Receiving the Reward for Guarding the Sanctity of Shabbos with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] welcome welcome to the you've been a big midrash to those that are here present those that are on skype and uh and youtube and whatnot so we always deal with fundamentals we we use the clearcar as the outline for our our conversation and um we're in parashat kittisa and you'll find this in chapter we're in 31 chapter 31 of exodus and we're not starting the very beginning but we're starting in chapter 31 on verse 13. okay another idea just so that you know that if this is your first time watching you should know that down below in the description box we have links where you can follow the hebrew source sheets okay so you don't get the color ones colorful ones that i have right really nice colors but it is good to follow the hebrew become familiar right i'll tell you the truth i don't think there's any way you can possibly really learn you might absorb information you might have a discussion but to really learn to sink your teeth into the torah is to become familiar with the terminology the torah uses which is lush and kurdish which is in hebrew and here we go we are in again chapter 31 on the english sewer sheets we're going to see a number one verses 13 through 15. the truth is i really want to concentrate only on 13 um at the moment but we're going to get into it and it says in english and you the atta you and you da bear alban israel so god is speaking to moses speak to the children of israel laymore saying to them what ah the word we're going to discuss with ach means it's it's a really awkward word however which means there's a certain condition but we don't know that yet all it says is will translate is only just if you would only keep my shabboses because it is a sign yeah we're going to deal with the concept of shabbos big time today and the clear card begins by telling us that this word seems superfluous it's added you don't need it right we already know god's speaking to most the whole time and now you should tell the children of israel so what does it mean and you well guess what there's something very unique about moses something that many of us are not aware of the reshona el moshe unbelievable are you aware of this yes we know that god created the world we know that god said the whole the the day itself is holy already back in genesis right there's something unique right but guess what we're in exodus god is letting us know that there's something unique there's something that relates to the essence um and foremost the essence of shabbos foremost to moshe why i want you to look in schmos rabba it's number three on the on the source sheet you know there's different interpretations and understanding of moses saw when moses was let's say in a position you know in the palace and he went out and saw the jewish people suffering it says that he saw their suffering you know what why what did he see yes obviously they were suffering they were working very hard they were slaves they didn't have any rest you know he had a conversation with pharaoh his adopted father so to speak right he went and said to pharaoh one who is one who has a slave if you own a slave if he doesn't even rest for one day a week he's going to die he saw their suffering so he went and he told them says while you're slaves mr pharaoh if you don't allow them to rest one day a week they will die so you know what pharaoh said okay my i guess uh overseer my what do you call that you know not the viceroy moshe would had a high position in the palace he said go and do for them as you're saying give them a day a break give them a break so moses went and established the sabbath day of rest for them so one second we're in our parsha we're talking about the torah itself and god is saying and you speak to the chosen israel and say to them my shabbos says you shall keep the madras is telling us that moshe is ultimately responsible i would say ultimately that's that's a little bit of a jump there's some relationship to moses and the sabbath and uh for those that uh davin out of a sitter well when we just continue he says ryan beyonce that it was moshe himself that chose shabbos the seventh day if pharaoh says okay give him a day of rest he chose shabbos perhaps because he already knew shabbos existed so he already convinced pharaoh to give them that they rest which day of rest should it be let it be shabbos day so bunusacha tefila what we say in our prayers on shabbos morning what do we say yismak moshe right i have a translation here if you look at number four this is how our prayers begin or let's say uh in the the beginning of the middle of the schwann estrella it's uh we'll call in the right in the after the first three before the last three the middle bracha let mosha rejoice in the gift of his portion how many times in our life have we said those words what do they mean just think about it that moses will rejoice in the in the gift of his portion you follow what it's saying now that moses is responsible on a certain level for the jewish people while they're in egypt as uh observing shabbos okay that's the first paragraph the umar and the the clear car continues remember it said i pointed that out ah now he's not going to comment really yet on the ah part the first thing he wants to concentrate on that it says shop so psy in other words i would translate as sabbaths sabbath it's plural right however only my sabbaths stay in bemashma it implies two sabbaths should guard and keep my sabbaths my sabbaths shabboses yeah lethia now i know if he's really trying to answer the question at this point but he is pointing out that the the mentioning the mentioning of the tabernacle itself and all of its vessels it uses the word lee the word lee is like in chapter 25 of exodus verse 8 is that eight or one eight it says they shall make for me a sanctuary and also in chapter 30 verse 25 it says shem in mishkat kodesh yes that