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The Splendor of Shabbos #10: Candles, Kiddush, and Gaining Clarity

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Rabbi Hillel Shaps

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all right so last week we discussed the idea of zah and shamur zah remember the chabas shamur guard the chabas and uh how they were said by God in one utterance and the reason for that how they are uh mutually necessary to each other and that's why they have to had to be said in at the same time we had a few different ideas of why um in general though the idea of Zar remember the though the idea of Zar remember the shabas um speaks to the positive Commandments of shabas the idea of making kides um and as it appears in the first set of Ten Commandments over there it says it talks about because God created the world in six days and resting on the seventh it relates Z remember the shabus to the chabas of creation and uh and we explained that the the uniqueness of the seventh day the Holiness of the seventh day comes the Holiness of the seventh day comes from the fact that that's the day that God rested on there you know otherwise what's special about day seven that's what's special about it is that it's the day that God rested and so the sanctification the Zar The KES of of chabas relates to the shabas gracious the first chabas the chabas of creation sham more which appears in the second side of Commandments is uh is about um refraining from the

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  1. 0:04all right so last week we discussed the idea of zah and shamur zah remember the
  2. 4:42passage and he said I've seen that I've seen those who are careful to make sure
  3. 9:52suggestion as follows the gar says so rather say that walking that is defined as characteristic
  4. 14:29the vers is so so we say we say it was the sixth day and God
  5. 19:37from earlier sources really it's in order to be able to get in the uh the
  6. 24:43doesn't say the second day it just says Y and it says the third day a
  7. 29:19says the sixth day the extra word is somehow hinting the idea that the sixth day
  8. 34:35world um be the ones that everything there is is is made for and so so
  9. 39:16says is really dependent on the sixth day and it um it completes it it fulfills
  10. 44:24during the week come shabas you you get the ultimate reminder that it's it's for me

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