Business Deals On Shabbat (14 Minutes) by Rabbi Yaron Reuven

[Music] most business is made with your lips most business just simple conversation so when many you have the K you say to hem thank you very much for giving us the Shabbat you do the K on the wine you do the k the bread you eat enough food for a week and all the great things and you start talking now if the conversation is about the you heard in the T the the all of those things the reality is that most conversations inat don't have much to do with that they give the kids maybe five or 10 minutes attention tell them oh give us the that you heard just to you know make them feel like they're part of the whole thing they have the kids say and the kid goes to sleep or goes to play goes somewhere else and everybody else continues back to their conversation and what's the conversation about oh that piece of real estate yeah that building I think I'm GNA buy it no that one no I think I'm GNA sell it that diamond it's a great piece I think I think I'm GNA invest in it I think you want to go Partners okay we we'll talk about after Shabbat you just made the deal now we'll talk about after Shabbat no no we don't make the deal now we talk about after Shabbat what a d Flawless no no it's a VBS it's a VB this VB that people M talk 100% business on Shabbat but you tell him you keep Shabbat come on of course I keep Shabbat shom of course I keep Shabbat didn't ra said all those things I said no it even says worse it even says worse what does it say on what does it say many of us know somebody that's a recent statistic by P Research Center that I read made me sick to my stomach first it said that 90% of American Jews do not keep Shabbat this is not a k it's sad it's horrible but out of six million American Jews only 600,000 keep Shabbat 5.4 million do not keep Shabbat this is a problem it's not the K I'm about to tell you though sad both me and you want to cry about it but there's something even sadder what's sadder the same research said that although 90% of American Jews do not keep Shabbat 94% believe it's okay to work on Shabbat 90% don't work on Shabbat but 94% believe it's okay to work on Shabbat meaning that 4% of the 10% which is really 40% 4% of the say now well you want to work you need to work listen has didn't give you work on shabb what can you do Hashem has to manage he didn't give you enough money it's his fault meaning 40% of the so-called religious Jews admitted say it's okay to work on Shabbat if you need to meaning the problem is not just with the secular people the reformed the conservative The Atheist the m anics and all the other stuff that's in between the problem is in the religious community as well and the reason why is because most people simply do not know the magnitude of Shabbat now I'm not going to go into the details that I went into in my sh about G that's not for here but I'm going to tell you a couple of small things that will shock you because most people simply don't know this according to the ramb inat chapter a Jew that violate Shabbat regularly not that he does it by accident if he does it by AC turns on the light by accident or something like that it's a different story he has to bring a has to give has to do CH but it's not on purpose someone that drives on Shabbat someone that smokes cigarettes on Shabbat someone that works on Shabbat which includes the people that think they keep Shabbat but they're talking business on Shabbat they're talking about diamonds and jewelry and business and the stock market and Bitcoins and real estate and pretty much a lot of people a lot of people those people someone that violates Shabbat on a regular basis the rambam says in Shabbat Chapter 30 in the eyes of hem he's considered 100% an idol worshipper why an idol worshipper why what's the what's what's what do one thing have to do with the other the idol worshippers is praying to Buddha this guy just did K on wine this guy just drove a car big deal he doesn't he beli you ask every most Jews you ask him do you do you believe in God they'll tell you yes most do you know who God is no not so much do you know that you have to do not so much you know that there's a reward and Punishment not so much but is there a god most Jews will tell you yes most you ask people that are really have some decent Heritage in bharian communities Israeli communities and so on most have some level of belief in hasem they don't necessarily know much about the obligations but they have they believe in God there's there's a starting point you ask them do you talk business on Shabbat yeah what's the big deal I'm only talking I'm not doing any transactions I'm not uh I'm not giving any many money just talking just words business is just words I built $100 million business with just words not once did I ever take cash not one time not one time my entire career for 16 years that anybody ever give me money in my hands why we didn't work with money work with digits computers you send money on a computer even when somebody would send a check I wouldn't see it it would just go directly into a bank it was all digital who deals with cash anymore what AM my ice cream truck who deals with cash nobody deals with cash it's all talking Mr Jones do you want to buy it's a million half dollars for so and so yes no yes if you say yes I make 60,000 today if you say no then I'll call somebody else and make 60,000 