SPONSORED BY STUART & STEPHANIE RONSON TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF BETTY & MAURICE BIRNBAUM & ESTA & JACK RONSON Instructor’s Guide for Torah Live’s Sabbath The Ultimate Treasure Part 1 Version 1.2 “It is rare to see talent of this order used to so high and holy a cause. Rabbi Roth’s inspirational videos are outstanding. Will unlock the doors of learning to many.” — Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks SABBATH: The Ultimate Treasure Sponsored by Stuart & Stephanie Ronson To Perpetuate the Memory of Betty & Maurice Birnbaum and Esta & Jack Ronson Instructors’ Guide for Torah Lives Sabbath: The Ultimate Treasure Part 1 Version 1.2 1 2 Thank you ......................................................................................................................4 Instructions.....................................................................................................................5 Latest Version ............................................................................................................5 Screen Resolution ......................................................................................................5 Pointer........................................................................................................................5 Lesson Plan ................................................................................................................6 Navigation..................................................................................................................6 Settings Page..............................................................................................................7 System Requirements.................................................................................................7 Contact Us..................................................................................................................7 Speaking Notes ..............................................................................................................8 Introduction................................................................................................................8 Reasons ....................................................................................................................27 Source of Blessing ...................................................................................................31 Work ........................................................................................................................36 Beis HaMikdash.......................................................................................................53 Abstaining from Work .............................................................................................65 Peace of Mind ..........................................................................................................81 Conclusion ...............................................................................................................88 3 Thank you Stuart and Stephanie Ronson — the visionaries behind this project. Your help and generosity made this dream a reality. Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits and Rabbi Reuven Leuchter for clarifying many of the ideas Rabbi Eliyahu Falk for the use of his notes Rabbi Shaul Goldman for researching various parts of the presentation Rabbi Leiby Burnham and Rabbi Dovid Tugendhaft for reviewing parts of the manuscript at various stages and offering their input Rabbi Reuven Poupko and Rabbi Dovid Solomon for help with translating Rabbi Zave Rudman for providing inspiration and content for the section on zemiros Rabbi Moshe Slonim, mashgiach of Angel’s bakery help in the behind-the-scenes “Challah” clip Rabbi Benzion Klatzko, founder of Shabbat.com, for permission to use the “Sabbath demonstration” clip Ayala, Jonny, and Elchanan Finn for acting in the Sabbath meal videos Shimon and Zahavit Lazar for hosting the Sabbath meal clips in their house, and their children Aliza, Noa, Tzvi, and Ayelet Hashachar for starring in them Yael and Bennett Kaplan for hosting some of the Sabbath preparation clips in their home Meir Roth, Tehilla Roth, and Avigail Kaplan for starring in the Sabbath preparation clip Charlie Harary and Elisheva Perlman (Ohr Naava) for permission to include the “Disconnect” movie Students of Machon Yaakov for being the first sounding board for the first draft of the presentation To my wife Becky for her ongoing support and dedication 4 Instructions Latest Version Torah Live will be updating these speaker notes with corrections and new suggestions. To make sure you have the most recent version, visit our website, www.torahlive.com and click on the treasure chest tab, where you will find a section called Presentation Materials. The version you have at the moment is 1.2. Screen Resolution For best visual effect, the presentation should run in full screen. That way the audience does not see all the ugly files sitting on your desktop! You can turn the full screen mode on at any time by pressing the Escape key on your keyboard. Subsequent presses of the Escape key will toggle between full screen mode on and off. The graphics have been created to display at 1024 x 768 pixels. Since scaling the window larger and smaller will alter this resolution, the presentation has been set to disallow resizing. Turning on the full screen feature will force the presentation to display at optimum size (1024 x 768) so that you and your audience can enjoy the presentation at its best. Pointer You can give the presentation without having to touch the keyboard or mouse-pad by using a remote control pointer to forward to the next slide. This gives you the freedom to walk around the room, interacting with students and answering questions, without having to stand right next to the computer. Many remote controls come with built-in lasers, allowing you to point a red dot at the screen to draw attention to words or pictures. We recommend the HiRO H50064 3-In-1 2.4GHz WiFi Presenter with Laser Pointer and Wireless Mouse available from Amazon here. (No, we don’t get a commission!) 5 Lesson Plan • This material was not organized into a PowerPoint presentation, where you must begin with the first slide and follow a linear path until you reach the end. It is, rather, presented as a flexible program, allowing you to pick and choose sections to teach, depending on the time available and your audience. Navigation • You can navigate around the various parts of the presentation by clicking on the menu headings on the main menu screen, which will open up sub-menus. If you want to return at any point to the previous menu or main menu, use the “bread crumbs” on the top left of the screen (circled in red below.) • To move back and forth within each section, hover the cursor around the right-hand part of the screen (cursor should change from arrow to hand) and click. To move back a frame, hover around the left side of the screen and click. You can also use the pointer to do this by going into the settings page and using the Define Pointer buttons. Remember to choose Save. 6 • Another way to move back and forth between frames is with the Left and Right arrow keys: Right arrow = next frame; Left arrow = previous frame. Settings Page You can access the settings page from the left-most icon at the top of the main menu (circled in red below). There you will be able to select how you want the heading items on the main menu to appear: with a swoosh sound or without; with the falling in effect or without. You can also choose which keys, on the pointer or keyboard, will move a slide backward and forward. (Make sure to save your selection before exiting.) System Requirements • The presentation is designed to run on either a PC or Mac (OS 10.4.x or greater). Contact Us Need technical support? Visit our FAQ page on www.torahlive.com or write to [email protected]. 7 Speaking Notes Introduction FIRST SHOW ABOVE CLIP, THEN SAY: Welcome to Torah Live’s presentation, Sabbath: The Ultimate Treasure. Over the coming hour, we are going to be learning exactly why these people and many more like them feel so strongly about the Sabbath, otherwise known as Shabbos. 8 We are going to take a journey into the reasons behind this holiest of days. We are going to attempt to understand the deep secrets and mysteries of this incredible day, so that you will experience Sabbath like you never have before. First, does anyone know the source for Sabbath being called a treasure? Who first said it? OPEN UP TO AUDIENCE 9 The Sages tell us, אמר לו הקדוש ברוך הוא למשה: מתנה טובה יש לי בבית גנזי ושבת שמה, ואני מבקש ליתנה לישראל — לך והודיעם מסכת שבת דף י: God told Moses, “I have a wonderful gift — a treasure — in my store house that I would like to give to the Jews. Go and tell them.” Sabbath 10b The gift of Sabbath. Today, my friends, more than ever we need this gift. In fact, we need it desperately…. 10 Today people are busier than ever before. Rushing… 11 Texting… 12 Organizing… Overloading our schedules… Being too busy is a persistent and pestering problem, reaching dizzying speeds, and actually damaging us… 13 People find it hard to turn off. And this is having all sorts of damaging effects on us. 14 First it makes it harder to interact and have genuine relationships with people… 15 It also destroys us physically… 16 Leads to accidents… 17 We are overstretched and overbooked and it’s just getting worse! And so, today — more than ever before — we need the Sabbath. We need it more than ever before. It is such an ancient idea, and yet it is hard