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Oorah's Torah Spot Live 6/5/12: "Shabbos"- The Most Holy ...And The Most Misundertood
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For lecture material go to: [http://www.oorah.org/handouts/shabbat.pdf] Oorah's founder, Rabbi Chaim Mintz, giving his weekly lecture from The Torah Spot in Staten Island on Tuesday, June 5th, 2012. This weeks topic was "Shabbos, The most holy, most profaned, most precious, and the most misunderstood".
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gives me great pleasure to introduce to
you our very own rabbi hayem
[Applause]
was scary to me
just say the Republican tells us that
God was good to us
that he gives us inventions for us to
learn from and get the right ideas from
we know that God watches over everything
that we do he sees all he hears all
knows all some people say how's that
possible
look for these machines
every little thing we're doing it's
recorded everything we say recorded so
it's not so hard for God to move
to us and gives us a visual aid to be
able to realize that he's watching all
the time and everything we're doing is
written down in a book and it's
remembered nothing's forgotten just like
the machine like this nothing's
forgotten it's all there every action
every word
okay
we are in the middle of discussing
the fourth
statement
said in the tenth of Mount Sinai
Johnson
remember that then Shabbos
to make it holy
and we said last week that contains two
ideas one is the Chalice itself to make
Kiddush
to make a boundary between coil and
Shabbos when it comes in
the weak and Holiness to make the
boundary now it's coming to make the
boundary which happens goes out to make
Abdullah to say till here it was Shabbos
from now on it's not Travis anymore
it's one thing's offer another Zucker
means the whole week before to remember
about Chavez
on one hand used to buy
something good for Shabbos the first day
second day if you found something better
you either buy something else and so on
remember to Shabbos from the for the for
the time that we have made up dollar
after shot is still not Shabbos remember
Travis the whole time
because he wants to remember God's in
charge he's the boy ready he's the
Creator he watches what we're doing
hello on the other hand said no I'm not
going to keep it I faith God becomes
Shabbos he take care of me I'll have
something very good for the Shabbos
somebody spoke about that last week
now we come to Lotus has to come along
do not do any activities or actions
we have in our
number one actions and facts
I presented last week the question why
Shoppers is probably the stepson of all
the other Commandments in the Ten
Commandments
everything else people are very
careful about aware of
everybody stands up with survivals
you don't swear falsely anybody
understands that to use the name of God
in vain
and with parents
don't kill them don't kidnap all these
things people understand come to Shabbos
for some reason people are very relaxed
about it why is that so somebody we have
different ideas I gave up the question
out to the audience over here we have
different ideas one of the ideas was
people don't really know which happens
is all about
what's included what's with the hip
shops
so in order to intervene
give
the right idea and understanding
we have to go to the root of things this
is not known to people what you're not
allowed to do in chapter
the first time we talked about it
sometimes it worked Allah has worked on
something hard work the strongest switch
is not how it worked
and that's the false interpretation of
Shabbos
what is forbidden to do in jobs
so number one in our glasses she can
says Lambert test Alliance
there are 39 forbidden actions and
Shabbos
that sounds very scary
39 forbidden actions we'll be able to
live to move
but
we'll talk about that soon but what are
these 39 forbidden actions
not work
mistranslated as 39 works of Shoppers
does not work
action
which actions
these
forbidden actions are taken from number
three
as we mentioned many times before the
Jewish people in the desert when they're
going from Egypt to land of Israel they
went there for 40 years before they
arrived the land of Israel they left
Egypt that's we have the holiday PESA
Exodus from Egypt they stayed in the
desert for 40 years until they reached
the Holy Land
and during that time they built a
Michigan
a mission to the sanctuary a holy
building but God says I will dwell in
your midst in that Michigan
and to make that mission
there were different actions necessary
to put it together
and those actions that were linked up to
make that fish go
which were 39
those are the Forbidden actions that we
were not allowed to do no shots
we'll talk about later what the
connection is why Shoppers has to do
with with doing actions in the Michigan
but that Michigan that was built in the
desert
it was built through 39
actions
and those actions are the things that
are forbidden on Shabbos
Now to turn over
the glass machine on the back
we made a list of the 39
forbidden Belize
now
I'd like to go through them quickly
if you have the patience I think I find
it interesting
but we have other philosophy sheet in
number
two
other boys
and told us
fathers and offspring
fathers me
father
forbidden actions and tells me they
asked me forbidden action so what does
that mean
the father is that you trust him in the
main ones
the main actions that the Torah prepared
us to do on Shabbos and then we have
secondary ones
called The Offspring like you have a
father and a son father is that was the
main one the son is one of the secondary
so we have this 39 actions that are
forbidden but underneath that heading we
have subheadings of other actions
that have the same Principle as the
others of the main one as we'll see soon
but it's different but the same
principle that we're accomplishing with
that told us with that Offspring with
that secondary one we're accomplishing
the same idea as the others of the
fathers of the main ones
let me see so so when we go through the
39 below this
they all have told us the main ones and
then executive numbers are going to all
the secondary once include the next week
we go through everything naturally but
just to give an idea I'll give a few
examples as we go through it
now as we're going through something
says what
was able to go and take upon himself to
okay
away and refrain through all these
things at Shops
well the sun is not used to it it's
difficult somebody's used to it it's
very simple
somebody's used to it grew up with it
that's a way of life come Shabbos you
just know you don't do certain things
a person who did not grow up with it to
take upon himself all of a sudden all
the laws of Shabbos
would not be helpless it was almost
impossible and that was advisable
but
a person is interested
can think to himself or maybe something
a little bit something I take upon
