The Most Important Part of Shavuot

foreign so when a Jew starts thinking about Shavuot he has to think wait a minute what's the point of Shavuot why does Hashem make us celebrate the Shabbat all over again we got the Torah already why do we have to celebrate receiving a Torah all over again every year we did it already three thousand times what's the difference of three thousand one time the reason is because who gave us the Mitzvah of the um the Omer is counting you're counting every day 50 days what are you counting for most people say yeah because on the 50th day that's matantara on the 50th day you got what you got to throw up but that's not really right we actually got to tour on 51. 50 so how could we don't count 51 why do we count only 50. because of who says it's not the matantara that's so important it's the preparation and getting yourself ready to receive the Torah all over again every year that's the important part what did you do during those 50 days to prepare yourself to receive the Torah what did you do did you take on a new mitsva did you learn new Allah did you pray better did you do something or is it the same Jew that you hired last week and last year and the year before and the same thing nothing changes every year and that's why Abu Tai it's very important that a Jew takes on a certain Mitzvah between now and Shavuot we only have a week less than a week take on some type of Mitzvah that you never took before if you're learning every day let's say you learn an hour a day learn an hour and 10 minutes learn an hour and 20 minutes if you're not learning at all you have to learn you have to learn to walk says somebody doesn't learn you cannot have Allah there are many reasons for it but one of the reasons is because if you're not learning twice it's impossible for you to keep the basics of meets vote for example everybody heard of Shabbat most Jews even the ones that are most UN you know secular I've heard that Shabbat exists say a Jew that drives on Shabbat a drew that works on Shabbat a Jew that smoked cigarettes on Shabbat he's considered the Mikhail Shabbat and the Torah says in 12 places has no share of the world to come to such an extent that he's not his Judaism is on suspension meaning if you have to count amignan of 10 Jews you cannot count Shabbat as part of that minion why is Judaism is on suspension if let's say for example you want to say kadish and he wanted to say kadish he drives on Shabbat but he wants to say kadish you are not allowed to say Amen you know I would say Amen it's a sin to say I'm in that's Allah you say Amen you're sinning you ever sin in your mind sins don't mean uh you want to give him Shabbat you cannot give him one of the seven it has to be uh eight nine ten why why why all these different things you want to have a wedding you want to have two witnesses in a wedding if one of them is the wedding is not valid the wedding is not drought why because he's not a valid witness this is why yes with the razor he also has a very serious problem he also has a very serious problem because this is a person that made it a permanent part of their life to sin against the against the Torah so now first you have to tell them what does it mean to be Michael Shabbat according to the Torah according to the rambam according to subhanahu in seven places to ride in 12 places every Jewish book that's ever written about Torah and Shabbat Shabbat is considered at that moment the same thing as if he is worshiping an idol same thing he's in the same Deen either worshiper says kadish you can't say Amen Idol worshiper says I want to be the khazan you can't have the idol worship doesn't matter if he's Chinese or he's Jewish if he's either worshiper he says so now first and foremost we have to educate the Jews to let them know what does it mean to sin most people would tell them listen this is uh stuff like what I'm telling you now like oh this is going to distance them away even further that's wrong that's a wrong mentality and I'll give you two proofs number one somebody that's already considered an idol worshiper according to the Torah it doesn't get further than that you don't get worse than that you're already sleeping you're already far away if he's consistently driving to school for 20 years there's no Mitzvah there you can do a mitsuba so that means that you cannot make the person that's a considered the worst case scenario in the Torah you cannot make him worse he's already in the worst case scenario which means that anything you do is either going to keep him the same or perhaps get him closer he cannot get any further so first by telling somebody what the risk is what the damage is at least he knows what's going on [Music] foreign [Music] foreign