This is the Greatest Shabbat Ever: Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston on Shabbat HaGadol

[Music] welcome everyone to the year but at Beit Midrash online yes we are streaming from Jerusalem and I welcome you all home to Torah so today is a very important lesson I just want to mention that this Shabbat is called Shabbos huh God Oh what does that mean the great Shabbos and I'm gonna call it the greatest Shabbos ever however it was a paradigm it was a lesson for all time that what we do on Shabbos is going to bring power into the week just as I expressed in previous videos that what we do in terms of preparation the six days you need six full days of preparation those six days is what makes your Shabbos if you don't cook and you don't clean you have nothing to eat and you'll sit around in the dirty house obviously preparation is is one of the keys to any success in life right if you're in university or if you're in your Shiva or if you're in a business it doesn't matter what you're doing if the if you put in enough preparation you will succeed right then we need if you don't put it this way if you don't prepare the likelihood of succeeding is diminished okay it's very simple you don't have to be a religious person to understand this very important concept so therefore if you cook and you clean and you prepare and you wash your clothes and you take a hot shower before Shabbos and you like your candles you turn on off lights whatever it is you will enjoy you will enjoy you will have some some benefit from your preparations now Shabbos is not about us enjoying necessarily it's a mitzvah to enjoy it but it's all about God it's a statement of fact we're giving testimony were witnesses we're stating a fact that we believe by not doing what we call Malaka it's specifically 39 creative acts and they're sub categories we are stating emphatically that we believe not just in our mine's not just in our hearts but even in our speech and our actions the way we walk the way we dress the way we eat okay everything is a testimony that there's a Creator who created the world ex nihilo now I just want to give this a little bit of an introduction right this idea of this particular Shabbos called Shabbos a god though it's called the great Chavez so I just wanted to mention a few things before we get started I don't want to forget and that is the preparation for Pesach ok Shabbos segundo is the Shabbos to come straight for a pace off and give Annette has undertaken to feed as many people as possible who are unlocked down locked down because of the the virus and the the pandemic of kovat 19 there are people who are other financial stress so we are will be will be distributing hundreds of meals in addition we will be giving out I don't know what you call it stiffens financial grants to people that are a need for the whole holiday so they can buy food and this is also a preparation because every one of us is obligated to take care of everyone else in fact there's actually a head tax okay it's called mouska team so everyone must give a certain amount to help the poor in their city now the truth is where you shall I am you really should help the people in your own locale first and then secondly you should be definitely have Jerusalem on the top of your list meaning second on your list but near the top so we are just one of many brush M so many people are trying to do whatever they can to help people at this particular situation and at this time so I will have a link down below so I will put down below in the description box a link so you can make a contribution to the Year Burnett Khimki the Pisgah fund but also I will be discussing a lot of Halle hook but I'm going to do it only in brief and I want you on your own to investigate further and I will also add in the description box below several links because I do not plan to go into great depth in something some terms of these helices I'm gonna try to keep what I'm going to say more metaphysical and spiritual and I will introduce you to certain halakhic called the ritualistic or very detailed laws I'm only going to introduce you to them and I want you on your own to follow up with further investigation and and this is all going to help you in your preparation and you'll realize hopefully we should all realize how important this preparation is towards a Redemption ok so the first source that I would like to give you a concept about and now you could find in the chakra Naru in tough Lama that means 430 chapter 430 in the laws of Pesach now I want to quote a few things first from the stroke Leonora harav did this Shabbos before Pesach we call it it's called Shabbos 'god oh that's the name and that's what the should the halacha deems fit that we should call it that and why is it because a great miracle occurred unbelievable what miracle happened to us in Egypt that's when we took the Sheep this passover lamb on the 10th of Nisan as it was described in the Torah on the 1st of Nisan this will be Rosh Chodesh on the 10th you supposed to take this lamb on the 14th you're going to slaughter it on the 15th you're going to eat it now think about this a second there are going to be three days where you are required to stay in your home where you're required to take this sheep and tie it to your bedpost which means the innermost room of your house to it to guard it and to examine it against any blemishes the kerbin Pesach can't can only be blemish free ok cannot have any blemishes and why was it such a miracle that's gonna be the question I mean come on just taking a sheep and putting into your bedpost that that is described as a miracle okay so let me explain the Sheep was the deity one of many of the deities of Egypt in fact if you heard me