THE GREAT IMPORTANCE OF THIS UPCOMING SHABBOS - THE LAST OF THE YEAR - Rabbi Nachum Scheiner

Every week over here there's a habura preparing like you said the booklets preparing for Shabbos. Rabbi Korn recently started a time now video. Every Shabbos there's so much to work on to be able to connect to the matana toyva of Shabbos. I recently started doing inspirational video for Shabbos. Every Shabbos the more person prepares the more person could connect to Shabbos. But I want to focus tonight on the importance of this coming Shabbos, the last Shabbos of the year. The Sfas Emes says, I'm going to read the loshon inside. The Sfas Emes says when speaking about this Shabbos it's shvichem l'his'chazek b'chol ha'koach ha'Shabbos to be m'chazek on the every Shabbos u'm'kushkin b'Shabbos zeh she'hu Shabbos acharon shel ha'Shanah to be m'chazek this this this week, the last Shabbos of the year to be m'chazek. V'al ko panim b'Shabbos she'b'sof ha'Shanah tzerichim l'davek bo to connect to Shabbos, every Shabbos but for sure this Shabbos. B'Shabbos ha'yotzei b'sof ha'Shanah mashiah brocha b'knisa v'yetziah. Says the Sfas Emes specifically this Shabbos there's a reason to connect. A person should work on connecting to the Shabbos. The Yismach Yisrael on the same note of being m'chazek on the last Shabbos of the year he says the loshon is v'al y'dei shmirasa b'kedusha u'vtahara by being shomer the Shabbos b'kedusha u'vtahara nuchal l'saken kol ma she'bigamlu b'chol Shabbasos ha'Shanah. Meaning to say like the Sfas Emes says to be m'chazek but says the Yismach Yisrael that if a person is m'chazek this last Shabbos he could be masaken all the Shabbos of the year. So what do you think is up? Even if the other Shabbos weren't the way they were supposed to, this last Shabbos a person could be masaken. He brings that the tone of the Beis Halevi, what do you think of the tone of the Beis Halevi? It says, "Yomim yutzarvo lo yachad bahem." The Ribono Shel Olam created many days, but lo yachad, one day. What's that one day? It's a Yom HaShabbos. So what does it mean, yom echad and it's Shabbos? If it's Yom Kippur, it's yom echad bashana, but if it's Shabbos, what's yom echad? These 52 or so Shabbos in a year, what's yom echad? Says the Alexander Rebbe, "Yom echad means this Shabbos. This last Shabbos of the year, if a person if a person could keeps the Shabbos properly, then he's he's mechazek, he's masaken all the Shabbos of the year. What do you think is up? Be'ofen that this Shabbos is a time to try to put an effort to be better. Leil ui le yo, Reb Elimelech of Lyzhansk yahrzeit was today. In three different places, he gives a schmooze to the bachurim to be mechazek themselves the last Shabbos. And he says a moshol. A moshol, a person has a guest. So if you have a guest that comes for a Shabbos, you set up beautifully, you make delicious food. What happens if the guest comes to you for a year? So at the beginning when he comes, you hang up a sign, you make it beautiful. Eventually, I mean, he's here for a while, you serve him supper the way whatever your supper is, normal. But what happens at the end, lo the soif lo maiseh the the when he's leaving that last Shabbos or that last supper, that last day, you make it beautiful. These Shabbos in the whole year. But this is we're kind of saying goodbye to the Shabbos Kodesh of Tof Shin Pey Vov. Person has to put in effort to see to make it that it should be beautiful. He gives a couple of examples in what to be miskhazek. Different things he says. Eating lekavod Shabbos, it's beautiful to eat lekavod Shabbos, but it doesn't mean to eat that you you have to go to sleep afterwards and then you can't learn. But to bring out how could a person enhance Shabbos? So first the person has to know that whatever you do on Shabbos is way more than during the week. It's known the Ben Ish Hai brings some of Kabbalah that if a person learns on Shabbos, it's worth a thousand times more. This is every Shabbos, but the Shabbos a person should think any Shabbos for Kodesh Kodeshim Shabbos that he can make up all the Shabbos that he was didn't learn properly. This Shabbos if he puts in the effort to learn, learning on Shabbos is a thousand times more. Reb Elo Pyon brings from Svarim. He says he doesn't remember where he saw it. I saw in Reb Elo Pyon, but he says that just like Shabbos Kodesh