myself
to not to do a certain
maybe it's a part of Shabbos certain one
of the 39 what are the 39 the part of
the chapters
that's also something people some have
the wrong impression to think it's
everything enough
people don't keep childish think well if
I keep only part of it I'm a hypocrite
because if I keep Shabbos I keep
everything and that's not true
because every
detail of Shoppers that's kept is the
thing in itself it's like tell a person
um
won a million dollars yeah
okay outside of the on the grounds
they're pulling down let's go and take
them because somebody took a half a
million back and you get the whole
building forget about the afternoon and
be able to think like that and get the
whole thing once you get that half a
million yeah you have the whole thing
anybody says that he has to go to his
local psychologist who is the treatment
list
even the smallest amount of keeping it
is diamonds it's very special it's a
mitzvah you don't have to do everything
or nothing
the Judaism we don't say everything or
nothing everything that's done is
important and God is very happy so to
speak with the person really starts
keeping Chaps in the small way
so let's take a look at this malacas
to get an idea to know what it's all
about
it's the 39th of verse the man was the
father is the office beloved instead of
written down over here
and number one
is
surveya planting
now planting
people look at it like you're putting
seeds in the ground
to planting something
that is
the place of
but on top of that
I told them that is
pruning
pruning a tree
she said what food do you have to do
with plenty
because it cut off dead branches
and therefore the tree goes better
so you're not
planting something but what's the idea
and what is the principle of planting
seeds making something grow
so if you prune the tree and it grows
better so you're making it grow better
so that's called a Tumblr it's called
The Offspring a second third if you
water a plant
a Chavez right so I'm not playing
without putting seeds in the ground but
I'm not planting yes but you're making
it grow so that's a tell them use a wrap
planting itself is the father of Allah
is the main one but
secondary
which has the same principle watering it
makes it grow better therefore that's
considered like planting so therefore
that will also be prevented that's how
it goes all throughout the three of a
lot of us that you have to make one the
secondary ones which have the same
Principle as the main one
harich
the plow
allowing means that you make a hole in
the ground
where you could put the seeds into for
the seeds to grow
flower
who is we know the farmers used to have
a accent pulling a a big spike he used
to go and go from road to row making a
referrals in the grounds called furrows
they make a long hole in the ground and
the Earth comes out on the sides to put
the seats in the ground and push the
Earth back onto the seats
Chloe Rich plowing might be that hole in
the ground to put the seeds in that's
called plowing and that is one of the
three that belongs
pudding
cutting a plant that is growing
that means you're cutting off the plant
from its
root of life worth living from
living from the ground cutting it off
so that's Kaiser that's cutting this for
business hours
so anything a person will do to stop
something from growing
by stepping on something and killing the
root whatever it might be stopping from
your industrial coincidence
[Music]
because you are stopping the growth of a
plant
a person
who
takes off cuts down is
wheat in the field or the apples in The
Orchards and the spread around the field
and together together to one pile that's
called you can't do that in the field
with a lot of different plants that are
spread around together to get in the
middle of the field is forbidden
then we have gosh which is threshing
threshing because we're not Farmers now
because we don't know what these things
are threshing is when it comes to uh
Gray
you know thrush apples around it's fresh
grape because gray has
the husks and the uh the
the shell
that conceals the inner kernels
look like popping popcorn if you saw
them we see around in the Bible before
popping popcorn these Carlos look like
kernels of of these uh of course
they are contained inside of the chiefs
of the wheat and to get to them you have
to that's really where the flower is the
outside Shilling kitchen far from the
shelves you have to get into those
kernels very hard and get to them and
take out the kernels how do you do that
the inside of the sloughed up inside of
the shell of the plant of the windshield
plant so what they bang it because they
do with machines but the old times it's
the same principle you take a
hard object and bend and bang on the
sheets on the shelves until it loosens
up and brings out the
kernels of wheat from inside
so that's consult Dutch that's what this
show that's that's called threshing
and of what we learned from over there
tell them of that is milking a cow
milking a cow so you're doing the same
principle you're taking the milk which
is contained inside of the animal inside
where the milk is and your
squeezing it up so this is something
which is considered number line because
it's the same principle you're taking
something that's swallowed to something
else bringing it out from its shell what
is it swelling into
the same way a mother's milk on Shabbos
if
some reason the Google has to get rid of
the milk the baby's not nursing enough
whatever it is and there's a lot of time
there's a question of of you how are you
allowed to do that at the same time
we have unlocked and if an animal for
instance you know let's say uh it's a
lot of time a lot of pain and the animal
does they don't look at the cow the cow
is about a baby when they have too much
milk it's a lot of pain for the cow so
we're allowed to Milk The Cow Within the
milk goes on the ground you can't put it
in the vessel because that's considered
that you're a
transgressing but it goes to the ground
the same way a woman also to squeeze out
the milk there's a lot of a lot of
magnets that doesn't it doesn't keep it
so that's considered awesome
thing but they said again we have the
name of Dutch of taking something which
is contained inside and bring it out
that's the addition
Zara
so it was a winner wink
whatever it means
that to give a good example of it after
the
kernels are separated from the shells
how to get rid of the shells to get to
the kernels
shells of every light
they blow away easily kernels are hard
much heavier
so what the farmers used to do
and today they do the same thing with
machines naturally that would go inside
of the barn
and two doors will be opened from the
two sides and the wood would blow
through us they take the pitch fork and
shovel up the kernels with the shell and
since the shells are very light the wood
would blow them away and the Carlos was