discuss this before when Yosef met with his brothers and revealed who he was and Yaakov comes down and he gives them advice this is what you tell Pharaoh if he asked you what is your occupation why is it so important for Yosef to tell his brothers they know what they do for a living so the idea is that he told them to tell Pharaoh you're shepherds why why is it so important to tell Pharaoh that you're shepherds and the verse says because it is an abomination in the eyes of the Egyptians what does that mean that the Torah itself says these words it's telling us number one that Yosef was preparing them for the long exile you must separate from the Gentiles okay you we want we don't want to assimilate and we don't want to intermarry okay it's important not to marry the the non-jews so how we're going to accomplish this if we tell Pharaoh that we are shepherds which is an abomination it's like if you went to Indian said on the cowboy or a rodeo professional they're gonna take offense to that so going to Egypt and telling them you are a shepherd is an offense it's an abomination and by saying this this would help ensure and that they were not intermarry because they would be put away into an area called ocean where yes it's true that there were lush grass the blood lush pastures so they could feed their their animals at will but you know what because because of the fact that they had a because they were shepherds so like like in India you see a cow crossing the street all the cars just stop so they would want to give them the most lush areas because that's their God okay that was their deity so this insured number one a good healthy place to farm the meaning productive and number two that they would be isolated and not able to assimilate so easily because it's a very important lesson so what happens on the 10th of Nisan God called the Jewish people the Israelites to take the Sheep who is the Gyptian God and the Egyptians did not riot they did not have any pogroms no Jews were killed or even spoken ill about which is a miracle that is the miracle that the Jew is able to stand up and say this is wrong ok you your God we are going to slaughter the false ideas that's what Ivry that's what a juice stands for slaughtering falsehoods and lies illusions ok that is what the Jews danced with that Abraham did Isaac Jacob and now the descendants thereof are going to stand up for God there's one God who created the world now that happened on Shabbos what is so significant about Shabbos let me just explain it we just mentioned it was on the tenth ok we left on Thursday that's what young huh me she okay so you're talking about day 1 day 2 day 3 that's three days of observing so there's no blemish on the fourth day we slaughtered and on the fifth day Thursday we left Egypt that's the 15th okay so we're talking about the 10th what is it about the 10th in history anything significant there's a few significant events that happened and this is going to help us answer why is it that when the 10th falls out not on Shabbat actually this year is amazing because this year the tenth falls out on Shabbos just like it did in the original the very original living of Egypt three thousand over three thousand three hundred years ago now why is it that no matter what year it doesn't always fall out on Shabbat and yet we celebrate Shabbat that the miracle happened why shouldn't we and we believe we should right it should be the tenth if it fell on a Tuesday or a Wednesday or right what why why is it we always celebrate on Shabbat no matter what even if it's not the 10th it's the Shabbat that fell before the leaving of Egypt that we always celebrate this amazing Shabbat this great Shabbat that we're going to read melaque right we'll talk about that at the end the the prophecy of elyo and avi prophet Elijah coming and declaring let's go man let's go to the promised land okay so what happens before what was the question why is it that it's Shabbos now many other things happen on the 10th unfortunately there's a sad thing that Miriam passed away on the 10th of Nisan so maybe that's the reason we don't celebrate the 10th that could be but there's something even much more significant than the death of Miriam that happened on the 10th and that's something that we all experienced as a nation it says in Joshua okay that it doesn't say specifically but you can figure it out very simple math that they entered the land of Israel on the 10th of Nisan how do we know I'll show you the version shortly we have Moshe dying passing away on his birthday we know the date is the 7th of Aadhaar and the people mourned for him for 30 days meaning they didn't move they didn't do anything and then at the end of that 30-day period Joshua tells the people in 3 days we're moving on I'm a crossing the Jordan River so from the 7th of Nisan 7th of Aadhaar until the 7th of Nisan that's the 30 days and then you have three additional days on the 10th of Nisan we come into the Land of Israel which is something to celebrate okay that would be a very significant thing however huzzah the rabbi's do not want to to be lost in to this idea by celebrating not on the 10th but celebrating on Shabbos because we're going to learn how important Chavez's not only is the preparation for Shabbos important in the fact that that will enhance the Shabbos but the Shabbos itself what you do how you behave how you think how you talk how you walk how you mean how you dress it's all going to have an impact on that coming week which is the week of redemption okay so just if you open up into Joshua and go to chapter one verse I believe it's 11 let's go to 10 and Joshua ordered the marshals the people saying 11 circulate within the camp and command that people saying prepare