Rabbi Reuven Lauffer - Basic Judaism: The Concept of Shabbat

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okay let's have a look let's talk about shabbos um it's a it's a you know of course it's one of the most one of the most central dimensions of our lives um let's deal with a little before we start talking about the various all the various laws which are very very complex and very intricate let's just talk about the concept of chavez itself um there's a very beautiful there's a commentary by somebody called rebecca he has a book called the cada kemak it's very early and he writes over there something very beautiful you know there are two ways of approaching shabbat bless you there are two ways of approaching shabbat there is a standard way so today we counted today is hayong young rishon meshabis right today is the first day in the week and then tomorrow will be the second day of the week and the next will be the third day of the week until we finally will get to our young chavez kodesh and that's you know the seven days of the week by the way just if anybody here is interested in a in a freebie um if you want to do a freebie mitzvah if you when you when you uh recite the psalm of the day it's preceded by what day of the week it is so today we said young young with sean the shabbat this is the first day tomorrow we'll say yum yum yum it's the third day and the fourth day when you do that you're actually fulfilling a positive knitter right because the positive mitzvah to remember shabbat one of the six things that we're supposed to remember constantly uh is zach that we have to remember shabbos and therefore we uh we uh when you say today is the first day

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1. 0:16okay let's have a look let's talk about shabbos um it's a it's a you know…
2. 3:54holiness of shabbos that spills out into sunday monday tuesday hold on a second and then…
3. 8:11emphasis on the spiritual but the beauty of shabbos is that we're going to do that…
4. 11:50physicality around us to be able to do that right so for example you know any…
5. 16:07night because something more interesting is going to be going on right and shabbos becomes a…
6. 20:23they like the cat they've already brought it's already shabbos now so they can't light the…
7. 24:09the rise and then they make the broker by men we don't have that problem because…
8. 28:17you would normally wear you know put the table mate make the table look nicer than…
9. 31:52sees my friend sort of like staggering so he says to him ah he says why…
10. 36:02miserable he said to shove this morning when he got up he realized that you know…

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