Resting on Shabbat - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

I okay so now in terms of the the text i want i want to show you something two things very very interesting than fancy how many times it will be 4 11 this is the commandment about shabbos remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it I might come back to that but it's good for now come back to that but it's good for now six days shalt you work and accomplish all your work us an English reader would be forgiven if you thought that in the Hebrew was the same word but it isn't it's two different words with two different meanings the first one is work Thabo that means aching muscles sweat you know exhausted at the end of the day it means work the next one is malaha naho is not is not working that sense haha is some kind of activity usually haha is some kind of activity usually requiring skill some kind of training and sophistication we done better or worse does not imply any expenditure of effort indeed the word malaha could be described as follows it's something you do intentionally skillfully creatively physically something you do in the physical world that's done intentionally physical world that's done intentionally skillfully and creatively like tying a knot tying a knot requires skill two-year-olds can't do it and your loop accident just fumbling with the with it with the strings and it's creative it makes a bond between two strings and it's a physical change striking a match striking America Lisa potentially and it's creative it creates heat

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