the oil the holy oil of anointment will be to me rashi says there that the well it's not just rashi the madrid and what not whenever the word lee when god is using the word lee it's always talking about something that will last forever and you can imagine god is eternal and if god says this is to me the mikdash the shemin all this will be forever because both verses uses li guess what it's a little bit problematic isn't it because do we see the miktash with our own eyes today no do obviously if there's no mikdash and also there's no shaman in mishka obviously these things don't exist so he brings down a biatco parchestroma masi there's a quote it's brought down marble lush and lee that any time the word lee is used for me it's to me it's something that should be eternal and last forever just like god and wait one second shalom it's a rhetorical question we see is it not that we see with our own eyes that there is no existence of a base of mikdash right now it's not forever and the it's actually destroyed as well as the shemin where is it it's very important that we should know this that this this word it's coming as it's imposing a condition on the matter and that's what these words mean alkane um god wants us to keep shabboses if we would have kept the shabboses right away in the desert moses everything would have happened like end of the game meshiach would have been here we would have been redeemed immediately i'm sure you've heard this before so based on this can this idea of its condition ah as god says in verse 13 only my shabbos is shall you guard turn the page this is based on khazal in gamora shabbos 118b that if only the jewish people would have kept two chavez's in a row immediately we would have been redeemed now look in isaiah chapter 56 verse 4. now i know we're going to spend a lot of time later at the end of the class dealing with this i'm sure a lot of people have questions so it says in verse 4 for so says the lord to the enochs who will keep my sabbaths and then later on i think it's in verse 7 it says i will bring them to my holy mountain now i just want you to know what a eunuch is this sarees as the hebrew says if you just read that you really wouldn't know but you have to read verse 3. it's talking about do i have it here so i have in front of me i'm sorry you don't have it but verse 3 says let not the foreigner who has joined himself to hashem speak saying hashem will utter utterly separate me from his people and lent not the barren one so in english it says the barren one believe it or not that's what the in hebrews the same the eunuch and let not the barren ones say behold i am a shriveled tree now let me just explain something there are many people who will convert later on in life after they already brought non-jewish children into the world or people who may never get married or may never have children they should not say this is what isaiah is saying let not the foreigner that's a convert who has joined himself to hashem speak saying his utterly separated me from his peoples meaning that we know that sometimes a convert will feel that it doesn't really truly belong to the jewish people because of their own past hopefully that's the only reason right but what happens when they don't have children it's like adding insult to injury now they really feel they don't belong if they don't have children meaning they already had children before they converted or as the verse continues and let not the barren one say someone who doesn't have children doesn't mean that their their parts were cut off okay and now you understand that he shouldn't say but i am a shriveled tree but rather continue as verse 4 says for thus said hashem to the barren ones who observe the sabbath even though you feel that you don't have a continued contin continuity through children your actions what you do are your fruits right we see in part in um parties noah right where you read noah it says these are the toddlers and then it talks about his character traits he was a tadik he walked with hashem and then it mentions his sons you would think that if if it's talking about these are the toddos todos could mean produce it could mean the progeny but we also translate as chronicles of meaning the history and who the person is what they produced even raj he says there don't think that it's only about children the chronicles of noah all right are about his his um his uh his actions your actions so if you're a convert who doesn't have children after they converted me you'd be converted much later in life or if you are a jew and you didn't have children at all don't as we're about to hear one should never give up any sense of hopelessness your actions is what will get you into eternal eternity okay it's a little bit complicated i want to just pass this for a moment but at the end i want to read a lot of the comments on that so let's go back into the clear car itself because the last thing we mentioned what it says in isaiah chapter 56 verse four yishmiro episode regarding those who keep my sabbaths again it's also plural okay now we're going to back to the actual language of ah ah we said was some kind of condition placed on this idea so what was it saying i would ask for drum roll please a lot of the times these two words ah go together like very um uh a stipulation of a condition however only with this condition what's that that there will be a mishkan and the shaman they will last forever what's the condition that those would last forever that's only if you guard two shabboses shabbos okay now what two shabbos are we talking about as i will now just go off on a little tangent interestingly enough what does it mean two shops is in a row what about there's uh one shop there's actually two different gemaras two different mid-rushing one says if all the jewish people kept one shabbos the redeemer would come and there's another one says if they all kept two shabbos in a row the redeemer would come so how