Why 50% Shabbos Doesn't Work

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So this is the project Rabbi of Zamiro Shabbat. It's a book. It's music. It's bringing me back a lot of the older songs I grew up with Ashkanaz a lot of even some and of course could I had everything in my home and I wanted to know coming from your perspective as a as a rabbi as a a person that's involved with a lot of the community what do you feel in terms of Shabbat of the community the Shabbat can look like at the table and you can go back even to your youth if you're comfortable with of how your Shabbat looked like and how uh you know what do you take out of it? >> Right. So growing up as a little child in Aleppo, Syria, I was to be there till the age of nine. So looking back at the Shabbat, what I can remember, all I remember about Shabbat was the Shabbat table and the bet because that's really what Shabbat was. Friday night was a Shabbat meal. Then Shabbat morning before over there they used to pray early. There's no minan after seven o'clock. Seven was like the latest because they had already se they would eat at 10:00. That was Shabbat in the morning. That's that's what I remember. So that was in the morning. They prayed early 7 o'clock and we would wake up two hours before that to go to bakashot. They would sing. You have people sitting in

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1. 0:04So this is the project Rabbi of Zamiro Shabbat. It's a book. It's music. It's bringing…
2. 4:14to his father, to his mother? When did that happen? When did our closeness take place?…
3. 8:24around to understand that this was the product of a lot of hard work, just like…
4. 12:36only music can express certain feelings that the nama is able to express to its creator.…
5. 16:42not a betin. It's not a court. It's not a place where people have to wait…
6. 20:45take I don't know an hour a day of my time to write a song. Now…
7. 24:52Hashem, you gave your nation a day of rest and holiness. That much I think everybody…
8. 29:00Shabbat correctly or are we not giving over Shabbat what it's supposed to be? Why is…
9. 33:08to visit her friend her neighbor next door. And as she walks into the door she…
10. 37:14just transforms the person. So the people that have again the the the technology and all…

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