Who made The First Shabbat Violation In History?

0:29He's telling you outright what his opinion is. So it's not a rabbi that told us this. It's not a possible understanding that could be wrong. It's not anything like that. There are two really good examples. There are many of them. Shabbat is mentioned in the Torah more than anything else. But there are two really, really critical examples that we need to know. Because again, sometimes even if you're keeping Shabbat,

1:29Hashem says, if someone doesn't keep Shabbat, there is a consequence of death upon death and being cut off from the nation. So let's explain what that means. Now, if someone dies, they can't die twice, right? You die once, and that's it. So why do we say death upon death? The first death is in this life. The second death is in the next life, the eternal life. is in the next life, the eternal life. The next world, not this world. And the concept of the soul being cut off from the grave means they’re not considered Jewish. Cut off from the nation. What nation do we have? Am Yisrael. Am Yisrael is the Jewish nation. When someone is cut off, it means they've spiritually died. So you can't say that the soul being cut off means death again. He already died here in a spiritual sense, and in the hereafter. There's no more death in the eternal sense. So he's saying that you have, unfortunately, millions of Jews that, technically, according to the Torah, are not considered Jewish. Now, of course, they could all do teshuva (repentance), they could all keep Shabbat, and if someone keeps Shabbat from this point on for the rest of their life, and they do it because they love it, they do it because they believe in it, Hashem can turn all of the Shabbatot that they missed out on into mitzvot.

2:55And on top of that, you're still going to show up to Shamayim and say, okay, listen, you lived in this world for 50 years, 60 years, 30 years, whatever it is, and you didn't keep Shabbat. There were a few Shabbats you missed, but I know for the rest of your life you kept it. But how did you make up for those missed times? Technically, you still missed some Shabbatot. How do you make up for it? You help other people keep Shabbat. Help other people who don't know what Shabbat is; help them keep Shabbat. Because now, every Shabbat that the other person keeps, it also comes to your account. So now, instead of keeping one Shabbat, you have kept two Shabbatot. And if that person is married, then it's three Shabbatot. And if they have kids, let's say three kids, then it's five Shabbatot plus yours, making it six Shabbatot. If you help one family, it's like every Shabbat is seven Shabbatot for you. So, you are making up for 50 years of not keeping Shabbat. However, the most crucial thing is to understand the consequence of not keeping Shabbat. As far as death in this world, you see, you're going to ask, the first question that should come to your mind is, okay, somebody I know didn't keep Shabbat. He didn't die. He survived. So maybe there's a mistake in the Torah. No. So Hashem said, during the generation of Moshe Rabbeinu, when there were open miracles, people saw the words of God in the Shamayim.

4:15People heard Hashem's voice. People saw miracles every day. There was food from heaven coming down every day. Imagine every day you wake up and you have whatever you want to eat. You don't have to worry about working. Imagine you never have to do laundry. Every woman is probably excited about not doing laundry. I like laundry actually. You like laundry? Okay. I like to spend the money. I do laundry. I do additional laundry. Oh, laundry. Okay, so you're one in a million. So, not having to do laundry for 40 years. For 40 years we're in the desert, we don't have to do laundry. For 40 years we're in the desert, we don't have to go to the bathroom because the man (manna) is completely absorbed by our bloodstream. Completely absorbed. So, you have miracles every day. But technically, we still just got the Torah. Right now, we're more than 3,300 years after the Torah. After we received the Torah. So, we shouldn't have an excuse. We have had a long, long time. We should have gotten used to the Torah. But anybody that violated the Torah, let's say, a week after,

5:29We received the Torah. If Hashem were to, let's say, momentarily overlook and say, "You know what? I didn't see that. Don't worry about it. You violated Shabbat, it's no big deal." If Hashem thought that Shabbat was not a big deal, that's when it should be done, right? Someone who's already been studying Torah for 3,000 years would say, "Listen, you have 3,000 years. You have sages upon sages, rabbis upon tzaddikim, and so many books. You have hundreds of thousands of sefarim." that has been written about Judaism. So, by now, at some point, you've read the newspaper, or you could read one of my books. It says to keep Shabbat, right? So, we say that we don't have an excuse. But the person who violated it a week later—we just received the Torah—if someone violated it a week later, one might think Hashem would say, "no big deal." There was actually a story in the Torah about a person by the name of Tzlofchad. Tzlofchad was actually a tzaddik. He wasn't a rasha. He wasn't someone going against Hashem. But Tzelafchad took actions upon himself and violated Shabbat. This is a week after we received the Torah. We kept one Shabbat, and on the second Shabbat, Tzelafchad violated it. So now Moshe Rabbeinu, with this being the first violation of Shabbat, comes to Hashem. He puts him in jail and says, "Hashem, what do I do with him?"