yourselves provisions because in another 3 days you will cross the Jordan to come to inherit the land which Hashem your God is giving to you as an inheritance and I already mentioned back in Deuteronomy it mentions that the the people had had mourned for Moshe for 30 days okay so if you go to Deuteronomy chapter 34 there's very last few lines so he'll start at 5 you can start 7 let's say 7 Moses was 120 years old when he died his eyes would had not dimmed and this had not diminished the children of Israel be wowed Moses and the plains of Morrow for thirty days then the days of tearful mourning for Moses ended and right away it tells you that you're sure the son of nun was still with the spirit of wisdom and we know from that point that was the three days that we just mentioned Joshua that was preparation again preparation prepare yourselves to enter the land there's always these ideas of preparation three days just like we had the three days of in the sieve on and before the revelation of the Torah there were three days of separation from our wives or wives from their husbands okay there were three days of preparation then this three days oppression in preparation over here by by Joshua before they came into the land so to the theme here is the three days of preparation with the Passover lamb as well so let me just interrupt this moment with our mystical teachings with some very practical challah hooked so in terms of preparation on the night before Passover which means on Wednesday night is this is the seder so we're talking about Tuesday night okay Tuesday night beef that means Tuesday night before the seder that night is the time for checking our home for huh mates whether you have a business or you have more than one home you must check your home ok so what is this mystical teaching even though we use physically a flame or in certain tight spots in our closets where God forbid a fire could erupt we could use a flashlight but it's best to start out with a candle and to find the places where the huh mates might be hiding might be left behind this idea is very mystical and we have other teachings on it this is not the time or place but it represents the gamut it represents blemishes that we may have inside of us it's all about character development and since the hummus represents the hater ah the y8 Sahara which it represents the negativity the negative character traits that we have and we need to get rid of them and to burn them to nullify them we'll talk about that surely but the first thing to do in the preparation process is to find them if you don't find them you can't nullify and you can't well you can we'll talk about that but the basic idea is a notification process are fixing or a ticker whatever it is that's involved and the first thing you have to do is be able to own up and find these things so then the next morning first of all before go to sleep of course they have to finish or bedico there is a notification process but that notification process should be said in your Latin language you understand and it's referring to that which you had found now the next day you're going to burn and right after you burn your huh mates which I think in this year there are other ways to get rid of it besides going out I heard it's best just to send one person so we don't have big crowds gathering around the fires that were in the set or to flush them down the toilet okay but basically you're going to nullify again after the burning even that which you have not found okay so keep that in order in terms of the hours I will put a link in the description box so you can find the exact times in your exact locale don't go don't go by The Times of Jerusalem but I'm going to announce the time to Jerusalem it would be forbidden to eat huh mates at 10:02 in the morning and you must burn your huh mates by 1122 in the morning and the wives it's forbidden to eat and you must burn by a certain point in time this goes back to the theme about the rabbi's when we have a rabbinic injunction it's always because they care about our souls having hummus when you own it is a punishment eating it is even a bigger punishment now that's what it says in the Torah so they already instituted not to eat and not to own it before midday because according to the Torah it's permitted from the Torah midday so they went ahead and added a CR the Torah offense God says guard my gardens and because they care about our soul they instituted these ideas what happens if it's a cloudy day you'll never know when exactly midday is okay today we have watches but this is the instance of rabbinic institutions their guard our soul so already two hours before midday it's forbidden to eat and one hour before midday you have to already get it out of your possession because according to the Torah if you sacrifice the Passover offering while still owning common he is has repercussions okay whether it disqualifies what kind of punishment that's not for today's class but it is highly problematic to own huh mates by the time midday arrives even though the truth is we don't sacrifice the Passover lamb until a little bit later than midday that's because there are other parts of the temple service that have to take place first and also there's a half hour added on but besides that you have the club in Tamid the daily offering and you have the lighting of the menorah and whatnot that has to take place before the the Passover lamb is sacrifice okay so now back to the mystic law I concepts here what is it about Shabbos so we know that when we take a look this idea that Shabbos is actually equal to the entire Torah can you fathom that if you keep Shabbos you observe showers or you attempt to it's as if you're attempting to keep the entire