<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Shabbos commemorates the creation of the universe — “ki sheishes yomim osso...al kein beirach. </font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">In Va’eschanan, Devorim 5:15, Shabbos is also associated with yetzias Mitzrayim— “vezocharto ki eved hoyiso...al kein tzivcho. </font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br>Reb Meir Simcha In Parshas Va’eschanan asks: Shabbos, which is a zeicher of briyas ha’olam, should be universal, and observed </font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">by all mankind. Why, then, is the opposite true; not only is Shemiras Shabbos not obligatory for non-jews, but it is prohibited for a non-jew </font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">to mark the Shabbos through shemirah– akum sheshovas chayav missa? (Sanhedrin 58b)</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">I have seen seven good responses which I'm sure many of you already know. </font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The following is my own response.</font></span><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style=""><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">In the Megillas Esther 8:17 it says: "...Moreover, many from among the people of the land professed themselves Jews, for the fear of the Jews </font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">had fallen upon them." The term in the verse "Misyahadim" (Judaized) is used as opposed to "misgayarim" (converted). In a sense, by their </font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">masquerading as Jews, they were ridiculing us (even though the m'forshim give another reason). Hence, by a non-Jew keeping Shabbos, it </font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">could be seen as mocking us. Therefore, they are chayav missa. If they sincerely believe and want to observe Shabbos, then they can convert.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Mangal"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><b>ri </b></span></font></div></div></body></html>