Torah Observance - Sabbath/Shabbat

• • What is Sabbath?

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• • Is Shabbat and Sabbath the same?

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• • Is Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday?

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• • Why celebrate Sabbath?

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• • How do we celebrate Sabbath?

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• • What is the “correct” observance of Sabbath?

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• • Ge 2:3 - God gives Sabbath
  • Mk 2:27 - Sabbath created for Man
  • Ex 16:22-26 - Observed in Sinai
  • Ex 20:8 - One of the ten commandments
  • He 4:1-13 - Sabbath Rest for the People

Torah Observance - Dietary “Kosher”

• Lev 11 - Clean and Unclean food
• “Kadosh” Holy - Separation of things set aside for God and things set aside for other purposes
• “Kashrut” - Dietry Law
• “Kasher” - Fit - Which foods are considered fit to eat
• “If I eat Kosher, then I am under the law”
• Preparing foods
  • Certified by Rabbi saying it is clean
• What is the real story behind Peter’s Vision?
  • Ac 10 10:9-29; 11:4-18

What Is Clean and Un-Clean Food?

• Foods and their accompanying rituals do not make a person clean or un-clean
• Our thoughts and intents make us clean or un-clean

Animal / Products

• Pigs, shellfish, rabbits, birds of prey, and reptiles cannot be eaten
• Mammals that have split hooves and chew their cud, (including cows, sheep, goats, bison, and deer) are kosher
• Fish must have fins and removable scales to be considered kosher
• Milk and eggs from kosher animals are kosher. Eggs must not have blood
• Food prepared in accordance with Jewish law - “shechita”

Meat and Dairy

• Meat cannot be eaten with dairy - Ex 23:19, 34:26; De 14:21
• Kabbalah
  • Meat represents - “Gevurah” - The Divine attribute of Judgment
  • Diary represents - “Chesed” - The Divine attribute of Kindness
• “None of these reasons are fully satisfactory and it is clear that this mitzvah falls into the category of Mitzvahs that have no satisfactory reason - Chukim. The reasons of many of the commandments in the Torah are beyond our comprehension. This allows for our acceptance of a Higher reason and the realization that our comprehension is limited.”

“Pareve” Foods

• Pareve means natural containing neither meat or diary
• All eggs, fruits, vegetables, grains, pasta, nuts, beans, and legumes, fish is pareve
• Grape products (including juice and wine) must be produced by Jews
• Ma 15:1-20 - Traditions of Man