having to fall down on the ground
so therefore that's how they would
separate the kernels from the chap from
The Silence from the from the uh
shells so that's a molecular called
designer called winnowing by throwing it
into the wind and it would blowing away
which you don't want and you keep what
you do want so they left these kernels
that we have to get to
before
getting too Technical and still
interested to hear it
okay
if I see people falling asleep
just fall asleep and they'll stop for
them don't do it
I thought it's pretty interesting to go
through it quickly
we have a separating selecting
that is another process of
refining the miraculous as a matter of
fact at the uh for the player is
refining the process of winnowing
winnowing takes away most of the chef
most of the shells but some of it falls
together with the kernels bodywear means
refining that by taking away all of them
purelys away from the kernels that's
called word choosing selecting
and that has to do with that's one of
the hardest laws to perform on Shabbos
to be careful with the Body Works you're
not supposed to take away the soilless
stuff but you don't want from what you
do want you're supposed to take what you
want from what you don't want that you
don't want you to do what and for
instance if you have to fly that goes
into your cup on the or into your soup
you're not supposed to take out the fly
because the boiler you take out the
bread from the good
so we have to pour off the soup from the
bowl and leave the fly there it's like
good from the bed or we can do is take
some of the soup along with it with the
fly take a big spoon there spoons and
text if you take some of the good with
the bad it's also too many but that's a
total done again I'd say
tell that a sun Offspring a secondary
choosing bad from good he would take him
from the
field
upgrade and apply good to be sitting at
a shopping table with the same principle
he would talk about in the field though
you think well what does it have to do
what they want to meet at the farmers no
because we have to consider that what we
do our daily uh activities on Shabbos
and we have to be careful that there's a
principle of boiler we don't transgress
now toy thing is grinding
those
pieces
wheat the kernels
they contain the nice white flour inside
but the flower is surrounded by this
kernel a hard shell
we don't see those candles around today
something like
a nut
you have to crack open the shell to get
inside to the meat of the nut
except the other inside of the nut is
hard hear the flower inside this nice
white pure flower how do you get to it
you have to grind
the
shells of the kernels they put on the
grinder and the grinds the shells and
therefore it releases the flower that's
toasting it's grinding
the same way and Shabbos we have to be
careful
making different types of food
and you want to prepare something for
Shabbos to grind up the tomatoes and
grind up these kind of very small or the
Cucumbers whatever it is this is
something that has to be dealt with it's
not only in the field the kernels but
the same principle applies to grinding
something up like into small pieces
don't think
Meraki
because now the flower
is mixed in with all these shells they
ground together you ground up everything
together the kernels the ground up and
now the flower and the shells are mixed
together and just like before when you
make the threshing so the curdles will
mix together with the chaff with the
shells of the wheat now you've got a
little further now you have the flour
mixed together with the kernels and what
the with the shells of the kernels you
got to separate the flour from the
kernels
so what do you do with that we're lucky
you have to sift it put in the sifter
well today they have the big meals today
they have these gigantic sifters
naturally bakeries whatever it is but a
lot of alobusters they sift the flour
before they use it but here they often
sift out the Cardinals we went out we
get flour today it's all sifted already
but on the farm and in the factories
they are separating they
they chop up the kernels with the flour
and then sift out the flowers the
kernels the flower comes down the bottom
and fill the stain in the sifter that's
Meraki so this we have to be careful not
to sift things in chapters sometimes you
have something that impure some pieces
got into something they want separate
the pieces from the drink that you want
to have whatever it might be so again
you can be sitting at your shopping
table but to separate the uh
what you don't want you do want to
accept it you can't do that
then we come to Russia kneading now you
have the nice white flower ready to bake
with it
so you take the flour and you put water
into it we put eggs into it what liquid
you put apple juice whatever happens
with this flour and you knead it and you
mix it up into a batter
it must be done to my hand today use
your electric mixer most people use
today those bubbles used to lose their
hands with the metal and the dough but
today people have mixed sense but
however you do it that is the Abalone of
lush of mixing together flour and water
and the iFit the banking
then Detective better than you
mixed up
and you put it into the oven and that is
the end of that
process for making bread
11. Allah as we went through this now 11
will love us that's one process of
making bread from the time that you
plant in the plow until the time to get
out of the oven
there's 11
actions that have to be done and in the
mishkan
they did baking they end up the special
12 breads they put in the shulka on the
table in the Holy Temple in the Michigan
sanctuary in the mid border they had a
midst of them to put on the table there
was a table there that and the holy
table manner of gold coming to gold and
they had 12 breads on that table the
whole week was there six and six of the
breads put on their table six bedroom
and one step stopped up and six of the
other one and that was kept there a
whole week was taken off in Shabbos
has 12 Reds
if you ever notice in the bakery
when the two breads that you that you
have so that's to remember one of the
things to remember the two piles and the
six yeah
you'll notice that there's six pieces to
it that they some of the round ones you
can pull off the pieces or some of the
long ones sexual section how it's called
section he said what is that sexual
column vitamination usually made because
a lot that that that their brain in the
colors that's the reason why I'm making
bread come to that later but why is
sectional colors because each of those
six by six so these six and six like a
mission that you have six and six with
twelve remembering the 12 breads that
when the Michigan that they ate because
the priests took off every Shabbos and
ate it and uh that we remember those 12
by the sections some usually was that
but some people use sexual thousand
remember some of the 12.
