Lech Lecha 5786: Avraham Was Sent to Shabbos and So Are We

We underestimate the opportunity of every shabas. Welcome to shara for every year this year of Israel and his incredible leadership on behalf of Israel and this platform. In this week's para, we're all familiar with the words, go from your land and your father's house and your birthplace to the land that I will show you. The says that the word is gamatria shabas. Now, in order to understand that, if you want to do the math, the end sometimes under certain mathematical calculations is equal to 500 because it's one of the extra letters. But that's not for now. Our eka equals shabas. And the rebba asks what's the lesson that our to the land that I will show you equals shabas. He explains and says this in multiple places that the land that I will show you is the land in which you will be able to see me. Right after that it says there inel Hashem appeared to Abraham and and Ara saw Hashem as it were. So that is the idea of the land that I will show you is the land in which I will be able to be seen. The rivid writes that the mission of a yid is to open up his eyes and see his creator who's in front of him. So how can we do that? You see the shalom says that the message of is a lesson of how one can go to the place where I can see Hashem. And what is that place where I can see Hashem? It's Shabas. Now what's the meaning of that here? The Reb says he says many other places introduces us to a fundamental concept in Mak and Kabala that there are over there are overlapping spheres called Shanovesh and literally mean world year and soul but what they mean is place time and sometimes it means people or the caliber of the work that we do as people. And so here the rabbi tells us the message was sending to and through him to every one of us is that if we want to reach the land if we want to reach the land that where we can see hashem we have to go to we have to go to that's where can be seen more in that place or in other holy places if I may add midrashim and so on but certainly to reach the highest level of clarity it's only And where is the highest level of clarity in sh in time shabas? It's through shabas that we can see. And we all know this. And what's the idea of nephesh of the caliber of our aod the caliber caliber of ourselves is to distance ourselves from our connections to the world of gashmas. go away from your arots, the elements of gashmas that are part of your life. Pik tells us that Mosher Rabenus got close to Hashem and it says that he went led and the other ones loy they couldn't come. The Reb tells us that when it says levado, that word is extra. If he was going and the other ones couldn't come, then certainly he was alone. Answer is that he was able to access and the clarity of connection to Hashem at Hari because he went levado. He went without all of the bonds to this world, all of the collections, all of the indulgences. It was only Moshino Levado, the ho. But those who had not become to the level of levado alone, away from these gashmiestic attachments, they could not access on the level of Mosher Rabenu. And so the aod for every one of us is to do what we can do to be close to be able to see the truth by getting away from the things that distance us. We have to go to the holy places. We have to access it through. We have to access it through shabas. And we have to access it through distance from activities. That's how one can get as close to as is possible. And this is hinted to in the very words go from aratsius to the land that I will show you. The basic meaning is the land of the deeper meanings are shabas and away from the gashmas. I'm reminded of what the hila safer shabas says from the shabas which is organized in a way of describing how one can access all of the potential of the shabas through how he lights the candles and how he says kdish and even how he prepares on Friday for it and his mab shabas he writes here in Who can describe how when you see a high caliber on Shabas how he looks so different than on weekdays he's as far as as east to west and beyond but it's not that way with people who are of a lower caliber borrowing the words from he says the fool doesn't understand when you see aid who's not really accessing the shabas you can't even tell with him is it is it shabas or is it Wednesday listen to this little joke he says it says in we know from the zmer that it says to rest on chabas And to celebrate on Shabas with the pleasure of eating and drinking, says the says the kind of access point of through food and drink. Every can have that how they party. You can see this difference in all of with every kind of even for people who are not on such a high level in that they are but you don't see it in other places. What we do not see on people of a lower level says says the beer is the one who pines in his heart for the service of Hashem more than on a weekday desiring the love of the light of Torah to learn then the holy Torah. But this is within the reach of every one of us. Every one of us can be like go from the simplicity from the connections that we have with every bit of focus on the material. Ultimately to the place where we can see where sees us where he shows us that we can see him because of the power of the shabas because of the power of Israel because of the power of distancing ourselves of detaching ourselves like Mosher Rabu did. It's all within our reach. Every single shabas it's well within our reach. If only we'll rise to the higher and higher level of kaduca ashabas through serving hashem with love, focus, tal tora, and dominating of the highest caliber. Let's make this the greatest chabas ever. Have a great shabas.