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People think the Sabbath is about rules.

  • By Rabbi Landau
  • Duration: 32 seconds

Concepts: Receiving Shabbos

People think the Sabbath is about rules.

Rabbi Landau teaches People think the Sabbath is about rules.

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People think the Sabbath is about rules.
Don’t do this. Don’t do that.

That’s only the surface.

The Torah gives two words for Sabbath:
Shamor and Zachor.

Shamor means guard it.
No work. No fire. No creating.
That’s the structure. The container.

But Zachor means remember it.
Carry it in your mind.
Carry it in your soul.

That’s not about laws.
That’s about consciousness.

You can spend 25 hours technically “keeping” Sabbath
and never actually enter it.

Because Sabbath isn’t defined by what you avoided.
It’s defined by the state you stepped into.

The real question isn’t what you stopped doing.
It’s this:

Do you walk out of the Sabbath at Havdalah
or do you let the Sabbath walk out with you?

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