The Power of Shabbat Shuvah: A Test of Faith and Protection - Rabbi Zamir Cohen

During these days between Rash Hashana and Yom Kipur until the time of the ceiling in a year when we did not blow the chauffear, we must be even more careful about observing the Sabbath than in all other years and other Sabbaths. Therefore, any person, man, woman, boy, or girl, who knows that they do not yet observe the Sabbath at all, or do not observe it completely, keeping some parts but not others. Take this upcoming Sabbath called Shabbat Shouba, the Sabbath before Yom Kipur, and observe it properly. After 120 years, when a person reaches the world to come, they show him that he saved soldiers by observing the Sabbath and saved young men in all sorts of places. The opposite of what happened at Nova. Why? Because he observed the Sabbath. What is the essence of the Sabbath? Why did the Holy One command us to observe it? It is written in the Torah, "The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, a sign forever, the sign between me and the children of Israel. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. Observing the Sabbath is a declaration of faith. It says, "I believe the Holy One created the world, but the Holy One tells us, simply saying, you believe in me is just words. Prove it." How? By keeping the Sabbath. The Sabbath is a test of faith. That is why the Sabbath carries such great weight in Judaism. So in exchange for not blowing the chauffear by observing the Sabbath, decrees are enulled from the people of Israel. So the Sabbath is always important, but this Sabbath, let every person take upon themselves a commitment to observe it properly with the aspiration to progress further throughout the whole year. If you know you aren't observing it perfectly, try to add a little more each time. It is difficult to do everything at once. Identify the hardest parts and leave them for later. Start with what is easier, then progress until you eventually reach perfection. And regarding the Sabbath, it is said, "Everyone knows the song, for if one keeps the Sabbath, God will keep us.