beginning end the conversation yes or no it's all talk but people think no no I'm just talking I'm not doing anything Shabbat and 94% of American Jews feel it's okay to work on Shabbat feel it's okay to work on Shabbat the rambam says those people are considered Idol worshippers and the reason why is just just like the idol worshipper replaced the source of all water with holes in the middle of the desert broken holes broken systemns like the Prophet Jeremiah says that can't even hold water just like he pray just like he replaced the source of all water of all good with nothing the Jew that talk business on on Shabbat the Jew that worked on Shabbat the Jew that's not keeping Shabbat same thing he replaced me with nothing he replaced me with nothing now how how bad does it really get in the second book of one of the that's asked is is Islam considered Idol are the considered Idol worshippers for the most part they're evil some are decent human beings but many of them want to kill us you do statistics a few Prager University and a few other major research houses did statistics it's not a conspiracy most of them want to kill us has nothing to do with uh us not liking them it has to do with them just wanting us to cease exist because that's their job in the world why did this happen by the way does anybody know the mid says something awful awful small actions big reactions all of us remember saru you heard s menu the wife of hasem said AB listen to your wife what does it mean listen to your wife she's a a bigger Prophet than you Sarah bigger Prophet than abah bigger Prophet Sarah made a mistake one time she mistreated haal mistreated her mistreated her she didn't act so nice tiny small thing okay she said something she did some things but she didn't kill her did a few things small things big deal no what's m what's the measure for measure hasem says just like saru mistreated hag her descendants Ishmael is going to torture until Mas comes small action big reaction shock of a lifetime when you understand what it means this is all part of there's no there's no solution other than ch now unlike the Christians the is according to the rambam that Islam is not idolatry it's not idolatry but Christianity is idolatry so Rim writes the details of why it's not idolatry but then he gives something that's mentioned in that is re very relevant to us us the says that if you have uncooked wine if you have uncooked wine and a idol worshipper touches the wine you have to throw it out you're not allowed to enjoy it by drinking it and you're not allowed to sell it either you're not allowed to enjoy it from consuming it or from any other way you have to destroy it once it's open yes you gave him a cup of K cup it's uncooked wine the idol worshipper shook it held it touched it even if it's the whole bottle the bottle is open or even if it's the whole Barrel the barrel is open the idol worshipper shook it a little bit garbage you are not even allowed to give it to your dog little Christian believes in JC Penney touch the thing that's it it's all garbage could be the whole barrel of wine could be $500,000 if it's expensive wine garbage not allowed to give it to dogs cats can't sell it can't do anything with it all you can do with it is throw it out same thing you can do with the wigs that come from in in India only Mitzvah you have with wigs from India is to burn it it's the only thing you can do with it other than that there's no other Mitzvah to do with it now that's because is detestable by hem it's disgusting to Hashem you've replaced everything with nothing part two if someone that's a Muslim Muslim touches your wine touches your wine what can you do it's open again it's open if it's closed it's a different story if it's open what can you do with this wine you're not allowed to drink it but you are allowed to sell it you're allowed to give it to your you're allowed to give it to a non-jew you're allowed to sell it you're allowed to enjoy it why cuz he's not an idol worshipper but you're not allowed to drink it Idol worshipper garbage not Idol worshipper you can enjoy it in some regards but you can't consume it shock of Lifetime if a shabat touches your wine he has the same Dean as the idol worshipper he has the same Dean as the idol worshipper the guy that praised to Buddha you must throw out the wine meaning even if the Muhammad himself comes and he touches the wine you're still allowed to sell it but your fellow Jew your brother your sister the you can't touch the wine if that doesn't make you sad about what's gonna make you sad it's a sin It's a Sin from the Torah as a matter of fact to give him to touch it is a sin you ruined wine to give him the wine to give him the wine is not allowed why you ruined wine not let to ruin wine your your brother your sister your father your mother somewhere it's relevant to you your your best friend from childhood just touch the wine you're not allowed to drink it not to do anything you have to judge it the same way as but the Muslim terrorist it's okay we can still sell it we can still make a few dollars off of it that's doesn't make sense but that's God why am I telling you these shocking facts because if we don't start understanding the significance of Shabbat we're all going to continue violating it even the ones to call ourselves sh Shabbat if you don't learn Shabbat you're guaranteed to be violating Shabbat [Music]