so that's one process of baking bread
then we start another process
of
number 12 youth base
this is the process of making clothing
and we start off God is there is
temporary by sharing the will of the
Sheep
so that's
about Allah that's the beginning you
gotta get the world in order to
eventually get the Mulan
clothing that you want to make the first
step is by shearing off the wall from
the Sheep
and guy's eyes could be a question also
of a person has a an object and he wants
to think sticking out of it maybe a
hairy a kind of uh of a piece of
clothing that he wants to get rid of the
threats coming out and cut off the
threads that's like taking off the wolf
and the Sheep it's going to go to the
category organization that that's the
that's the total that's the secondary
foreign
the sheep that go through all kinds of
mud all kinds of things that get onto
the world so you have to clean it you
have to clean it off and make sure
that's nice and clean before you
continue to continue the process that's
what you're not allowed to do with the
washing Choppers because if this is to
clean because clothes don't get dirty
you're not allowed to put in the washing
machine to to wash because of the milk
well I've been cleaning it just like to
clean the wool that's the average they
told them a lot has to clean clothing
would be the toilet that monopolites
then you have to come Tangled well in
order before you start the
the spinning
spinning into threats and if you ever
saw these old
kids in the school that take them to uh
to show the old buddies make thread the
weaving you saw I don't know what is the
meaning they had a big wheel that that
takes the fibers of the wool you have to
come up the wall to make it straight
make it clean it's great and it's fibers
of the world take those fibers and then
and they split them together to make
threats because they fired himself a too
weak they're very thin hairy uh pieces
of from from the wolf from the Sheep you
can't work with them you can't wait for
it you have to make threads out of it
take a bunch of fibers and they split it
together in the spinning wheel and
that's called tiver but before that we
have severe dying is the diet first
before the golden color they want to
make the clothing out from the from the
eventually they went clothing out of
this this wall so they I did the color
that they wanted to have the particular
piece of clothing to be surveyor which
you cannot
dye things and showers color things and
showers
thank you
it's a question of sometimes of
of using a a piece of cloth
and
putting
spilling something out of their custom
why there's something on the cloth that
you don't want to color the cloth with
such things like that so that's a
toddler even though the main upper
Locker was the wolf that you died but
you told us we're sitting at the table
we have to be careful not to color any
any cloth or something something like
that now let's say it puts against
bloody nose
a lot of take a a napkin and get the
blood from your nose he says
the the tissue but that's not forbidden
because that's called there let's look
you don't really want to color it in
the tissue something that's disgusting
they don't rather not do it see not
calling them into the dying the tissue
just over to the garbage afterwards
that's not called die dying means
something that they want to be died you
keep it and something that is important
to you something that you died again
just because you couldn't help it and
the bloody nose and throated but it's
not going to die
so we have an updates surveilla and toy
there is spinning these fibers into
threats
Mesa
on the loom and have you ever saw alone
before everywhere we're sending people
we don't see these things anymore
they're in the museums they have the old
Blooms Today they have electric ones
naturally good moves in the big
factories but they work the same
principle but you have Baloo which is a
Wheeling machine
such with the development explained to
now I protect people from the between
how the weaving machine works but just
to be very brief about it on the loom
you put threads going in One Direction
you set the room which is red in what
direction and then you take a uh uh I
forget the color that takes the threads
and puts it through in and out the uh of
the threads going into the length you go
to West to the width the threads that go
in and out so the threads going to the
length that's how that's how all of our
clothing is made today they have the
machines that do it real fast you can
even notice what's happening but that's
really what's happening we can't even
see it almost but it have threads going
in One Direction Another Direction and
setting up the loom that's Mesa
that is not permitted seven threads unto
the Moon
stay button even two adults those are
pieces of the Loom that you put the
threads into
and setting those things up on the loom
is forbidden as you sped out spreading
out the threads and the loom is
forbidden and putting making the uh loop
it's like a loop on the loop a loop that
you put the threads in that Loop is
called stay but the near do not make
this
and if you start weaving two threads The
Weave the whipping itself
or
person breaks open
two threats something didn't go right
and the weaving you have to go back and
get
start over in that particular place it
didn't work out nicely on the loop so
you have to break out those threads and
go back and do it again breaking the
threads
or two
making that
or to untie a knot
that would be no shoes we're allowed to
do that because it's a loop just with
one uh pulling of the thread it comes
apart that's not called making a knot
and that would be making two knots one
on top of the other making a bow on top
of the knot it's not called making a
knot therefore it's not forbidden but
the person with one for some reason make
two knots on the shoe that you might
have to start slapping and pulling it
out that's not making enough or untying
it up
or somebody makes two stitches
sewing something up a a piece of
clothing that has a tear in it let's say
and you're making stitches or you're
putting a button on the on a piece of
clothing
or if you're tearing
a piece of cloth with the intention of
sewing it up afterwards because this
timing itself
ruining something is not called has to
be something that's
it's going to be something positive
tearing and destroying is not forbidden
on jobs only
building they're making something
important so if you tear something in
order to make it better
so that is the process just finished of
making clothing
so I'm still awake
so at the next I'm going to go through
real fast
the next one is the leather making
process
hunting
the deer catching an animal which is
very apropos people have a pet but not a
catch your pet from Shabbos
uh pets usually considered permitted
because they don't run away from you
they're not catching them if it's a
domesticated animal it's not called
catching them because they're not
