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The Power of Shabbat Shuvah: A Test of Faith and Protection - Rabbi Zamir Cohen
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Rabbi Zamir Cohen explains the importance of Shabbat, and specifically Shabbat Shuvah. ——————————- As part of Hidabroot’s Two Shabbats campaign, Jews around the world were invited to keep two Shabbats together at the start of the new year. The first has passed — and this Shabbat Shuvah is the second. Join us and make this Shabbat count. 🤍 Learn more at www.hidabroot.com
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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.