Vayakhel: Resting is not so Easy | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Thursday morning. As we are approaching the holy Shabbat, my friends and of course this week a double header discusses the laws of Shabbat is very famous. The pas says in this week's par that you shall work for six days and on the seventh day is holy on the seventh day is a day of rest. And of course we know that uh this is juxtaposed juxtaposed uh this is right next to the commandment of building the Mishkan. And we learn from here what exactly it means to work on Shabbat. Don't do me what does that mean? What does it mean? What does me mean? You know flicking on a switch somehow is is not allowed. and uh jogging or carrying a very heavy box of you know soda up the stairs is allowed. Now you soda up the stairs is allowed. Now you tell me which one's easier. Walking 45 minutes or taking an Uber and pushing a little button on my phone. Which one's easier? Somehow the walking is okay but the Uber is not okay. If you asked me it's much easier to Uber but somehow the Torah says you're not allowed to Uber. You are allowed to walk for two hours if you need to someone's house in a hot sun, right? So obviously what what what does

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2. 2:33"Guys, there's an elevator." And they look at him and they said, "Well, thank you, sir,…
3. 5:41literally what Shabbat is. Seemingly what we're doing on Shabbat is we're resting because at the…
4. 8:14Shabbat is the purpose of creation. It's not creation and then Shabbat so that we can…
5. 11:20his pen down? What would happen if a sculptor never put his chisel down? My friends,…
6. 14:24over to you. Now you do your job. And from my perspective, it's over. Now I…
7. 16:59to view the world the universe mankind not as my project but as something independent and…
8. 20:03improve. You haven't let go. you haven't created. You're not going to be able to relate…
9. 22:38they're perfect. They're not perfect in the absolute sense, but they're perfect for me. They're perfect…
10. 25:43nothing's going to be perfect. You could always fix this and you could fix that. At…

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