running away so it's not called catching
slaughtering an animal it's not this
forbidden that's why it puts the same
thing to make a cut in somebody for some
reason and The Cutting is like slowing
getting I think a lot coming up
massive to skip the animal
yeah
to tear the end of the skin of the end
of the tenant to the process with the
salt on the chemicals to make the skin
into leather
and to make a line on it to see now you
make the parchment to make parchment
over here we're talking about xiva
actually coming eventually to writing so
you take they used to use them then make
paper with parchments they got from the
skins of an animal so they caught the
animal they had a Slaughter it had a
skin it had to make it into parchment
and now we make lines on it to see how
to write on it well those lines that
were forbidden
and mamatic and you rub off the extra
flesh that's on that skin that you don't
want to Flesh on the skin so you rub it
off that would be a question of using
cell phone shop is rubbing the sofa
making it smaller you're bubbling the uh
the the impurities on that lead on the
height of the animal that is rubbing it
off that's called The Magic
then you cut it into a certain size of
uh that you want to use them for riding
on the Carter cardigan that would be a
question of uh instead taking some a
tablet and cutting out the paper from it
possibly that would be macate and
cutting out a piece of paper into two
you want to use half of the papers
because I say writing
to
letters
erasing
and this is the process of writing
starting catching the deer and using the
skin to write off and now we go to
miscellaneous
different types of malaka bind up to
build something to build a building
or to build something that's much
smaller than the building
uh sugar
well it's okay but yeah
but sometimes
you to build that sounds a question
about that
kids who they have their blocks that's
not called building they're building
blocks because they come apart by the
way very easily with no balls it's also
not considered building anything making
something snowball but they come apart
by the way they know that the throttle
kids having a good time
so sir taking apart of building
extinguishing a fire on Shabbos or a
Marvel to making a fire in Chavez
remarkable patish to a final touch
completing an object
that means let's say the person in the
factory makes a silver cup
but the Final Touch is to shine it up to
make it shiny you wouldn't sell it until
he signs it up to make it look nice
so the
making of the Cup itself would be by the
building the market of party should put
the final touch to it you strand it up
it was real nice that's called a
marketable package and I might see the
last one is taking out from one domain
to enough for public domain to private
domain or private proposal domain that
is called moitzy that's called carrier
what we call it
or carrying in the fundament from one
place to the other you cannot carry from
your house into the street swing into
your house that's called what number 39.
so these in case somebody said before
what is it all about
this was all about
wow technology
what shop is like a straight jacket you
can't do anything can't move
so
to that I answered
number four Shabbos
Shabbos
is
gives a feeling of the world to come
contrary to a person who doesn't
have the background
to keep showers
and it feels that these things send
something very difficult to accomplish
to keep
they have to realize
like I said before something can be done
thinks it's a process
but a person can feel on Shabbos the
enjoyment the warmth the pleasure May
anger the map up like the pleasure of
the world to come
which is the biggest pleasure that God
has in store for the Jewish people
the world to come where the shovel our
soul is going to make contact with God
the person who keeps Shabbos you
mentioned last week
is out of this world
he's not in the world the mundane world
is in the whole week where other people
are he's in his own world connecting to
God
shop is an egg out of my book it may
seems to me that people are keeping them
but those people can never support
people keep Shabbos they must be so sad
so difficult probably when she happens
to go away really
and let me tell you a person who felt
Shoppers kept Shabbos
you feel very sad which happens goes
away
because it's such a pleasure such a good
feeling you're connecting to God
we're away from all the mundane actions
all these things we mentioned before
well out of this world we're not writing
we're not Burling we're not cooking
we're not washing we're not we're in a
different world the world to come we
want to have all these things they won't
be there watching the cookie and eating
all they say no on the shower I still be
cut I think with God connected to him
all his actions will be performed in the
world to come
to be just the pleasure of connecting to
God
and that's
what Chavez really is
we're refraining from doing mother and
physical actions
that were
the three things that we have to think
about the Shabbos number five what makes
it what makes up is so wonderful so
sweet so enjoyable it's a wonderful
three things number one we just said now
we take ourselves out of this one day
physical world and we connect with God
we're not connect to the world anymore
almost and then we have find the Shabbos
the pleasure of undish opposite to
mitzvah for a person to eat good food
and Shabbos
to do things that make you feel good on
Shabbos because it's food taking a nice
walk
sitting with the family around the table
how many people a chance to do that
people come to the shopping table hey
this is great people have a chance to
sit with
running and doing cell phones and
they're running to their friends and
then on the texting and everything
sitting at the table and talking to the
parents talking to them they're texting
hey why don't you listen to me
and I kind of run out to my friend and
they're running there they're running
there people are attacked on chips to
them anymore there's nothing there's
running around that everybody has their
own their own what to do
no phones no nothing listen now together
have a family suited together family
dinner Friday night Shabbos morning
early Shabbos enjoying it because
it's
the pleasure of the example
of the miniature of the world to come
finding away from the world Earthly
world into pleasure
into feeling God's presence
and number seven
the seventh day God became exalted and
sat on his
Throne of Honor
God said the Throne of other Shabbos he
rested with the Jewish people and
together with us that
Throne of Honor he's sitting together
with us our Shabbos table that's where
he is together with us
because we're keeping chapters we're
waiting for the world we're like him he
doesn't do all this he doesn't do what
he doesn't write he doesn't to put out
license but he's totally away from this
world if we make this away from the
world we connected to Heaven just like
him
