PARSHAS NOACH: SHABBOS - SECLUDING ONESELF IN THE "TEIVAH" OF TIME - Rabbi Nachum Scheiner

[snorts] >> The Zohar says Noach dor shabbos. Noach is shabbos. The Zohar What's the pshat? What's the connection? Noach to shabbos. Ah, osher menucha. Very good. We'll get to that behamsha. Very good. Very good. The Sfas Emes says Huh? >> [laughter] >> We're going to work. We're going to try to be mevarer a little bit besiyata dishmaya. The Sfas Emes in this week's parsha explains, maybe even you could say it's kipshuto, what's the connection Noach to shabbos. Just like Noach went into the teiva, there was a storm, and he went into the teiva. Says the Sfas Emes, in oilam hazeh, throughout the week, there's a gevaldige storm. There's a storm of havlei oilam hazeh. A person is very busy. A person is very torrid. A person works. A person has to work. That's last week's parsha of the cheit of the of of Adam Harishon. A person has to work. But lema'aseh, when a person works, it pulls a person away from the tachlis. And therefore, comes shabbos. A person goes into shabbos bedomeh bedomeh to the teiva. The teiva secludes him. He's in the teiva. Shabbos also, he goes into shabbos, protects him. What's the pshat in the Sfas Emes? We'll try to explain and be mevarer a a bit this connection and this understanding just like Noah went into the table the table protected him could shoot literally from the floods from the water Shabbos protects us from the weak from a person getting lost in the Yanni has a the base of Levy I say a little bit of an inside the base of Levy explains this that Noah went into the table wasn't just could shoot it was starting to rain there was a flood and the table protected him says the base of Levy the table protected Noah to be able to survive from the riches of the door the only way that Noah survived the out the riches of the door was by going into the table the boy after the whole base of Levy the >> [clears throat] >> after Noah disconnected himself by him from the whole door from all the the he goes into the table with that you showed the government in other words it wasn't just to go into the table on a practical not to get not to drown in the water Noah the English should put brought Noah into the table that he protected from the door the hot table says the base of Levy higher the oil of higher going into the table was a complete different world the ball show the table the English watched the table Noah in the table the air inside the air show mostly corners higher the bad and English by table mice of around, a Noah state to be able to be a tzaddik. That was the concept of going into the teivah that Noach was separated from the whole dor. Shabbos the concept of Shabbos >> [snorts] >> as Chazal tell us, the Eibishter says matana tovah yesh li b'veit ginzai. I have a matana in my treasure house. Reb Gedaliah Yisrael explains where do you see you buy somebody a gift? It's relevant where the gift is, where it's from. You gave the person the gift. He explains the matana tovah is that the Eibishter brings us into the beit ginzai. He brings us in into the beit ginzai. That's the matana tovah. Bidmayah to what the Eibishter brought Noach into the teivah to be disconnected from the rishus of the world, Shabbos Kodesh is a day in the week. The teivah was a location in place. Shabbos is in time that a person could go into Shabbos and be separated from inyaney oilam hazeh. More on this note the Tur brings from a Medrash. >> [snorts] >> Amayse, I don't know if we know what a Medrash is, but it's a Zohar. The Tur says that we do not say Ushmurei Tzeisenu by Maariv Shmoneh Esrei Friday night because Shabbos you don't need a shmirah. Bidmayah to going into the teivah was a shmirah for Noach. Shabbos in time is a schmira for klal Yisrael. L'maaseh, l'maaseh, we do say "O shomer Yisrael seinu." Says the Taz, because could we say for sure that we're vadai do that we keep Shabbos properly? B'ofen, b'ofen that a person has to make sure, just like Noach went into the teivah, >> [snorts] >> and the possuk says, "Va'yisgor Hashem ba'ado." The Eibishter it's not just he went into the teivah, the door was closed, was locked, there was no water that leaked in. So too our avodah Shabbos is to make sure that we stay in the beis ganazai, we stay secluded. In Derech Hashem, the Ramchal says, "Moiradik in the velt." A lot of times people think that Shabbos is a issur melacha. That's what Shabbos is about. The Torah says it's a issur melacha. What is Shabbos? Shabbos is lamah test melachos. Says the Ramchal, Shabbos is what we're saying now. Shabbos is beis ganazai, it's a time in the week that a person becomes elevated. [clears throat] It's a gift that the Eibishter gives us. Without doing anything, we're elevated. However, a person shouldn't ruin it. If you want to ex- Just like the teivah, you have to close the door, a person shouldn't ruin it by by mistake leaving the beis ganazai, says [snorts] the Derech Hashem, there has to be issur melacha. It's not the pshat of Shabbos is you're not allowed to do melacha. No, no, no. Shabbos is kedushas Shabbos. V'ulam, hinei ha'eisek >> The reality is is that a person lives in this world. That's the Matias. We live in this world. A person works. A person is Isaac in whatever he needs to to survive in this world. A person cloudy as straw really supposed to be very elevated. The Matias is a person is connected what are you going to do? Shabbos just like we said from the base of lady that the table wasn't just practical to be disconnected from the water. It was to be disconnected from the door. So too Shabbos says the ram how is a time to disconnect from what the during the week pulls a person down. Keep in shimmers Allah in your name a master of a coil. Shabbos is a time that a person is elevated. And then he goes a couple lines and he says The Matias that's what is because