WORKING ON SHABBAT (A BeEzrat HaShem Inc. Film)

if you are Jewish currently there's no question whatsoever you are not allowed to violate Shabbat for any job in the world unless your job is Saving Lives literally you're a doctor a surgeon of some kind uh you know something that has to do with saving lives on a regular basis if it's not if you just let's say I don't know some type of engineer or sanitation department or whatever regular job you have there is no permission whatsoever for you to violate the tah and violate Shabbat no permission so you have to tell your job I'm sorry I'm not going to be able to work on Fridays uh past afternoon let's say 12:00 1:00 in the afternoon cuz I got to get home for Shabbat and pray to hem that they let you do it and even if they don't you do it anyway I have a guy that uh years ago maybe six years ago he was working at AT&T and uh before he met me he was an atheist after three lectures he was already keeping mitv but he had a problem with Shabbat why because the company was working for to time uh AT&T uh had a schedule where a where a uh you know he would work on Shabbat that was a schedule they gave him he would work every Shabbat and so he would keep Shabbat on Friday night but then he would go to work on on Saturday because he said if you don't come in he asked him can you let me go on Shabbat and he said no you have to work that's your schedule uh you know you you have to get uh to work you know so after that he told what do I do I told him you don't show up you can't work on Shabbat you can't he said yeah but they're going to fire me I said let them fire you if they fire he goes I'm going to eat I said hashm is the one that's going to decide whether you eat it took him a little while to get the guts to do it uh but one day he decided that he's not going to go he asked the boss can I take off Shabbat the boss rejected him again so he just simply didn't show up onat he turned on his phone had a bunch of messages where are you where are you where are you the next he figured that when he goes back to work that next day Sunday he's going to get fired he walked into the office into the thing and he sat at his desk for a little bit before going on the field and the boss came to him and said where were you yesterday said I told you I told you I can't work on Shabbat he says listen don't ever do that again I'm going to fire you and he had again the courage to say listen it's not about you it's I'm not trying to go against you I'm just saying I can't work on Shabbat it's my religion and the guy was nasty to him saying listen you do that again I'm going to fire you so the conversation ended it that way the next week again he didn't show up again he didn't show up the uh boss called him a few more times not as much as the week before the next day he said you did it again listen I'm I'm G I'm giving you one last chance you're a good guy I like you you do good work but I'm going to fire you if you keep doing it the next week he did it again boss was on vacation didn't say nothing he's on vacation next week he did it again he was on vacation again the next week when the boss was back he came back he did it again no calls this time what happened boss didn't say nothing anymore after 3 months he was already keeping Shabbat already for a few months and the boss didn't tell him anything anymore and after about 3 months Hashem gave him some success in a few different things a few customers wanted to do business with him he ended up opening his own company you know may ended up making a lot more money for honoring the sh gave a lot of so that's the thing if you're a Jew there's no permission whatsoever for you to violate Shabbat not by a minute not by an hour not by nothing no permission if you're not Jewish and you want to convert then obviously you have to make uh arrangements for you to change somewhere down the road but you don't have to quit your job now you don't have to quit your job now because you're technically you're not obligated to keep Shabbat uh cuz you're not Jewish so uh but if you're a Jew you have to uh keep shabat 100% [Music]