Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #121 - No Two Shabboses are the Same

a good naira of Shabbos welcome back to turn Friday into Arab Shabbos as we are counting down to the arrival of Shabbos I want to thank our generous sponsors many supporters that is the siren and we are ready to welcome the holy the halika the amazing the great the Fantastic Shabbos we can't wait for the Shabbos we've been learning Morgans turn on Shabbos is new safer on Shabbos and he starts out somewhat counter-intuitively that Arab Shabbos is not Friday here Shabbos is not Wednesday air of Shabbos is Shabbos and even those who are strict to observant to experience and to enjoy a beautiful mote Shabbos we've been speaking a lot about it but the beautiful idea to light mozai shabba's candles from the havdala candle and it is to continue to wear our shabba's clothing to feel and draw the light of Shabbos and mozai Shabbos I've always thought that mote Shabbos is a continuation of shamas escort the queen away and out in that transition from Shabbos to mote Shabbos Richard Meyer introduces us to a different Paradigm of perspective altogether and that is the reason that we're trying to extract and draw out and be transformed from the Shabbos is to get us ready for next jobs yes it's about the Shabbos that was but was what it really was they can't change the past the past is the past so the Shabbos that we are coming out of we try to extract from draw out from capture and bottle and take that light and embed it within us to be transformed and different forever but the reason we're doing that is not only to take it from Shabbos to the weak but to prepare for the Shabbos to come is the more transformed we are the better we are the more improved we are the purer we are the more we're ready to be a vessel to receive the light of the Shabbos that is to come so essentially essentially hevra all of our life is one long process educational experience of one shop is getting us ready for the next job is making the next job is better and Shabba should always be compounding Shabba should always be improving Shabba should always be further elevating and enriching each Shabbos we learn something about ourselves and about Shabbos how to get the most out of Shabbos how to sing how to love how to laugh how to read how to rest each Shabbos we find our menu we find our Hebrew we find our routine we find our rituals we find our symbols we find our lavush and our Shabbos clothing so that the next Shabbos were better and it's a constant never-ending quest to experience Shabbos more richly each and every week and when one approaches that Shabbos can never get dry or stale there are people who are frustrated particularly young people kids we went through several years ago the whole half Shabbos phenomenon where people maybe are grow tired Chavez the same thing each and every week Shabbos 39 categories of creative labor Allah Shabbos do's and don'ts Shabbos is old it's stale Shabbos is limiting it's restrictive but that is the wrong way to view Shabbos Shabbos each Shabbos is an invitation each Shabbos is an opportunity each Shabbos is a vacation in a place of Refuge each Shabbos is exciting each of us there's something new and we learn it with the experience that we find that little Nuance that little detail that little can H and we take it with us into that shop is to come is not just a conclusion and closure on the Shabbos that was much more fundamentally what it is is the beginning of the preparation when you have that big city or pizza which I think are the Staples of a good malava malka when you're enjoying some leftover flies you're chilling from at the malava malka it's not just about reflecting on what was great about shabba's sort of nostalgically but you're reflecting on it to take with us to the next Shabbos to carry us into the weak to inform to inspire to elevate to be able to experience and get the most out says by understanding and by bringing this new paradigm this New Perspective this new understanding you know there there can be a letdown on mozai Shabbos now the truth is sadly for many people there's no letdown they're excited they're counting down can't wait to Shabbos is over get back on technology get back into other clothing get back doing other things but that's sad Shabbos is so exciting and amazing Shabbos was so true to who we are and can have the most real relationships with others with no interference No Interruption no distractions we should never want that to end who wants that to end who wants a vacation to end who wants to visit with children and grandchildren to end Shabbos is all of that we're spending time with our true and our best selves on hashama which is Sarah you don't want it to end so there should be a certain letdown a certain sense that I don't want to make Abdullah I don't want to turn that device back on I don't want to re-enter that world of to-do's and task lists I simply want to sit and sing and talk and read and rest and dive in and Learn and Grow I want to still live in this cocoon this place of Refuge it's hard there's a letdown but the way that we don't feel let down low yipo the way to not fall says ravicha Meyer is to recognize I'm not going down this is a plateau and it's a stepping stone to going up to take from this Shabbos to the next goal but without focused on the hardships and to become deter moment that I can live throughout the week with the feeling I had on Shabbos so it's not that you know Shabbos is a high then there's a big dip and a lull the whole week it's a concession I gotta live that week and then I get to go back to them I get to go back to Shabbos it's what the Shabbos teach me about myself that I can live a new me this week what in conversation with myself what in time with myself often if on a Friday night if I bring in and Chavez the Kiddush to walk to places to go sometimes I'm with people often I'm by myself and I'm never by myself during the week always a phone call to return always something to listen to always sending to prepare always some noise or engagement Shabbos you're finally in conversation with yourself you don't have to open the magazine of the newspaper you can sit on the couch and just think and just be and go for a walk and you're in conversation so we're having conversations we neglect all week long and through those conversations we learn about who we are and that new version that breakthrough that we have by spending that time ourselves then we can carry that into the week so the weeks don't blend together they're not repeat one of another every week is a new week because every week is a new us and every week is a new us because Shabbos we discovered who we are a little bit more about the real and the truest and the most authentic versions of ourselves of ourselves so we're able to tap into that Shabbos is the place we go to learn and then we take that learning about ourselves about others about those conversations about that laughter about those stories and now we take that into having a different type of week than the week that we had before this is don't feel darkness and confusion and Chaos don't feel I got to go back to a world of action and doing in tasks uses that term if you're truly a Ben Aliyah if you're a person who's always looking to climb and grow Elevate there's a letdown there's that natural letdown what the vacation's almost over the visit's almost over there's a letdown it's a letdown okay the soul is on fire the soul is loving and living Shabbos when that light when that high-speed connection slows down when that light becomes a little more hidden it's hard for it not to be painful um it's not as a letdown not as a step back but we see it as an opportunity for growth as we see Moze Shabbos is when we collect and gather and analyze and consolidate all that we've learned to be able to be a new and a better us and to go into the weak then mozai Shabbos doesn't have to be a dip it doesn't have to be a letdown it's the beginning of the next Shabbos it's not Moze Shabbos it's air of Shabbos it's a new campaign it's a new motto Saturday night's not Moze Shabbos Saturday night is Arif Shabbos totally different attitude a totally different avoda it's a different avoda with the scratches we could bring an excitement and a freshness and a newness and a brand of fire that Moze Shabbos is not mozay Shabbos mozay Shabbos is but the value of mozai Shabbos is not in being mote Shabbos the value of Moze Shabbos is the fact that it's also Arab Shabbos so everybody get ready here I come public showers coverage hours wishing everyone