do you touch up how do you straighten this out so i understood like this from rabbi yokonanz wagon florida he explained they're really not arguing it's really one shabbos because the one that says two chavez's is talking about the second shabbos in other words there is no second shabbos if you don't have the first shabbos a shabbos is day seven you have to have day one you have to have a beginning period we we make hub dollar after a 24 25 hour period of shabbos and now we have six days and then that following day is day seven so if i just decide right now we're going to keep shabbos it's day i don't know 2 million 340 whatever it is there's it's not day seven it's just a random day we decided today shabbos what do you mean shabbos it's not seventh day you can call it shabbos but it's not day seven right you follow what i'm saying not really okay to say it's day seven you need a starting point you understand okay so you need a shabbos in which to say the first shop is now we're going to start in other words mozi shabba saturday night now is day one otherwise you don't have day one if you just say okay today's day seven day seven or what when did you start you have to have a starting point so when it says two shops in a row it's talking about the second shabbos it's the second shabbos which is equal to that one shop as it says in the other mentorship yes or no you follow the second the second chunk is the second shot when it says keep one shabbos it's not inconsistent with the other opinion that you need two shabboses but you just need a starting point and the one says you need two shabbos is consistent with the one shot because there's only don't meant the second one you're saying it's the same of course okay but that's a side point the point here he's not talking about these two chalices he's talking about keeping the shabbos of the beginning of the world in other words when god created the world he created it in six days and he rested on the seventh that's shabbos called shabbas brayshit that we actually celebrate and we observe what we call shabbos prashi but then there's another shabbos and that shabbos is what are we saying we talk about shabbas being me okay so basically so basically we're talking about the world was created in six days true and the seventh day shabbas god rested there's 6 000 years of history and the 7 thousandth year will be shabbos a day that's kuloshavas a year a thousand years so now think of it like this go back into the clear car the yahoo yo dasrashi shapiro shabbat shabbos keep in mind the whole idea of shabbos being introduced here is to let you know that you should not work not do what we call malacha not do creative whack or creative acts of work to build the mishkan on shabbos now the mishkan is very important but shabbos overrides the mishkan kamshabas you stop the work you cease from work now you understand to a certain extent that the existence of the mishkan the producing of the michigan the existence of the mishkan is actually dependent on keeping shabbos it's dependent on it so now you understand from that in induction right you're inferring that what that shabbos is actually greater than the building of the mishkan itself and therefore we know we don't push off shabbos on account of building the mishkan but the other way around right the we stop building the mishkan when shabbos comes around okay so this paragraph is actually very important we're about to say keep in mind because at the end we're going to refer back to it because there's two reasons for shabbos the timeless day shop the reason for these two concepts of shabbos are twofold leficia hashaba stay because within shabbos there's two aspects the point of shabbos is that we should remember there's a creator the god created the world will say in english or maybe it's greek ex nihilo he created it something from nothing let's say yes miyan which really means he took pure energy and made it physical okay that's our physical world the shabbos brace sheet and that's what we're going to refer to as the shabbos of creation now that's one aspect of shabbos the other aspect of shabbos is shabbish the shabbos that is yet to come that will happen in the future this is reflecting about the world to come yom shakulu shabas it's like a thousand year period that is like shabbos which i'll use these words because i have no better words of describing it'll be like bliss it'll be where there's no competition where right that the people will well this is after resurrection of the dead so it's we can't even imagine really what it's going to be like but he says that all the all the commentators agree okay now i just want to make one little caveat there is a major disagreement between the rambam and everyone else about what the term uh olamaba is so the rambam holds that allah is a like like a purgatory it's where the souls go before the resurrection of the dead let's say before judgment day perhaps and everyone else says that the actual resurrection of the dead is what we call all maba which introduces a whole different level of existence so keeping that in mind i think that we're basically i don't think there's a real necessary argument for some reason you can have two terms i think the rambam also agrees he doesn't disagree about the fact that there is a of a resurrection of the dead it's one of the 13 principles of faith so resurrection resurrection of the dead is like part of the end game so so too where did the souls go until that point the neroli so the clear car begins by saying you know what it seems to me lahavi that it's actually um seems to prove everything we said from the medrush itself now you got to keep in mind we're going to read the medrish only a few lines of it and try to make heads or tales rabbi nassen oymer minayan atta oymer from where from where these ones say such a thing called misha mishami at the shabbos that anyone or all who keep and observe the shabbos as is described maoli and