Six Gifts and Rescue From Three Calamities for Keeping Shabbat

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 261:3

Another interpretation: "And Moses said, Eat it today." Rabbi Yehoshua says: if you merit to keep the Sabbath, the Holy One, blessed be He, will in the future give you six good measures - the Land of Israel, the world to come, the new world, the kingdom of the house of David, the priesthood, and the Levitical office; therefore it says "Eat it today." Rabbi Eliezer says: if you merit to keep the Sabbath, you will be saved from three retributions - from the day of Gog and Magog, from the birth pangs of the Messiah, and from the great day of judgment; therefore it says "Eat it today." "Six days you shall gather it." Rabbi Yehoshua says: we have learned that it does not come down on the Sabbath; from where do we know it does not come down on a festival? The verse teaches, "a Sabbath, it shall not be on it." Rabbi Elazar of Modi'in says: we have learned that it does not come down on the Sabbath; from where on a festival? The verse teaches, "it shall not be on it"; from where on the Day of Atonement? The verse teaches, "a Sabbath, it shall not be on it." "And it came to pass on the seventh day that some of the people went out" (Exodus 16:27-28) - these are the people of deficient faith among Israel.

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