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Shabbos Is Not a Break - It's the Center

4.7K views · Jan 14, 2026

Yaakov Shwekey

A conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Diamond about the centrality of Shabbos.

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  1. 0:06Thank you so much for hosting us, Rabbi. It's uh I don't know if the public…
  2. 3:41harmony and so on and right away ra you start to say music you know that…
  3. 7:50visit people who were dying very sick people if he could take off from the l…
  4. 11:25project >> thank you so much thank really thank you um as far as the since…
  5. 15:33I'll take the interest. We went with a few people in the apartment. I told the…
  6. 19:13the mdish. You had describing how Bishar and yet he had nu how could he have…
  7. 23:17and faster songs and and he's smiling and somebody asks him a question what happened to…
  8. 26:51we we listen to and what we sing and how we >> I had to share…
  9. 31:00dance. And we start dancing. Now we're dancing and he's singing and they're loving and little…
  10. 34:39what would your advice be for someone like that? >> Advice to the boy himself? >>…

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