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Shmirat Shabbat Saves Brothers Lives
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Powerful story how Shabbos saved two brothers from bankruptcy and certain death.
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isaac and albert farquh are more than
brothers
they're also business partners it was a
regular friday night
isaac had his brother and his family
over for the meal he was making kiddush
in the middle of the kiddush the phone
started ringing they left the message
they're calling from the edt alarm
diagram company
go down immediately to your store the
jewelry store that they own together
there was a break-in in zone three zone
three is where the safe was
i looked at albert my brother said
albert what we gonna do what's the plan
they had in the safe jewelry that was
worth
between a half a million to a million
dollars and they knew that if there was
a break in there
they're done albert so isaac shabbat is
shabbat
we have no plan we give up all the money
takashi
the phone kept ringing again and again
and again throughout the meal they keep
calling they keep calling
in the middle of the night and again and
again isaac kept
reminding himself it's shabbat six
o'clock in the morning they was crawling
again and
i went to shore in the morning as normal
we did the shabbat morning meal
everything is
supposed to be it wasn't until after
shabbos
isaac picked up his brother albert and
they drove down to their store
the gate was closed the lux was closed
we opened the gate
and i told albert to stay outside i'm
going inside
my lot it was a mess there was glass all
over the place
empty boxes from the showcase was strewn
all over the floor i said to myself the
most important now not all this
the save the big steps that's what all
the gold all the diamonds all the money
is inside
i got to the safe room and i said wow i
see the safe is closed you know like
from outside
everything looks like normal i'm trying
to open the step
and i have like my hand shivering
usually we're taking 30 seconds to open
this time it took five minutes because
every time he got to the end he was so
nervous his hands were shaking
he had to start over finally he opens
the safe he opens the door
and he can breathe a sigh of relief
everything is there i was so happy i see
all the gold all the diamonds everything
inside and i went out to say albert
hashem that everything's inside the safe
but they're left feeling confused
because
the outside door was locked the safe was
untouched and yet
the glass was shattered all over the
floor from all the showcases and the
boxes were empty there was jewelry from
the showcase stolen
and they don't know how they got in or
how they got out as they were walking
around in their store there were cops
passing by
and they saw the store was open they
walk over to albert and isaac say what's
going on
i said we are the owner of the store we
got trapped we got trapped last night
take a look they say stay outside and
they went inside the store
the police officers are checking it out
they come out five minutes later they
said you know the alarm company called
you last night
where are you last night why you did not
come last night i said
listen last night was shabbat it's our
sabbath is the holy day we have from
hashem
we don't come even for millions or
trillion dollars we don't come for the
store we don't come for money we don't
come
shabbat is shabbat police officers were
just shocked they said your sabbath your
god
saved your lives say what are you
talking about what do you mean it's they
can't
i want to show you something they walk
into the store and they show him
on the ceiling there was an air
conditioning vent and they said
we've seen this before you see these
thieves they got onto the roof of the
building
and they lowered themselves through the
vent and what they do is
they activate the alarm purposely to get
the owners to come down to the store to
check it out
open the safe make sure all is good and
when the owners
open the safe they jump on them kill
them
and take everything in the safe with
them they were waiting for you
the entire night if you come guys last
night
they will end up your life in a minute
and they will empty the sieve and take
them one two three
your shabbat your hashem save your lives
the torah says the shamroo and israel
that bene israel kept the shabbos
throughout the generations throughout
the centuries throughout the millennia
we kept the shabbos but more than we
kept the shabbos
shabbos has kept us
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