the whole point is not to be busy in your so therefore it is a laha. In other words, what we see over here clearly is it's not a question how to go into the base what's we have the entrances what to do to be able to go in. Where Shabbos is a time that's automatically just like Noah went into the table. The table the English to be was secluded and like the base of lady says as well Shabbos automatically is a time that it's makes helps a person be disconnected from oil. However, it's we know about it but let's take advantage. Let's take advantage if we're in the base and all the time There's a lot of different ways to take advantage on Shabbos learning davening mitzvahs but maybe one point is good I to focus on for a moment. The table says in this week's parsha very famous the said to boy table He says that boy table when you davening you should go into the table go into the word. In other words, when a person davening he should be present. He should connect go into the words attach yourself to the words to davening. Now the reality is during the week it's hard. It's hard the person is either on the way to work coming going carpools these so many terrorists. Shabbos Shabbos is a time that a person is not busy and like Rashi brings the table. But I say in parsha Rashi says when Shabbos comes is you have a key call you yeah. It's an not the but Shabbos you anyways can't work, you anyways can't hire, and you're not firing, and you're not taking care of things on Shabbos anyways. So, you might as just block it out. Yes, sometimes it could be a challenge. But the mice of a person tries, yes, see out of the schmo because that's what Shabbos is all about. So, Shabbos is a time that a person could be more present when he davens. More than the whole that that would be a way how to tap in into this of a person in the base ganache eye. I heard this vart from my Russia Shiva Reb Eleichem Swerdloff. He said over the half law that says this that it says the daver dover, which past this the the it's a din, you're not supposed to talk on Shabbos the way you talk the whole, you're not allowed to talk business. It's a law how. The half law says it's not talking about the burum shall coil. The daver dover is talking about the burum shall koidish. What you daven, your davening on Shabbos shouldn't be the same davening as during the week. Why? Cuz a person Shabbos, he's in the base ganache eye. A person Shabbos, we have it that Shabbos is a time that we're disconnected from the days of during the week. And the may a person could daven better. The eight, like mentioned before, Shabbos also the day of the no year, Shabbos no year of malasha minucha. The minucha also helps out. Besides that in your mind, the poil the poil the minucha helps out. One of the zemiros of Shabbos. Yom yina motza bo menucha. This week's parsha. The Pardes Yosef says, just like the Sambation is a siman for Shabbos, the rocks of the Sambation that fly up, don't less don't let passageway. Shabbos, the rocks, the stones don't fly up. So, it's a it's a siman l'Shabbos. So, too, he brings from the Yavits that the yona doesn't take off, it keeps Shabbos, doesn't take off on the branch of the shvi on Shabbos. He touches the psukim over there that he sent and he came back and only the first time he took, not the second. Forgot the second time cuz when it was Shabbos, he didn't take off. But, even that Shabbos, yona, the Gemara in Shabbos says is referring to Knesses Yisrael, Klal Yisrael. Boi menoyach. On Shabbos is a yom menucha. So, it's a yom menucha, a person could happen whether if it's davening or any mitzvahs, any avodas Hashem. Just to point out, to note, that this what we're saying that a person has on Shabbos, that he could daven, he could learn, avodas Hashem, the are during the week is a little bit a little bit of a and a little bit. It's said over from the Chasam Sofer of Lublin that by davening, it's the end Shabbos if a that person davens properly. But, but like this, my chaverusa told me that his father heard this from Rebbe Chanan. Rebbe Chanan said pshat in the Rambam. The Rambam says that a person is supposed to live in an environment of tsadikim, not bad people. And if he lives next to bad people, he should move. Should move to a different city, a different town. And what happens? He can't find such a town. So, the Rambam says he should go to the midbar. So, Reb Buchanon said, "What's the midbar?" The midbar's botei knesiyos about the medrashos. I told this over to my father, and he said that it said that the Satmar Rebbe, zechuscho yagen aleinu, asked the Chazon Ish, "How could you live in Eretz Yisrael? There's tziyonim over there. You should move somewhere else." So, the Chazon Ish said, "It's the Rambam botei knesiyos about the medrashos. Al kol panim, during the week we also have that teivah, that hideout, to be able to what we have Shabbos, the whole 24 hours, you go into a shul, you daven." >> [clears throat] >> The medrash says, "Mizmor shir leyom hashabbos." In In this week's parsha, on the on the perek of Shabbos, mizmor shir leyom hashabbos, "Shishulan bevei Hashem, tzum noyach." That the Eibershter was put him in the teivah to say Shabbos is a protection. We're secluded. The teivah was secluded. And shishulan bevei Hashem, in the beis medrash, we're also secluded. But just to conclude, the takeaway, just like the teivah, when Noach went into the teivah, Shabbos is our teivah. Not only when we go Shabbos morning to davening, even when a person sits by the Shabbos seudah, it's also a person's in the base in the base and a person sitting by the Shabbos sukkah, yes, eating the sukkah, a person also is tapping in to that to to the Shabbos. We should be able to this Shabbos every Shabbos to be able to connect to the to the the gives it us but we should know we have it and we should be able to utilize. Have a wonderful Shabbos.