A Rabbi was once speaking in a Yeshivah class about the importance of observing Shabbat. He related how a student was once accused of desecrating the Sabbath. The rumor was brought before the famous Chafetz Chaim, who immediately called the student to come to his home. After a short while the young man left Chafetz Chaim's house a changed person. Even his appearance had changed. From that Sabbath on he observed Sabbath meticulously. "What did the Chafetz Chaim tell him that so dramatically changed his life", the Rabbi was asked. "I do not know", he responded. Years later, an older gentlemen approached the Rabbi who was teaching the class and said, "I was that wild young man you spoke of to your students."

So please tell me, "What did the Chafetz Chaim tell you?" the Rabbi asked. "He took my hands in his hands and began to cry. As he was crying, he kept repeating the words 'Sabbath is holy, holy Sabbath.' His tears flowed down his face and onto my hands and burnt them. I immediately regretted my actions and decided I would always from that moment on observe the Sabbath." Now I ask all of us, how concerned are "we" about not only ourselves observing YHVH'S holy day, but the ones around us? Is Sabbath a 'if I have time for it' day? The first thing we need to work on when YHVH calls us out to this remnant walk of returning to the Torah, is on keeping Shabbat. The festivals take time to learn about, the 613 commandments take time, but Shabbat is here and now and not much instruction is needed here. Would our tears over someone not keeping Shabbat (especially ourselves) leave a "burning impression?"