are we able to connect and feel good and
feel the owner
sharpest is just like the world to come
well I
had a lot to say tonight
it took a long time to go through
I think it's worthwhile I hope so I hope
you feel this worthwhile but I just want
to I'll ask a question the next Hashem
wanna answer bring out the beauty
and the idea and the depth of Shabbos
if we say
and Shabbos was supposed to remember
the creator of the world the world did
not come by itself
it was not through
evolution
of God forbid the will for evolution
that's ridiculous
philosophy Evolution anybody with a half
a brain knows that can't certainly can't
exist things to come by itself to the
world the gods it's full of wisdom so
full of ideas
some come by itself like this machine
can by itself after a billion years
don't believe that in his wildest dreams
that came by itself the world itself
full of wisdom much more than this
machine didn't come by itself you had to
be a creator
we have to think about it on Shabbos God
created the world in six days and he
rested on the seventh day
therefore we rest on the seventh day
that's what we say right
sometimes
keep Shabbos remember Shabbos says
translated because God created the world
in six days invested in the seventh day
if I want you to rest in the seventh day
and my question is to follow you
before the will was created God was
resting he wasn't doing anything right
so to speak we have to talk about the
way you understand it we don't really
understand God but in our terms of
thinking that's what before the world
God wasn't doing anything right he was
resting
created the world six days they rested
afterwards
so he went back to square one he was
resting before listening afterwards well
that's not why what do we keep the
Shabbos for
that God created
not that he rested he was resting down
time before that if we want to remember
God's like today we shouldn't do them
alone do actions in chapters a country
that God made a new Commission in the
world of
the six days praise heavens and the
earth and the plants and the Animals the
man and everything the trees he created
he made
so we should be doing creating on
Shabbos why we might remember what God
did we're resting on jobs nothing no
news he was resting before before he
committed the world too so resting shows
that he created the world
and do everything to show that God
created them this this world that he
created
and we went on a show that we recognize
he created so we should create it what
are you resting for the last thing is it
doesn't show anything wrestling shows
that's the way God was before that's
what it was afterwards doesn't show
anything in
any special sign of creation
so my question is
why do we have such an invincible
don't do any work on Shabbos any of
these activities accidents and jobs
because God rested the seventh day they
should say make sure to do all the
actions and Shabbos we're doing the week
because you want to remember that God
did all these things created the world
so you do things to surely created also
you create to do things
why are we keeping away from doing the
work and and showing that that that God
stopped doing everything we want to show
that he did everything so why are we not
doing it
that's my question you want to cut them
like that the next request to Shell I'd
like to talk about this to explain that
because with some other ideas also but
right now we could open up the floor for
any comment questions and since we left
I agree thank you so much wow what a
what an eye opener the Shabbos
Chavez it sounds great
our only problem those who know the
today's childhoods is that we shouldn't
take it for granted it's like a
millionaire takes his millions for
granted sometimes against it
sorry
as I understand that the history of
mankind is based on a monarchy form of
government
the history
yes
allows includes in Israel as well for
the Baseline which this was destroyed
that the results of a monarchy has been
visible
so how do we justify that this is the
best form that God would provide us with
us
in democracy I don't know and certainly
monarchy has not worked as far as I can
see well I beg to differ on that
monarchy is a very very good form of
government it's much better than
democracy
Winston Churchill said democracy is a
necessary evil
the matter is the necessarily evil the
Majesty is not so great the people think
it is because
a person
who
look what's happening now in the world
that's getting better for the election
now
those people were running for president
what are they doing
the sitting trying to find out to knock
down the president whatever they can
possibly do to find ways to knock them
down that came out recently about the
job situation right it's a terrible
and what's the people that running
through I said well they're not but
wonderful now we can get Obama look at
some job situation he's so happy that
that now that something came out that's
the way to knock the president with
their
working not for the truth
not for justice they're working to win
the election they're looking to knock
the other guy down and they pulled them
hallow promises the people in the world
that was so foolish every time a new a
new politician gets up I'm gonna do this
oh yeah he's gonna do that they'll do
anything
problems where some people are more
capable than others but all the promises
of hollow they don't really know what
they're doing they're just looking for
ways and means to get the public to vote
for them and the way they dress make
sure they dress the right way and they
won't get to touch the people and they
do all kinds of things and they have all
the psychologists working for them to
work work psychology on the public
a king is this that doesn't have to
worry about all these things the king
once he's in power just like we have
today in the Supreme Court and remember
supreme court today knows his job is
forever
without the judges of course that is the
final word on law we don't want him to
be sidetracked by being afraid of his
job something might happen and he has to
be careful how what he says because uh
who knows what's going to happen the
outcome it might be criticized he's able
to say but I think it's right and
doesn't have to worry about losing his
job because your job's crap because
therefore we say what's the truth you
have to worry about the president the
rest of the window popular support say
all kinds of things that doesn't believe
in and so on and so forth so my other
key is a really very good form of
government
and because a king does not have to
worry about uh being thrown off as often
from from his job he can concentrate
what's right now the problem is
that power corrupt
that sometimes some Kings King David for
instance
the Vatican King David was unbelievable
what he did for the people and he had a
very sad life people
he was great he's such a wonderful life
he's very sad life he asked King David
but he was so strong stood for justice