allah that hashem places it upon this person as if he kept all the shabboses from the time of creation until the time of the resurrection of the dead can you imagine i keep one shabbos a hundred percent perfectly i'm going to get credit as if i kept shabbos from when from the very creation of the universe until the end of time and it says mr there's a proof and it's from mark verse the shamroo bennet israel shabbos it says right that the jewish people now keep in mind the shamroo it's what we're going to call third person they the jewish people they keep the shabbos okay now what that's how it ends the clear car says the mosquito is any thinking person right that's what a mosquito is any enlightened person any intelligent person will be astonished we'll be confused we'll not understand what's going on you gave me this whole rebbe nuts and explained that if you kept one shabbos properly it's like you kept all the shabboses that ever existed or will exist how can that be so he asked me lamar how does rebbe nussen say such a thing the yesh khan rem is the shabbos in in the words the shamroo beneath right how do you have that the jewish people should keep the shabbas how do you have any kind of hint to these two ideas that shabbos was from the beginning of creation until the end of time so eleva he brings a list at least three questions and we're going to have to keep track of these questions so if you want to write them down as we go along he says like this you know what was was difficult for rabbi nelson that he needed to come and answer such a question by the sham rubine israel so he's going to list the questions of things that should have bothered us too it bothered rebbi nutson to come and answer it the very fact it says in the beginning in verse 16. it says i'm sorry actually not 16 i think it's 13. so sai right in verse 13 right only keep my sabbaths keep in mind well i just want you to know we're going to deal with verses 13 14 and 15 as if they're going to be talking about shabbos brayshit the shabbos of creation verse 16 is going to talk about the shabbos that was given to the jewish people later on in the desert so that's what i mean by here when it says shop so psy that's verse 13. keep my sabbaths and then afterwards it mentions hashabat again in verse 13. actually it's verse 14. how 14 begins therefore keep the sabbath okay therefore keep the sabbath now i just want you to also know like this i don't want to get i don't want to confuse anybody but i want you to note that in verse 13 it began with the word atta right and you are going to say over to the children of israel tishmaru is right you shall keep right where it says ellavada we're going back along what was really bothering rebbi nassim was like this why in verse 13 says shop society my shabbos is that's fine but then afterwards it says the word shabbos and that's in verse 16. but in verse 13 that's true but i'm looking at verse that's true that's true but i'm not going to follow i'm not going to concentrate on that yet let's follow the clear car because he is working systematically okay so in verse 13 verse 16 it says one time shabbos verse 13 it says shop so write multiple shabboses let's just keep this clear verse 13 says shop society plural verse 16 says one shabbos that's question number one question number two the oh chicola partial midair min no in other words second person like for the example in verse 14 it says ushmartem that's a shabbos you plural you plural should keep the shabboses you should guard the shabboses okay but that's called second person whereas akako never blush in this star in verse 16 it says the sham ruben estrella shabbos call it third we call that um third person because it's talking about the children of israel should guard the shabboses so far that's the second question then he says and furthermore shannon marsh teipa means he as larry wanted to point out it says oh oc actually twice it's going to say it in um verses 13 as well as verse 16 again here i'll show you if you so it says ice he actually it's verse 17. so go to 17 let's see where i have it look on number 15 on the english shore story between me and the children of israel it is a sign forever baini um and if you go back to 13 is it on 13 right it says it is a sign now what he's also going to point out is where is the word i see that it's a sign in relation to who it's being commanded to so in verse 16 sorry go to 13 it says um right speak to the children of israel say to them every shabbos is tishmaru you guys should guard fine oh you see it is a sign and then it's followed with baini or benechem the durotech right it's between me and them with you for forever keep that in mind the word is he is before the command that it's between us that's in verse 13. but go to um go to the verse 17. so it says baini obey israel the words between me and the children of israel is before the word is before the word it's a sign now let's go back to the clear card he's going to address all these issues i'm pretty sure that's all the questions but we're gonna we're gonna hash out that last question let's see what he says and again the ocean is so that's in verse 13 14 and 15 the earlier verses until verse 16 vishamru hako midabir bashabas bereshi his claim here is that's all talking about the creation of the world the koi on and it's actually reflecting or going back and what was said when it said however on condition my strava says you shall keep tishmaru and only i guess it's verse 17 verse 17 is then and maybe it's even 18 but it's only afterwards describing what those shabbos actually are um because in the very beginning again in chapter verse 13 it's referring to the the shabs of creation he is he because it is a sign between me and between you and he says you see the word ice comes before between me and you because shabbos breishi breishit the shabbos of creation preceded any kind of command to the jewish people right it was even to go so far as