6:56And if Hashem didn't think that Shabbat is a big deal, this is the time He should say, okay, you know what? They just got the Torah. They didn't learn yet. Let them go. He's a nice guy. He's a tzadik. He gave tzedakah. He goes to Beit Knesset. He wears tefillin. He does everything else. No big deal. This is the time He should do it. But that's not what it says. Hashem responds to Moshe Rabbeinu and says, kill him in front of the entire nation. Not only kill him, but kill him in front of everyone. Tzaddik, not a Rasha. Not someone that cursed Hashem or someone that went and became friends with the Egyptians. This is someone who's righteous. And we just got the Torah. We didn't even have enough time to learn the whole thing yet. We didn't even have enough time to get to know the Torah, and he gave him the worst kind of death. There's four kinds of death, four types of punishments. And the last one, he got sekilah, he got stoned. Even if he did it for Hashem Shamayim. And everything that he did was actually to sanctify Hashem's name. What will happen? To show the rest of the nation that Hashem is serious. That Hashem is serious about Shabbat. So now let me ask you a question. We just got the Torah. We didn't even learn all of it yet.

8:24But Tzelofchad violated Shabbat. He turned on the television on Shabbat. He switched a few stations on Shabbat. And Hashem said, "kill him in front of the entire nation." So if He didn't let him go, and he was a tzaddik in everything else, everything else he's perfect, but here, he violated Shabbat. Hashem didn't give up on that. Do you think He's going to give up on somebody today? after he's had the Torah for 3,000 years, he can't say, I don't know. You watch YouTube? Okay, you can watch junk, but you can also watch Torah. You know how to read? You can read Torah. You can't have an excuse, "I don't know." In today's world, there are very few people that can be considered completely unfamiliar with Judaism. Because in today's age, there's the internet, and there are people who are much more open about our Judaism. It's not like, back in the day, we were afraid to even wear a kippah. Back in the day, we were afraid to even wear a kippah. You know, maybe there are some places in the world, like France right now, where people are scared to wear a kippah, but in general, people know what Judaism is. No one can say otherwise. Even the Goyim know what Shabbat is. There's even a sect of Christianity, actually, right now that started to keep Shabbat the way they understand it. It's incorrect, but anyway, even Christians are starting to acknowledge that we're mistaken. Shabbat is not on Sunday; it's on Saturday.

9:44So even the goyim know that Shabbat exists. And that's also one of the other proofs, by the way. One of the best proofs that the Torah couldn't have come from a human being, one of the best proofs that it couldn't have been written by Moshe Rabbeinu, it couldn't have been written by Rabbi Akiva, it couldn't have been written by me or you or any human being. The only reason why there are seven days in one week is because of the Torah. There's no other reason whatsoever. There's no scientific reason. There's no other document that says that there should be seven days in a week. There's only one document that says there should be seven days in a week, and that's the Torah. It was written a little over 3,300 years ago, and until this day, it's the only thing that everyone agrees on. Everything else everybody disagrees on. But seven days? 24 hours? Everyone agrees. So the beauty of the Torah is that there's a lot of things that we see that we all agree with. There's a lot of things that we see that are true. There's a lot of wisdom in the Torah that shows that it had to come from a source that's far, far beyond us. When Hashem is telling you that violating the Shabbat is not a forgivable sin if you don't do teshuvah, He's not joking.

11:09It's not a joke to consider watching TV on Shabbat, driving your car on Shabbat, or playing with any electronic devices. These are connected to the concept of fire, which is not to be taken lightly. Some might argue, saying, “You know what, maybe electricity is not the same. They didn’t have electricity back then, so today it's different. Electricity is not fire.” Rabbi Mizrachi humorously, yet truthfully, addressed this when he said, “Okay, let’s test it. Let's test if electricity is fire. You hold a light bulb...” And if you hold it for five minutes and you don't go on fire, then it's not electricity. Obviously, it's going to catch fire. That's fire. Electricity is fire. It's 100% fire.