and he did whatever is right no matter
what
making another great kings that came out
from also then other kings were not so
great because of the power but we have
to also understand that the king does
not have full power by himself he has
the Sanhedrin the high court the Supreme
Court
has to
agree with the major decisions of the
king if you want to go to war he has to
get the permission from the high court
to get whatever he wants the King has a
lot of power but not full power people
don't realize that the high court of 71
so that's today
system is based on Jewish good system we
have lower courts and higher courts
Supreme Court that's Supreme Court 71
people today you have probably eight
people on speaker
nine people they're accepting one
concept because that Supreme Court had a
big
uh say and Kings
decisions it wasn't up to him what it
wants to do so it wasn't totally uh like
all the king said total possibility
so fast it's a it's a very good way of
government but like people are people
and sometimes they succumb to the
desires and the honor and the different
things and it has its pitfalls but it's
it's a very theoretically a very good
way of going and that's what the Kinks
feel learned study the Kings of King
David and King Solomon they had their
Entourage around them their their
cabinet
names are given this one was in charge
of that as the judges Secretary of the
Treasury executive War they had the
generals that they limited everything by
themselves they're great people the King
David was surrounded by the greatest
people
foreign
in other words the they learned the
Democracy of the western world today
learned the checks and balance system
from us yeah another thing is but the
King was not elected once he was a king
he was King unless they assassinated
them assassinated
but otherwise he had he had the
realization he's had to be afraid to say
what's right and then not be popular and
uh and there's not Bachelor so you know
democracies had a lot of pitfalls with
people don't know she should go towards
and go to war depends on who's the
papers and the people are are
influenced by other people
in person man on the street that's not a
lot of these things
it doesn't realize doesn't know what's
right what's wrong he doesn't know
what's doing behind the scenes and the
politics in other countries and this is
a necessary evil see what vote for
somebody who's been
just but people real they're gonna take
a poll around it should they go out of
the world should they gotta be at them
should they got Afghanistan some people
yeah people say that well they know
what's going on
you have to have people that the
government that that they study at today
they don't put behind the scenes but the
people on the street they know they got
all excited about something and they
don't really know what they've been
right so it's a necessary evil it's not
such a great government
the priest had their own autonomy the
king couldn't really touch them too much
either that's right that's right
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their place in government that they uh
yeah they said
yeah
the great great
general of King David such a righteous
person is unbelievable person surrounded
by the greatest people either Kings
Island
is
thank you thank you
to illustrates you could say um Rabbi
feral wine wrote a Trilogy between
history of human people but the way he
framed it was in
um by discussing the rabbis who led and
guided the people so that's sort of very
much what you're talking about
well he's talking about which period of
time
trilogy but he he didn't go into every
detail he just went into the famous the
rabbis and how they conducted and how
everybody followed the guidance of the
groundhogs that's right that's the tone
just like a king would say something
that's true but at different points of
history that changed during this Temple
there was a king in other words the
psychord of the sword and after I was
destroyed she was going to draw those
things changed but they were always
somebody in charge a great person people
looked up to the great rabbis who who
led the generation it changed different
different countries different different
periods of time but the bottom line was
that it was always something great that
happened the little Jewish people it's
correct
probably about a major degree more
shouldn't be said maybe another time how
they ridicule the monarchy system today
the Democracy looked back but to stay in
almost they don't realize the Jewish
monarchy
they learned the assistant checks and
balances from our system
all the judicial system is based on the
Jewish
because I realize that
uh yeah I haven't mentioned before some
of my students that I had in Toronto
years ago teaching Toronto and they uh
they went to college and becoming
lawyers
and we used to study talmouth tomorrow
after school is study with them
they came back one day and said that the
professor
is saying that they have to change the
uh the words of contracts because look
at the words of concerts that were
written years ago that didn't make any
sense
and they went to the Christian country
the people make them selling and buying
and borrowing and lending and so on the
contracts don't make any sense and
they've just been because they had a
years ago they're keeping it now but the
what what does it say there it's instead
of being to me it's exactly from 10
and there's reasons why I certain that
they don't really knows what the reason
is
but we studies of Talbot to thy couple
and then and all these things were that
are written in the contract because
that's how Jewish continents were
written and there was a reason for it
but today to look at the dental over it
comes without the reason for it they say
I'm sitting in town
but it's all taken from Thomas and from
years ago and the whole system is like
holding the swearing I was talking about
a few weeks ago
the swear verses where the same truth
it's all coming from the Torah it's
where the sun go to court you have to
swear say the truth all these things are
witnesses standing up to say that it's a
testimony of the stand so I think it
doesn't really work well there's the
other person that the statements have to
feel that something
give somebody the death penalty would
invite if somebody pay some money that
very seriously they understand the
attention and before they give their
testimony and all these things are taken
from footage and that the people that
realized how much that influence that
the Jewish people had on society today
I
think like the one and on and on the
different things
as much as you can
uh but
being a Sharma shop this is often used
as a barometer
to measure uh somebody's sort of make a
big kosher or I don't know
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trusted uh
kitchen or Etc
um
so how do we explain what how does
heavily explain that
well
Shabbos is considered
the
the foundation
and the Cornerstone of the Jewish
religion