Torah in the good morn the Dharam if you look at Exodus chapter 16 verses 28 and 29 so it says the Lord said to Moses how long will you refuse to obey my Commandments and my teachings and then right away the Lord it says the Lord gave you Shabbat so Shabbat is equal to all the other misses and in Ezekiel chapter 20 verses 12 through 22 he mentions like this moreover I gave them my shop a tote to serve as a sign between me and them shava Thoth we're going to discuss this idea of two chávez's in a second but basically God so they gave them Shabbos to serve as a sign between me and them that they may know that it is i the lord who sanctifies them but the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness they did not follow my laws and they rejected my rules by the pursuit of which a man shall live and they grossly desecrated my shava Thoth so you see that the idea of Chabot Thoth is connected to all the laws in the Torah and later on the writings in the Hemi ax chapter 9 verses 13 and 14 you came down on the Mount Sinai and spoke to them from heaven you gave them rights rules and true teachings good laws and commandments you made known to them your holy Shabbat you were deign for them laws Commandments in the Torah through Moshe a servant there's a connection between keeping Shabbos properly and having true faith having an expression of keeping all the Torah basically when let me say all the turrets like idol worship is compared if you write worship idols it's like you desecrate the whole Torah here we're saying Shabbos is the antidote even if you're an idol worshipper god forbid even if you're not true with Hashem but you're doing your best to try to make it like that by observing Shabbat then there is a great salvation from that point now when I say those words because if we look in and this is in numbers it's in partial och it's chapter 15 in numbers verse 32 but basically we're talking about a person who went and collected wood on this Shabbat day that's Chet's verse 32 they found him gathering wood didn't know what to do with him so they went to Moses and Moses went to a Shem what are we going to do with him so what is it but wonder what is it about this the sadness that happened so Rashi tells us right there the verse speaks in disparagement of Israel value Bonet it's rep amid Barbie him - right they found this person so Rashi says do Tom show your LD Baraka tooth that the verse is not speaking very highly of the Jewish people at this point and why is that shallow Shama Ellis Shabbos reshawna because the Jewish people only kept one Shabbos in the desert shaniyah and the second Shabbos right away already this is the second Shabbos that somebody desecrated quite publicly person just one person let's create the Shabbos publicly and according to the way we understand it that the redemption didn't come because of this in other words had they kept the first Shabbos it had the Sun had they kept to Chavez's - then Messiah or Redemption would have come right away but this is a newt this is a it's disparagement of Israel that they only kept one Shabbos and this one came and desecrated it I just want to mention if you go to now Exodus chapter 16 verse 30 where God says let's say in 28 Hashem said to Moses how long would you refuse to observe my Commandments and my teachings this is another idea we're talking about Hashem is equating got all of his laws in his Torah to the Sabbath seeing that Hashem has given you the Sabbath that is why he gives you on the sixth day to day to day portion of bread let every man remain in this place let no man leave his place on the seventh day and this is the verse the people rested on the seventh day so the first Shabbos we were in the desert that we kept that was it the second Shabbos we didn't keep we didn't keep two in a row the second Shabbos that we failed to keep it was that Shabbos in numbers where the this person went and collected the wood now this is really going to come to answer quite a few of the questions we had okay we're going to read Isaiah chapter 56 verse 2 but what were the some of the questions we asked ready why is it that were not celebrating the tenth rather we're celebrating Shabbos we wanted we mansard that we want to bring in the importance of Shabbos but it's not just one Shabbos it's two chávez's I already explained them previous videos that what happens is the first shot is really only a preparation you need a starting point when God says keep the seventh day it can't be a random seventh day there's no such thing there has to be specifically six days of work and then the seventh day and it's a specific day so therefore we're talking about two chávez's even though we have a one statement that says mashach will come or redemption will come if all the Jews just kept on Shabbos and there's another statement and I have it right in front of me in cook your tests in Gomorrah Shabbos 1:18 being that if the all the Jews kept to chávez's the Messiah the the redemption would come so how can it be there's two very seemingly contradictory statements I mentioned the past that the first one doesn't really count the first one of two when you have a series of two is just a starting point therefore it's the second shot that's when you have the series of two that is a full preparation of six previous days that makes that Shabbos okay on the other hand if you only had one Shabbos how can that be so we're taught that one Shabbos is the second Shabbos that's the only real Shabbos so that answers that question and why is it that we're not celebrating on the 10th and the reason is because it's so important that we talk about the power of Shabbos going into the week okay so we already spoke about the power of the preparation but the