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Are You Jewish If You Violate Shabbat?

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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today. If you say the truth, you're too religious. If you say what says you're too religious, if you tell somebody, listen, as long as you drive on Shabbat, even if you drive into synagogue, you're considered a according to the Torah. We cannot use you in a Jewish ceremony. If, let's say, you have a family member that wants to get married, they need witnesses. You cannot be one of the witnesses. Why? Because you're if you touch If you touch wine that's not that's we can't drink that wine anymore. We can't use you as a witness. Why? You're considered like an idol worshipper. Oh, it's offensive. I didn't make it. You have a complaint. Go talk. Oh, you're fanatic. But I didn't write it. I'm just informing you. I'm only telling you what's written you. Apparently, you didn't read it. I didn't read it either for most of my life. Eventually when I read it, I realized, oh wow, according to the Torah, I was going for for a long time. I didn't realize. I thought I was Jewish this whole time. I thought I was Jewish the whole time, but apparently the Rambam says in Shabbat, the last chapter 30, the last 16, that a Jew that violates Shabbat is considered going, he's considered like an idol worshipper. If you ask people, religious people, is a Shabbat It's it's the same thing as everybody else. 99% of them will tell you there's no difference. 99 if you tell people say is it true that a is considered like a goyem loves all the Jews. Everybody is the same. He just happens to be. So the didn't know what he's talking about. The doesn't know what he's talking about. in in at least seven different places doesn't know what it's nobody knows what he's talking about except most people do not know and one of the reasons is because one of the stigmas that's out there that's aside from safari and eskenazi and all the other goodies is being too religious being a fanatic being extreme but the reality is just like the said if you're not going to be extreme meaning extremely honest, extremely dedicated to extremely committed to the truth. Then all we're going to do is give ourselves and other people excuses to never