and the reason is because
you mentioned before because
is the because well explain the next
week that's the question about whatever
it is Shabbos is the day that shows that
believe that God created the world he's
interested in the world he's interested
in us he watches over us he knows what
we're doing
without that idea we're not Jews because
that's what does it do
a person who believes God created us
created the world gave us the Torah and
this is what this is what we stand for
every person does not keep Shabbos that
means he's not serious about these men
men who Judaism now today
since seeing Europe a president keep
Shabbos he was the outcast because
everybody could Challenge and so we
didn't keep it and 100 years ago on 20
years ago everybody keep shopping it's
like he's not he's outcasted today and
so I drank this may people don't know
what Travis is all about they're brought
up without Chavez they don't realize
what it's all about
so we don't have that attitude to people
taking a few jobs
we try to teach them and try to show
them how to give them the feeling of it
and they should experience it some
experiences are Shabbos that no one's
all about from from just theoretical
talking about it looking somebody in the
straight jacket with all those laws if
they come to keep the Shabbos and they
live it and they experience it and see
what the connection the God is and how
wonderful and like warm and exciting and
and and
such a wonderful day of the week people
keep shopping foreign to want to keep
Shabbos so that's we have to try to give
over to people who didn't have the
chance to know about jobs so we don't
look at them as outcasts because they
don't really matter
to teach them that you know what it's
all about most people learn it's all
about the experiences they got on board
and they'd like to keep them so
so but the reason what you're saying why
the considered uh outcast
till till recently because that is the
fundamental and the the score is on
Judaism to believe that God created the
world and and he's uh he's it checks and
balances what we're doing and he wants
to do the right thing you know that we
have to realize that because we're
supposed to think about other jobs and
get to that one next week to get words
into this
um
the spices they need the dice to make
Trails by government all the dice to the
clothing and to the curtains something
diesel
plow and all these things
witness for the building
and another small question I'd like to
have
like mobile or mail it can be we're
talking about everything but if I want
to put the pile of uh nuts
no no it's only in the in the southern
in the field in the house there's a lot
of kids coming from nuts around their
living and relax put them together it's
all out in the field that it's spread
about you now to put them apart because
if it's in the house
it's kind of quiet now
okay
patience from technical
oh that sounds good yeah yeah
the rabbi I'm assuming that he's 39 and
alcohol
where we're written thousands of years
ago
um conceivably I think we're going to be
written
in 2011 or 2012. the Imports these um
additional
or some lesson than it was
when it was first written
we believe everything in the Torah
is from God
God does not change his laws don't
change
sure
they're in the back
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yeah
our sound director Megan which one the
one that your old ones
shut this the one that you're holding
now this is good that's good okay
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well
the
the Torah
doesn't change because God
doesn't change his knowledge doesn't
change the term doesn't change so it's
all the way it was then the way it is
now sometimes a high court can make
certain laws to add on to certain things
of the Torah to make sure that we keep
the right thing and they'll add on
certain laws to uh that we should keep
and the high court can do that but they
want to take away they only add-on
sounds to certain things we haven't
shoppers
so the Torah laws will never change no
matter this world the world to come that
our laws and laws the principles those
are God's principles the principle of
God cannot change
so the clinic laws in order for us to
make sure to keep the current laws they
added on certain things that we
shouldn't come to designate the Shadows
prevention
but will never change
thank you
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has a very strict idea of
it's inspired or swing like the rambam
and the some astronauts and don't go
with the sheets of their website though
some very careful the roundabouts they
had a certain amount of space he can't
have open and help everybody's supposed
to be different they have a whole safer
tell me about this question how to make
it exactly how that's before that's the
question some people are doing something
let me know
I have a nice story
about the shopping center
if there's no other questions and you
had a question before Robert let's end
with a story
such good questions but okay please a
lady by the name of Mrs Gordon
of course with Mrs Gordon was a very
prominent uh woman that was that's
Community she lived to the very old age
passed away a few years ago
and she was in the generation we met you
last week when Shabbos was very
difficult to keep people couldn't get a
job at Shops
go to their employers they say where can
shop and snow can you can't have the job
open so they take a job someday work
till Friday and show up in Shoppers
again Sunday You're Fired didn't come
and Shop us they go from job to job some
people after a while gave in
some people kept it and they suffered
but they were very staunchy about it
so she lived in that generation she was
she was a very old woman she was 90
a few hundred children against all the
great grandchildren if you don't do that
you passed away
she went to Europe with her husband to
study the great yeshivas in Europe and
then we know she was in America then by
boat
studying children under the great rabbis
of Europe at that time after the first
world war for the second world
so at her eulogy her brother eulogized
her at a funeral
and they set up a store
she was a young girl about 11 years old
and
they were going through this difficult
time
your father couldn't get a steady job
he went from place to place worked the
whole week it was fired
so her uncle came to the house and
started yelling at the father
telling him what are you doing your
family's suffering look at the kids that
don't have enough food to eat
and you're keeping Shabbos you have to
be realistic you have to realize that
other people they're realistic they're
not keeping Shabbos and you have to do
the same thing and start with this and
this is going to overboard too long and
fanatical way of life you have to be
realistic
this little girl was standing there
a little girl that was
and the father went over there and said
what do you say what should I tell this
man
tell them to go to hell