah was not given to us as a suggestion book the shabbat was not given to us as something we can choose to take or not take who says this is the greatest gift i have don't spit in my face honor it say so why did hashem give us the shabbat for what are we supposed to do learn torah not play with balls what are you a dog if you want to be a dog ask a shame who please please bring me back as a ghoul of a dog i want to play with balls all day my master will throw a tennis ball go i get a ball i come back back maybe i'll jump into a pool get the ball i ask bring you back as a dog as you can go no problem you want to play with a bombshell but just ask a chef just make me a dog and that's it but if you want to be a jew you can't play with balls on shabbat why says an entire city not a family not a person an entire city full of millions of people millions of people was destroyed because people were playing basketball abraham it's absolutely frightening to contemplate this passage in its message about the sanctity of shabbat after all even those poschem who ruled that it's forbidden to play with balls on shabbat agree that it's only because the balls are mukte and it's forbidden only by our sages yet this sin caused the destruction of an entire metropolis of tor shimon despite the great merit of the charity that the people of that city distributed regularly furthermore from the very fact that they distributed the loaves on friday we see that these people honor the shabbat meaning they kept shabbat because they gave the khala on on friday which means it was connected to the shabbat these people was shabbat they did not kindle fire on shabbat nor did they bake or carry from place to place on shabbat these weren't like people that were driving to the boca raton synagogue they weren't driving they weren't working on shabbat why are they going to [Applause] it's likely that they observe the rules of much regarding all other items this one detail they ignored brought this massive terrible massacre why they ignored what the sages said one thing everything else they kept everything they kept says it's too precious of a gift it's too precious of a gift for you to mistreat it it's too presence of a gift you can't throw a diamond that's worth a hundred million dollars in the air like a ball needless to say you can't throw the king's daughter in the air when you're on a hundred story building and on the balcony or it's too precious of a gift to take any risks two pressures of a gift last thing and then we'll get the questions in in if a jew does not observe shabbat he lowers himself to less than the status of a dumb beast to achieve atonement he must be stoned to death if he is not stoned the connection of his soul with god and his torah the bond between god and the nation of israel will be severed permanently therefore executing him with stoning is actually doing him a great favor giving him the worst possible death penalty at the time of the sunday we can't execute these things today is doing him my favor why at least his soul will not be permanently severed from hashem this genome will end at some point but since we do not have the san andreas anymore we can't execute this so in his mercy he says even though we don't have the same the death penalty still apply so when you see a person cut into a plane crash alone car accident fell out of a building that's stoning that's stoning so why who says i gave you the greatest treasure i gave you the greatest thing what did you do you spin in my face why because you want to play with a ball you want to drive on shabbat yeah but the the school is too far from my house don't go there is no commandment to go to synagogue there is a commandment to keep shabato and a person needs to understand that when it comes to shabbat it is not a suggestion who says you have to understand it's such a precious gift this gift of shabbat if you observe it not only is it going to reward you in the next world not only is it going to reward you in this world with panasa with sheifa which slump a lot of things slow by all types of wonderful things common shabbat your torah learning is counted a thousand fold when you learn on shabbat versus the rest of the week so much so that some of the sages would literally not go to sleep on shabbat not to waste a single minute and learn the whole time but on top of all this the shabbat is one of the greatest chuva tools in the world why just by keeping shabbat it's repenting for many of your sins as great as the ones as i do worship so it's so much loss that unless hashem tells you and promises you and he can't break his promise that the punishment is going to be the most severe of all punishments you're not going to take it seriously he says you cannot afford this loss you could afford other losses you could afford to lose 100 grand you could afford to uh lose a foot you could afford to lose an eye you can lose or afford to lose a lot of things you cannot afford to lose shabbat because if you lose shabbat you lost everything your chuva will never happen your reward simply goes into the garbage your panasan sheikh all the things you were supposed to get will never have you may make a lot of money but you'll never have blessing all that money will go to bills taxes lawsuits hashem is and we're not even just talking about the biblical sins like driving on shabbat that's a needless to say you light a fire on shabbat it's obvious you're going against hashem mamash like war and one of my students is an engineer tells me no no rabbi you made a mistake you're saying that someone drives a car is lighting a fire it's wrong it's not lighting a fire rabbi it's lighting thousands of fires so what do you mean he says okay let me give you a graph he gives me a grab four five years ago this is what it is from zero to 60 miles per hour for every approximately 15 minutes it's something like 60 000 fires that you lit that means you violated about 60 thousand times just by going from your house to the traffic light by time you got to the stroll 20 minutes later a chevy you need a miracle to get out of this genome that you put yourself into so what allah do i said listen i have a gift for you what's the gift shabbat yeah i was violating it till now okay keep it so what am i doing but the past first of all you keeping it that already helps that already helps but better yet it's going to help you purify yourself purify your mind you can understand a big secret i have in the world it's called kirov get other people to keep shabbat take one of these cds take one of these 10 cent flyers take one of the usbs take one of the free online lectures share it with somebody share this clip right now with your friend that's not keeping shabbat with your friend that is keeping shabbat but not exactly as he should or even he's keeping aji sure but he needs a little more anyway share this with everybody like spam mail everyone buy a list of a hundred thousand jews and send them all emails every single week about shabbat if you have to why every single time you get one of these people to keep shabbat guess what every one of the shabbat that they're going to keep for the rest of their life makes up for your shabbat in the past so instead of showing up to shamayim as someone that keeps shabbat but still has 20 30 years of shabbat so you have 30 years of shabbat violation as a deficit you're still missing what do you call this remind with a surplus of thousands of shabbat while you send people the emails you send people the cds you send people the posters you invested in kirov you didn't do anything you just gave us money to do it whatever you did but you did something on a regular basis that got people to keep shabbat every single person that keeps shabbat from that point on goes to your account every week it's like you're keeping a hundred two hundred three hundred four hundred shabbats in a matter of six months you've completed chewbacca twenty thirty years of shabbat and from that moment on everything is extra when you go up to allah guess what not only you're going to have an endless but guess what people just like they pray to and baranes for their merit please hashem please please to for the merit of mushroom for the merit of please help me why because extra merits people are going to pray for the merit of whom for the merit of shimon that he got so many people to do please help me because you have so many merits because you've got so many people to do cuba instead of going up there with a deficit you go up there with a merit now no one's praying to you but rather using your merit and a person that goes up to shaman with a surplus there's no one in the world that's more lucky than him [Music] so [Music] you