SHABBAT: The Price of Eternity PART 2 of 3 (5 Minutes)
Rabbi Yaron Reuven explains why violating Shabbat is highly offensive to HaShem. He states that HaShem created the world instantly but stretched it over six days to give humans a sense of participation in creation. Shabbat is meant to give people a feeling of being like HaShem, ceasing from creative activities. When people refuse to stop their activities for Shabbat, it offends HaShem deeply. Observing Shabbat with pleasure and honor brings abundant rewards in this world and the next, and can even forgive the sin of idol worship. To watch the entire 17 minute film and change your eternity click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGp0cl45ZlI&t=121s If you'd like to invite R' Yaron Reuven to give a lecture at your synagogue, home or office please call 917.468.2324 or email Yaron@BeEzratHaShem.org . Yaron Reuven is based out of Boca Raton, Florida, but travels around the world to give lectures to different groups. Visit us at www.BeEzratHaShem.org Click here https://soundcloud.com/yaronreuven/sets/daily-chidush To Listen to our very popular "Daily Chidush" short audio series on soundcloud.com Join one of our interactive "Interesting Torah" Whatsapp groups to get daily messages of short Torah clips that can uplift your day by texting the number above. Please join our Facebook page Be'Ezrat HaShem page and join our group "Torah Lessons To Help Our Lives". This Group is solely about publicizing HaShem's holy Torah from my lectures as well as great Rabbi's such as Rabbi Efraim Kachlon, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, Rabbi Zamir Cohen, Rabbi Pinto, and anyone else that is teaching interesting and relevant Torah. We will also bring you some brand new lectures directly from a Kollel in Jerusalem you won't find anywhere else. Torah posts will be in Hebrew and English. There are plenty of places to find entertaining stories that sound great, but this group is about showing you Torah that can impact your life, hence the name Torah Lessons To Help Our Lives. If it's not impactul, then it won't fit in. I watch and read all that I personally post, so I promise to do my best to bring you only the best quality of Hashem's amazing Torah. The Torah is the only thing in the world that you can learn and have an outcome that makes you SMARTER, WISER, And a BETTER Human Being. If the Torah you're learning is no longer impacting your life in a positive way, than its time for a change. If you haven't learned Torah in a long time or ever, then its time to start friend. I guarantee you will enjoy the journey and life will never be the same, if you just give it a real chance. Kiruv and Kiddush Hashem is our #1 goal. So please feel free to contact me if you are interested in getting more FREE material. We would be have to send you Torach lecture DVDs, CD's and a Book for FREE to anyone that is serious about learning them. If you are far from Hashem and His Torah, our goal is to get help you get closer. Thank you for the opportunity and May Hashem bless you with a life full of Torah #Shabbat #shabbatshalom #Judaism #Jewish #RabbiYaronReuven #Torah #Jews #Movies #Movie #jewishmovie #KIRUV 00:00:00 Intoduction 00:01:10 Six Days of Creation Explained 00:01:40 Hashem's Rest and Our Connection 00:02:37 Shabbat: Feeling Like a King 00:03:06 Offense of Violating Shabbat 00:03:29 Minimizing Ourselves for Shabbat 00:04:16 Reward for Observing Shabbat
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1:10But over the next six days, He put it in the right place. Why did He do it over six days? Why didn't He just do it in one day or one second? Okay, so I made the sun, I made the moon, I made the stars, I made the planets, grass, tens of thousands of different animals. Why did He take six days? Because He says, if I give Am Yisrael, which is the purpose of creation, one day a week, then every day is going to be the same thing. But if I give them six days a week, every day is going to be different. But if I give them seven days a week, on the six days they could work just like I, figuratively speaking, worked. But on the seventh day, I rested. Not rested like He went to sleep. Hashem doesn't go to sleep. Hashem doesn't rest. He doesn't need to exercise or wake up in the morning. Hashem says, I want to give my children a feeling to be like me. I want to give them a feeling to be like a king. I want to make them a part of creation. How can they feel this connection? They can't feel like Hashem, they can't create anything like He did. So what do I give them? I give them the feeling that I had on Shabbat. What's the feeling? It's the act of refraining, of stopping the activities of creation that I engaged in during those six days. I ceased creating, so they, too, are going to cease from creating on Shabbat.
2:37Which in essence means that a Jew is supposed to feel like a king on Shabbat. And that's why Hashem made Shabbat. But why does Hashem take it so offensively? Why is He so angry when we violate it? Because He's saying to you, I technically created the world in one instant, or less than an instant. In no time, Hashem doesn't have time. The past, the present, the future is all the same to Him. I created the world in an instant. Whatever an instant is, He created it in an instant. Right? But I minimized myself. I minimized myself to stretch it out for you. For you to feel like Me. For you to feel like you are part of creation. For you to feel like God felt on the second day. Instead of saying, "Thank you Hashem, Baruch Hashem for the Shabbat, I can't wait for the Shabbat, let me do great things for the Shabbat, I'm preparing for the Shabbat," what are you saying? Like that woman who said, "Yes, I don't want this diamond." I minimize myself, but you're not willing to minimize yourself, to stop your life? Hashem Yitbarach minimized Himself and said, "Oh, for this Jew,"
3:56I minimize myself. But he's not willing to minimize himself for Shabbat and stop his job, or stop his television, or stop anything else that he's doing. And that is very, very offensive. The Rambam says, Whoever observes the Shabbat and honors it and indulges in its pleasures to the best of his ability will receive an abundant reward in this world, in addition to the rewards set aside for him in the world to come. And the merit of observing Shabbat, just so you know how big it is, is such that all of one's sins can be forgiven. even if someone had worshiped an idol. Observing as the halacha dictates, he will be forgiven for it, even for idol worship. That's how strong Shabbat is.
