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If you are Jewish currently, there's no
question whatsoever. You are not allowed
to violate Shabbat for any job in the
world, unless your job is saving lives.
Literally, you're a doctor or a surgeon
of some kind. Uh you know, something
that has to do with saving lives on a
regular basis. If it's not, if you're
just, let's say, I don't know, some type
of engineer or sanitation department or
whatever regular job you have, there is
no permission whatsoever for you to
violate the Tawra and violate Shabbat.
No permission. So, you have to tell your
job, I'm sorry, I'm not going to be able
to work on Friday's uh past afternoon,
let's say 12:00, 1:00 in the afternoon
cuz I got to get home for Shabbat.
And pray to Hashem that they let you do
it. And even if they don't, you do it
anyway. I have a guy that uh years ago,
maybe six years ago, he was working at
AT&T
and before he met me, he was an atheist.
After three lectures, he was already
keeping Mitzvot. But he had a problem
with Shabbat. Why? Because the company
he was working for at the time, uh AT&T
uh had a schedule with a where a uh you
know, he would work on Shabbat. That was
a schedule they gave him. He would work
every Shabbat. And so he would keep
Shabbat on Friday night, but then he
would go to work on on Saturday. Because
he said, "If you don't come in," he
asked him, "Can you let me go on
Shabbat?" And he said, "No, you have to
work at your schedule uh you know, you
you have to get uh to work, you know."
So after that, he told me, "What do I
do?" I told him, "You don't show up. You
can't work on Shabbat. You can't." He
said, "Yeah, but they're going to fire
me." I said, "No, don't fire you if they
fire." He goes, "I want to eat." I said,
"Hashem is the one that's going to
decide whether you eat." It took him a
little while to get the guts to do it.
Uh but one day he decided that he's not
going to go. He asked the boss, "Can I
take off Shabbat?" The boss rejected him
again.
So he just simply didn't show up on mut
Shabbat. He turned on his phone and a
bunch of messages. Where are you? Where
are you? Where are you? The next he
figured that when he goes back to work
that next day, Sunday, he's going to get
fired. He walked into the office into
the thing and he sat at his desk for a
little bit before going on the field and
then the boss came to him and said,
"Where were you yesterday?" He said, "I
told you. I told you I can't work on
Shabbat." He says, "Listen, don't ever
do that again. I'm going to fire you."
And he had again the courage to say,
"Listen, it's not about you. It's I'm
not trying to go against you. I'm just
saying I can't work on Shabbat. It's my
religion." And the guy was nasty to him,
saying, "Listen, you do that again, I'm
going to fire you."
So, the conversation ended in that way.
The next week, again, he didn't show up.
Again, he didn't show up.
The uh boss called him a few more times,
not as much as the week before. The next
day, he said, "You did it again. Listen,
I'm I'm g I'm giving you one last
chance. You're a good guy. I like you.
You do good work, but I'm going to fire
you if you keep doing it."
The next week, he did it again.
Boss was on vacation. Didn't say
nothing. He was on vacation. Next week
he did it again. He was on vacation
again. The next week when the boss was
back, he came back. He did it again. No
calls this time. What happened? Boss
didn't say nothing anymore. After 3
months,
he was already keeping Shabbat order for
a few months. And the boss didn't tell
him anything anymore. And after about 3
months, Hashem gave him some success in
a few different things. A few customers
want to do business with him. He ended
up opening his own company,
you know, made ended up making a lot
more money for honoring the Shabbat who
gave a lot of promise. So that's the
thing. If you're a Jew, there's no
permission whatsoever for you to violate
Shabbat. Not by a minute, not by an
hour, not by nothing. No permission. If
you're not Jewish and you want to
convert, then obviously you have to make
arrangements for you to change somewhere
down the road. But you don't have to
quit your job now. you don't have to
quit your job now because you're
technically you're not obligated to keep
Shabbat uh cuz you're not Jewish. So, uh
but if you're a Jew, you have to uh keep
Shabbat 100%.
Thank you for
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