Shabbos itself it's only through doing what a Shem says and when a Shem once and he asked us to do it that we're following we're being obedient that that is tremendous power in itself we're saying we believe in God and we're not just saying with our tongues and we're not just saying it with our or their hearts we're saying with our body as well we're dressing differently we're talking differently we're eating differently everything about us is going to be different and therefore that creates a tremendous amount of power by believing in God and making this testimony that we believe in God then God turns around and pleasing us it's very important to understand that that Shabbos was the greatest Shabbos of all that we took that sheep and we drew our hands away from idols because that was the idols of the Egyptians and we drew her hands away and then we took it with a let's just say a free conscious we did it because God said to not because we were involved we were we had been Idol worshipers in Egypt and we drew our hands as the verse says and then we took because God commanded us to do it and if we could just understand how important it is to experience Shabbos I will put a few links down below about the beauty of Shabbat how one can experience it I just want to mention we do have some non-jews watching this that a Jew is a hundred percent obligated to keep Shabbat in a certain fashion non-jews it's may be praise worthy it may be it may be the right thing to do but it must be as an option meaning voluntarily you can voluntarily observe my memories were observed celebrate ok Shabbat by declaring that there is one creator of the universe who create this world from nothing and you will get reward right as the rabbi mentions and the Mitzvah that you do you may receive reward so even though you're doing it I'm gonna say kill AHA you're actually doing it according to the letter of the law for a non Jew he must do it under the circumstances of voluntary ISM meaning he is doing it not as an obligation and that is the way you will get credit okay you will receive reward by observing Shabbat in a voluntary way which means not observing it in the way the strict matter of the law that did you must follow but with this I want to wish every single person who's watching this video a great Shabbos the greatest Shabbos of all time we are experiencing with a tenth of the Sun what originally happened to the Jewish people they did what God told them to do stay at home stay at home observe the blemishes check out the most internal possibilities for change if there is any need for a tikkun a need for a fixing a fixing of character now is the time to contemplate think about it you have the coming week this is it in terms of the redemption itself so when we go to chapter 6 and Exodus it's it's so full of the promises of this Redemption and I'm not gonna be limited to just redemption because they're the four languages of liberation and redemption so let's go through it it's unbelievable so after God tells Moses that I had already introduced myself to your your forefathers right as caljic i right but to you I represent I'm coming as Hashem moreover I establish my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan the land of their so joinings in which they so joined moreover I heard the groan of the children of Israel whom Egypt and slaves and I remembered my covenant that's right he is what escorted the breach as Coretta buriti I have remembered my covenant therefore say to the children of Israel Hashem and I shall take you out okay so taking out is the whole say cieth have I'm going to take them out that's the first one from under the burdens of Egypt I will rescue you the heat south tears hem I'm going to save you I'm going to rescue you from their service and I shall redeem you the gut LTS cam and I am going to redeem with an outstretched arm there's a great judgment I will take you little tsk I'm gonna take you to what to be for me at people and I shall be a god to you and you shall know that I am ashamed your God who takes you out from underneath the burdens of Egypt and the last expression which is not part of the floor because it has not happened yet but there's rata sham it will happen in its fullness many many Jews are now in the Land of Israel there's no doubt but God says very VCs Camela Eretz I'm going to bring you in to the land which I had raised my hand to give it to albumin he to give it to Abraham Isaac and Jacob and he's gonna give it to us as the heritage and this is something we look forward to in its fullness okay so with all that being said I wish everyone the greatest Shabbos ever and whatever we do in terms of preparation between now and then because update it's all for the good and whatever we do to experience this particular Shabbos in our homes locked away in private already contemplating getting rid of the idol worship getting rid of that sheep in terms of idol worship and taking on God's commandments whatever he says we will do and we will observe this Ratish em the best we can by speaking differently by looking differently at the world with hopefully rose-colored glasses and thinking positively I understand this is a tremendously difficult time for so many people but this is where you're gonna get your inner strength from your heart from your soul and be in touch with it and connect with a Shem and take that power the power that you use to connect with the Shemin shabbat into the week and may we see our true Redemption coming forth and we pray for the coming of the Redeemer mushiya that Caleb and hear the name of soon in our days and I wish everyone a tremendous hog kosher for Samara all the best have a great life and we look forward to seeing you after Pesach [Music]