"Shabbat: The Rest of the Story" Season 2, Episode 3

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http://JewintheCity.com What does it mean to "rest" on Shabbat? And what exactly do you do on a day of rest? JITC's wig by http://Freeda.com, JITC loves to shop at http://Junees.com

Shot and edited by Elliot Gabor: http://eliecreative.com

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  • Tell me why do you say SHABBAS when it's written shabbat and moreover it's pronounced in as SHABAT in Hebrew?

    Happy new year.

  • @gomunkul because i'm ashkanazi and we pronounce things differently. happy new year! :)

  • The following question is NOT to be controversial or critical of anyones observance, it is more intended as a point of technical clarifation. If I recall correctly the law on kindling fire during Shabbot also forbids gathering wood for a fire or putting out a fire. The point seems to be a limitation labor. Maintaining a fire was alot of work. Should merely starting a car engine then also be considered outlawed? As far walking is more effort then driving.

  • @VictorLepanto thanks for your question - but it's not the *effort* that we are prohibited from on the Sabbath, it's *creative* acts that we refrain from. It's the jogging vs. drawing example I give. You don't have to break a sweat to violate the Sabbath b/c G-d didn't break a sweat to create the universe.

  • @jewinthecity: Oh, so it is like being in Heaven in a certain sense. When we enter into our eternal rest.

  • @VictorLepanto kind of, actually. one of the things that we said about Shabbos is that it's m'ayn olam haba - that it's like a taste of the world to come.

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  • very cool!!!

  • great video

  • It used to be fun on Saturday nights when I worked at a video store near Lakewood NJ, omg...like I think it was 10:30 or 11 at night...all the Orthodox and Hasidic folks poured in by the dozens because Shabbos was over and the could use electricity again! I am a huge fan of your particular culture as I explained when I messaged you (meaning I messaged JITC)and it was always a fun part of night.

  • @jewinthecity: I've been told that the Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel said that the Sabbath is a kind of temple in time. As the physical Temple of Jerusalem was a point in space reserved for G-d, so the Sabbath is a point in time. A temporal Temple. Now I sound like I'm writing for a Star Trek episode.

    I actually own a copy of Heschel's The Sabbath, one day I might actually even read it.

  • The Maccabeats! (: I love them.

  • wonderful song.

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