binay noah are not commanded necessarily in keeping shabbos but they can celebrate and probably should observe the fact that god created the world in some celebratory way no problem with that so this is talking about shabbos bereshit and that came before bene israel's command and that's why it says at the end of 13 in order that you should know that i am god who sanctifies you because kihubal is it's coming to remind you that there is a god in this world who created the world the whom this is proof this is a sign of his creation and that's what it means you should know that i am the lord in other words shabbos of brazil is all for our belief and knowledge in god creating the world and regarding that it says in verse 14 who shmart them again you plural called second person we call it no which means presence the presence when i'm in your presence i say you when you're not here i'll say about him them someone who's not present right that's third person so that's regarding shabbos breishi until the end of the idea in the end of the parsha the akah then afterwards from the words in verse 16 the sham ruben starts that the jewish people should keep the shabbos israel shabbos lawsuit it's now beginning to talk about the shabbos of the future yom shakulu shabbas and here is i would ask for drumroll it's the shabbos that is nistar the shabbos you cannot see okay it's shabbos that isn't here yet that's why it's third person that's why it's what we call in grammatical terms nistar as opposed to as opposed to no present in second person which is referring to the jewish people but this is talking about the future shabbos and now in isaiah chapter 6 uh 1664. 64 verse 3. look at 19. this is a famous concept where of no and whereof no one had ever heard had ever perceived by ear nor i nor no eye has ever seen okay now this particular verse is used when they discuss the idea of what what all the prophecies for the prophecies the good prophecies all the good things are going to come to the world through prophecy mashiach the bliss all that good stuff do you know that you have to be sitting down for this that all those prophecies are the lower level gifts that we're going to receive the higher level gifts could not be described so for example when there's a discussion who's greater a completely righteous person or someone who's sinned and repented right about true as it says that a righteous person cannot stand in the place of a bathsheba well there's actually a mock locus there's an argument who's greater the completely righteous or the baltuva and then they go into the gamora and describe what the prophets describe is the lower level whoever is on the lower level that's what the prophets were describing and that's a and there's other categories of people who support thomas and do what not now keeping that in mind what we're trying to say is that the highest level reward that we're supposed to get that the righteous are going to get was never described by the prophets because it's beyond description okay and that's what isaiah 64 3 is talking about so that's why he's talking about it's nistar nistra means it's hidden okay and that's why it cannot be described and that's why it's talking about the shabbos of the future al qaeda civil guam came below in this star that's why it's speaking in a in a command form we're talking about verse 16 that's also a language of nistar meaning third person and not only that wait till you hear this it says lasso duro sambari lam to make a sabbath that should be um to make a shabbos for their generations forever as an everlasting covenant now keep in mind the word asea asea means to do to perform and it's not talking about our performance because the whole idea here is to guard and not do something so by guarding and not doing something on shabbos hashem is then doing something for us he's making our shabbos possible in the world to come and that's what it says in psalms that is the concept of asea hashem is doing for us look in psalms 31 20. it says how great is your goodness that you have laid away for those who fear you rav that's the first part of the verse but to whom to those who feared you right you're going to your goodness is going is hidden away safanta means like like ganesha like it's mamish hidden away stored up for you for who for those who fear you now this is the important words that god has activated says that you have worked capital y o u that hashem has made an effort has worked for those who take refuge in you in the presence of the sons of men so the asea here is again talking about hashem's reward that he's giving to us in verse 16 which is um nistar which is third person right the jewish people are going to keep the sabbath kadeshi by their observing shabbos by them keeping shabbos this causes hashem shabbas to make the that this is it's unbelievable hashem reacts to our keeping shabbos he's making for us like a mythol he's producing he's it's like a factory that's set up every time we keep shabbas with kavanagh with intent hashem is producing for us the reward of the eternal shabbos laduro sambari through right the for the generations laduro sam as a everlasting covenant that's bruce shallullah that is the covenant of the world to come of eternity and the the khan now keep in mind we said bene bayme ubene israel is coming before the words os it's coming before the word and to sign the occur that it's a sign forever and why is that the case keep in mind that the command precedes that for which the sign is indicative of okay and therefore ready for this anybody who carefully analyzes this these verses that what rebbe nussen is doing when he says that he said originally that um that if you keep shabbos properly it's like you're keeping shabbos from the beginning of creation until the end of time he set up these [Music] some type of you know book markers right these end zones and everything's included what is included meaning both concepts you're keeping