Why Keeping Shabbat is the Key to True TeShuva - Parashat Ki Tisa

There are only a couple of mitzvot that  are bound to time that women are obligated   to observe. One of them is Shabbat.  Why? Shabbat is for all of Judaism.   Someone that does not keep Shabbat by  driving on Shabbat, by smoking cigarettes   or hookas or whatever they smoke these days  on Shabbat or watching television on Shabbat or cooks on Shabbat or works on Shabbat. Unless any of those things are tied to meaning  they're tied to saving somebody else's life,   that person is violating Shabbat. So if somebody  is uh is dying and you have to cook them a meal   to save their life doesn't it's an unusual uh  Pikuach Nefesh you have to cook them a nice   juicy steak on the barbecue on Shabbat and  if you don't they're going to die. strange,   but let's say let's say it's a hypothetical  story. It's avah for you to cook them. Meaning,   you should not even do it in an unusual way. You  should do it as you would do it any other day.   Why? You're saving a life. If someone needs  to go to the hospital, it's a mitzvah to turn   on the car and drive the car to the hospital to  take him to the hospital. Mitzvah. It's not that   it's oh you shouldn't or you should be careful  maybe make sure that no one's watching. No, no,   no. Mitzvah to go take him to the hospital. Why?  You're saving their life mitzvah. But if you're   doing those things just for your own talon, your  own desire, you're cooking a steak because you   want a steak. You're working because you want  to just make money, not because you're a doctor.   You're saving somebody's life. You're a doctor  but doesn't really have to go work on Shabbat,   but you want to work on Shabbat because you want  to buy an extra boat. You want to buy an extra   car. You want to buy an extra diamond. You want  to make more money. You're not working to save a   life. You're working to make more money.  Like there's one guy that stopped coming   to my shim because he says, "I already did  Teshuva." I said, "I'm not so sure." He goes,   "Why? I keep Shabbat. I keep Shabbat. I  did teshuva." I'm like, "There's a lot   more than you know than just keeping Shabbat and  probably you don't know Shabbat." He goes, "No,   no, I'm okay. We're having this conversation  on Shabbat. In the middle of the conversation,   middle of the conversation, he tells me, "Uh, oh  yeah, you know what? I have to go check my phone, phone, Shabbat." I'm like, "Walking in the neighborhood and he's like,  "All right, hold on. I got to go check my   phone. Where do you have to check your phone?  Shabbat." Goes, "No, I'm a doctor." I'm like,   "You're a dentist for little children. your  dentist for four year olds that have parents   that are probably not so smart sending their  kids to dentists because the kids tooth are   going to fall off anyway. It's all teeth that are  not going to stay anyway. They're four-year-olds,   but they want their teeth to look like movie  stars. So, they send them to a family dentist for   kids even though none of the teeth are going to  stay. They're all going to fall off. But whatever,   that's your job. Good for you. But you can't.  No, I'm a dentist. I'm like, it's not. But I did   chuba. I did teshuva. I did teshuva. Everybody  thinks they did teshuva. Everybody needs to do   teshuva. The need to do teshuva. The teshuva need  to do teshuva. The rabbis need to do teshuva. The   need to do chva. The go have to do everybody has  to do teshuva. Everybody has to do teshuva for   something. So someone that drives on Shabbat to  go save a life. Why? It's a mitzvah. But if you're   driving on Shabbat because you feel like driving  or because you think you're saving a life, but in   reality you're not. You're just going to make more  money, you're violating Shabbat. Now, if you think   that you're going to save a life, meaning there's  someone that's a woman that's about to give birth,   that's considered. You take her to the doctor,  you drive on Shabbat, take her to the doctor, they   get it to the doctor, and as it happens so often,  they say, "Oh, no. It's just a uh thing where you   don't have to uh you're not going to have the baby  right now. Come back in a couple of days. It's not   you're not due yet. It happens sometimes the woman  has contractions and doesn't happen to be that   she's not giving birth. Did you violate Shabbat  now? In the beginning it was mitzvah. But now   you didn't save any life because the doctor says  no baby. Is it now a sin? No. Still mitzvah. Why?   