Daily Chidush: Basketball on Shabbat

[Music] all so before a ball is considered M for adults with adults is any man over 13 years old or a woman that's 12 years old uh so 13 and up for men and 12 for girls uh the children they're allowed to play with ball but uh adults are not allowed it's considered M now um so that in itself makes it forbidden for a man to play basketball or uh or any other sport on Shabbat now if let's for example the man has a child uh he's allowed to play with a ball with that child but again it's with that child not with a bunch of his friends and he includes his 5-year-old in the game no he's playing with the child yeah he's allowed why why is it number one Shabbat is not a day off Shabbat is a day to get closer to hem Shabbat is a day to sanctify hasem the highest level that you have throughout the whole week uh it's a way to connect to a and basketball is considered something of the mundane so if someone were to play basketball let's say for the sake of exercise during the week that's fine but there's no need for that on Shabbat uh he has six other days to do it do it on the other days you know Shabbat is not a day to exercise Shabbat is not a day to uh uh play with your friends and uh Shabbat is a day to connect to AEM second thing is is that it's a uh uh important that a person is realistic with himself if he's going to play basketball surely within a matter of moments he's going to start sweating if he starts sweating he's going to be more inclined to take a shower which is also forbidden on Shabbat now you can say that no no no he's going to play but he's not going to take a shower you still have number one to deal with the one that I stion that's m to the fact that it's mundane but three that means he's going to be smelly and you know go to sh with all that uh smell and so on is not shabat it's not it's not anything so a person needs to know there is a time and a place for everything you know it's a uh if a person wants to uh for example uh show his his love affection to his to his wife and he wants to give her a hug no problem but if he does it in public it's forbidden you're forbidden the says it's forbidden to show affection to your wife in public even holding her hand is forbidden now let to hug her in public so you're going to say to me wait a minute so how come uh there are even rabbis that uh you know have pictures hugging their wives or uh even other women in public these are called okay is bad people even though they're called rabbis and I say this with you know a full understanding of what is and uh and what it needs to be the reality is there's a lot of confusion today and as said the biggest reason is because of theim theim the Shepherds the bad Shepherds there are many people that have the position of a rabbi but they don't follow the law themselves and because of that people learn from their actions instead of learning from the books and they think that it's allowed to do certain things you see sometimes a rabbi playing basketball you see sometimes Rabbi you know hugging his wife in public that does not mean that you're allowed to do it that just means that he is a mistaken he either does not know the law enough to be a rabbi or he knows the law and he's simply ignoring it which means he should not be a rabbi so you cannot learn these things from rabbis you have to learn it from the books and the books specifically say these things are forbidden as you saw I brought you something that was very simple a copy of a book uh I have it's y it's an book based on the of and obviously in the beginning of the book they mentioned many different sources in regards to uh different that discuss and observance of Shabbat and so on and one of the things that they bring is the that destroyed an entire city because people were violating Shabbat not by driving cars like unfortunately people do today but rather because they were playing a ball with a ball on Shabbat and I'm sure it wasn't the same thing as today it's probably lesser and still hasem was Furious enough to destroy an entire city because of it and this is a person that doesn't believe in is considered a and he has no share of the god of Israel he has no share of the world to come so to say no no but this isar a long time ago a person that does not believe in thear it has no share of the world to come this is simple laws of the Torah so it's important to know again you want to exercise playing basketball during the week here and there no problem as long as mod setting and so on and it's not uh you know taking place instead of you learning tah uh you're still going to be learning toah on a regular basis no problem you can play basketball but if you're going to start playing basketball on Shabbat then you're using something that's allowed in a forbidden situation which means means it is forbidden it's like having a a beautiful and delicious dish of food but you put some poison in it which turns the entire delicious food into poison so please don't poison 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