shabbos very sheet and through that you're also getting okay i hope this was a fascinating piece and i had some questions from one of the guys i learned with and we want to go back into the unix of isaiah 56. many people have come to me and asked me it says let the foreigner who has joined himself to the jewish people to join himself to hashem why can't that be talking about a non-jew can it be talking about a non-jew so the thing is is about keeping shabbos so a non-jew is not obligated in keeping shabbos can and non-jew observe or celebrate i'll say yes to a certain extent yes to a certain extent but this is a tivoi this is a command so every commentator that i've ever read on these verses they all say this is talking about a complete geritic someone who is completely 100 converted until yesterday until this morning there is one opinion that says it's someone who's in the process of converting i shouldn't even say that he says a candidate for conversion and i believe that most benenoch if they could convert they probably would convert there's a lot of things holding them back so in this is the um the art scroll to isaiah and he mentions this specifically okay so i'm going to read like this in verse 3 where it says let not the foreigner who has joined himself to hashem speak saying hashem will utterly separate me from his people the kaskar says a potential convert this is what this is what isaiah is saying that the potential converts should not say why should i become a jew if god will separate me from his peoples when they receive their reward meaning this is a a confusion on the part of a potential convert as well as even people who have converted they might say i'm not really jewish am i or even if i become jewish am i really on par with all the jews maybe i'll be like a secondary citizen isaiah is saying no do not say this for those foreigners who have joined up or planned to join up you're not second-class citizens not maybe in this world you feel that way but i assure you that in the world to come it is not like that you are a 100 percent on par and that might be what a potential convert or even someone who has already converted might feel and and truth is as we'll see even someone who doesn't have children might feel that way they might feel there's no continuity what am i if i don't have children what am i what have i left behind listen to this alternatively that that was all according to rashi by the way alternatively it refers to actual converts according to the ibn ezra who although they know that their children are jewish in every way are concerned that they themselves will not be considered part of the jewish departed people of hashem not in this world and not in the world to come according to the radak now if so they will have no interest in helping bring about the redemption in which according to their own fears they will be different from the rest of the jewish people according to the arbor arbanel therefore what is isaiah saying he assures the convert that he is a full-fledged member of the nation and as the verse continued not let the barren one say behold i'm a shriveled tree why an infertile person should not think since i am barren and now this could be someone who didn't have children either even if they weren't infertile since i am barren and doomed to be forgotten why should i try to improve my ways is it the whole point remember the whole point of life is to tico nemitas is to work on your character and if you think what's the point i'm not getting any reward for it i'm not part of the jewish people i'm a second class citizen whether i didn't because i didn't have children or as we said earlier about the converts no isaiah is saying that's not the case don't worry about that alternatively since the world is created for procreation now there's two ideas right besides pre-review that the jewish people have and that the world should not lay fallow without procreating according to from the non-jews so some might say well this means that god has no interest in me if i don't have children then what am i that's not true one should never express such hopelessness meaning it has nothing to do necessarily with children itself it has to do with the fruits that you produce through your actions all you can do anyways to get married try to get married some people are not measurable material but even those that that are not everyone is going to have children you do your best okay um this idea i mean there's so much other good stuff here but i want to just end with this i guess a blessing hopefully that everybody should know the people all over the world if you're jewish i hope i'm not springing this on you look into it keep shabbos observe shabbas look into the beauty of shabbos if you really knew how great shabbos was you wouldn't want to not participate you would be running forward to participate the only reason you're afraid and scared because you don't know anything about ignorance creates a lot of fear that's number one the other ideas for the non-jews you're obviously not obligating keeping shabbos really truly you're not obligated but you believe in god you believe in the bible you believe that the jewish people they keep shabbos there must be something to it look into it investigate about it but don't keep it as an obligation only a called a voluntary effort to celebrate shabbos and move from there one step at time wherever you go from there that's up to you in hashem maybe you'll become a true full-fledged gere toshav living in the land of israel with the jews keeping shabbos on a higher level who knows maybe you'll become a convert who knows wherever your journey leads you we want to see you here no matter what in jerusalem visiting us and being here with us at for dinner we have dinner 2 40 minutes before the class so uh you're invited to join us so we're wishing everyone shabbat shalom a really true shabbat shalom and have a great life and we'll see you next week [Music]