At the time it was at the time it was neph. Still  mitzvah. But you now have to go back home though.   You have to wait till the end of Shabbat. So now  if somebody violates Shabbat, this week's para, it's like Hashem coordinates with yours. Hashem said to Moses, saying, "Now you  speak to the children of Israel, saying,   "However, you must observe my Shabbat, for  it is a sign between me and you for your   generations to know that I am Hashem who  makes you holy." And the next verse says, "You shall observe the Shabbat, for it is holy to  you. Its desecrators shall be put to have death   upon death. For whoever does work on it, that  soul shall be cut off from among its people. So here is one of the sources of what  it means to violate Shabbat. Hashem is   tells Is this Shabbat, that's the deal.  That's the covenant. Meaning no Shabbat,   no deal. You could keep every mitzvah in the  book. You could create mitzvot. You don't keep   Shabbat. No deal. Noah. How do we know?  From the literal translation of the verse   itself. We're not even looking at commentary.  Simple translation. First and foremost, he says death upon death. The desecrators have death upon  death. Mumat is two deaths. So first death means   that in the times of the san times of the beta  mikdash they would actually kill them on the spot.   If there is evidence that this person violated  Shabbat there is witnesses he violated Shabbat   they kill him. How the most vicious hardest death  penalty of all. There's four different types of   death penalties. This one is the worst one. Why?  This is the worst sin in Judaism. Now the Gar says   okay now there's no more san there's no more death  penalty. It says even though there's no more death   penalty because there's no sanit there's no beta  mikdash the death penalty still applies only now   it's from heaven and they give an example he says  someone that violates Shabbat by let's say for   example working his cow or riding his horse the  equivalent of driving a car will have a bull run   over him sounds simil familiar here. It's called  a car accident. It's called an airplane crash,   a September 11th, a terrorist attack. Same thing.  There are an enormous tens of thousands of Jews   die every single year because of car accidents.  It's not an accident. It's from Shamine. It's   from Shamine. And there's an unusual number  of them dying while driving on Shabbat.   Yeah. In Israel specifically, that's  where they did the study. Huh. Israel,   huh? There you go. 33% according to Amos'  research, 33% of all accidents in Israel happen   on Shabbat. Meaning that Shabbat is only one day  of the week. It's one day of the week. It's a   uh 14% of the week. 14% of the week has 33% of  the deaths. So that's the first m that's the   first death. Second yumat. What is yumat? Yumat  means it's the second death. How could such a   person die twice? They don't die twice. It means  that the second death is their dies. No more. But then if that wasn't enough, it says and that soul shall be cut off among his  people. If cut off would have meant death,   then we wouldn't have had the first two words,  but it's all in the same sentence. You already   died once. You already died twice. This  world and the next world. What's what   does it mean? The soul is cut off from  its people. According to the Rambam,   that literally means that person's Judaism is on  suspension. They are now in the eyes of Hashem   considered 100% an idol worshipper. That's like  90% of Jews. However much it is, sad as it is,   it's a reality. Sad as it is a reality. Currently,  according to PW Research Center, 90% of the   Jews in America do not observe Shabbat. So, if  there's approximately 6 million Jews in America,   5.4 are considered 100% idol worshippers in the  eyes of Hashem. If that doesn't make you sad,   you should double check if you're actually  Jewish because one of the of a Jew is mercy.   If you don't have mercy for your brother and  sister being considered an idol worshipper in   the eyes of Hashem, the only eyes that matter  is a problem with you more than them. They're   probably violating because they don't know.  You know, and you don't care. It's a problem. So anyone that is looking for ways to uh  better his situation, protect himself,   protect his family from the horrific situation  that's around us, the terrorism and everything   else, they must understand that the only  way is to increase to more, more life.