school of Shabbos keneged kol hamitzvos, which literally means if a person keeps Shabbos, it's equivalent to keeping kol haTorah kulah cuz it's shakul. It's like you mekayem the kol haTorah kulah. So too, any mitzvah that you do on Shabbos is shakul keneged kol hamitzvos. Not just the mitzvah of of of Shabbos Kodesh. A person Friday night after the meal, it's normal to be tired. But if a person benches properly, the mitzvah is shakul keneged kol hamitzvos. And a person can be misaken what he what he wasn't so good throughout the year. This last Shabbos, like we saw before, could be messacking all the Shabboson. The Gemara in Zvachim clears the shailah. The Gemara clears this one concept of toder kodem. If you have something that's toder and something that's not toder, toder is kodem. What's more frequent comes first. Then there's a halacha called kodshei chaveira. It's something that's more kodish. Korbonos comes before something that's less mekudash. So, the Gemara wants to know what happens if you have both. You have a toder and on the other end you have something that's mekudash. What comes first? The toder, what's daily, or what's mekudash even though it's not daily? The Gemara clears the shailah. Zagt the Gemara, "Tashma aveira. Shabbos, yeah, Shabbos, you have the korban tamid and the korban mussaf. What comes first? The korban tamid. Even though the mussaf is a mussaf that's more mekudash because of Shabbos, and the tamid is the daily, is the toder. So, you see, toder comes before mekudash." Says the Gemara, "Otu, you say for the whole everything on Shabbos, otu, did Are you going to tell me that the the Shabbos kedusha, Shabbos helps only for the mussaf and not for the tamid? It helps for the tamid also. Which means even a benching that you'll do every single day, a benching of Shabbos is a mekudash digger benching. A davening, it's it's a davening of Shabbos. But, whatever a person does on Shabbos has the kedushas a Shabbos." On this note of kedushas a which again is the gift of every Shabbos, but if we're seeing how to be maschic really for every Shabbos, but at least the last Shabbos in the concept of mikdash the Beis Hamikdash we will mikdash the Beis Hamikdash and the Kedusha helps that if a person at least once the Beis Hamikdash can be even now kishalashaita if a person is going to go to the Har Habayis in certain places he's chaimisa. A person that was mikdash the Har Habayis it's mikdash. Kol sh'Kein Shabbos that the Eibishter is mikdash the Eibishter is the one to make Kedusha Shabbos halacha is kama of a kama a person has to be noig the Kedusha to be elevated. So we see over here that this Shabbos has importance to see like every Shabbos, but to see the put a koach in this Shabbos to make up for all the Shabbos that maybe weren't perfect. But there is something more also besides this Shabbos telling us to look back on the previous Shabbos and it's also saying on lahaba that what? The Pritzadik of Sadik HaKohen says the Shabbos Kodesh Hashana which is already tochel shana kileisa last week we read the tochecha Parshas Ki Savo and the Gemara says the reason why we read the tochecha at the end of the year tichle shana v'kileisa question is there's a week in between, but tichle shana v'kileisa and then could start the brochos says the Pritzadik the brochos start already with this Shabbos. And this Shabbos after mitzvah my yoim, it's already Shabbos. It's already been warming since this week. The brochas of Rosh Hashanah start already now Shabbos. So, besides with what we said that the Shabbos is supposed to be mashpia to make up on the past, it's also mashpia on the coming, but with more explanation, the Be'er Mayim Chaim says the following. Shabbos Hagadol before Pesach. Why is it called Shabbos Hagadol? So, there's many reasons. The simple reason is the prei haness, the ness that happened klal Yisrael took a set and the the Mitzrim, the Etzem should have gone crazy and hurt the Yidden. They didn't do anything. Prei haness. The question is, it's true maybe it happened Shabbos, but the din was mechuyav ossur to take the Yid Nissan. So, why is it that it's Shabbos Hagadol? Says the Be'er Mayim Chaim, a piyut mevuar in the Zohar, that what happens during the week is all a hashpa'ah from what happened from Shabbos. The kedushas haShabbos is mashpia for whatever happens during the week. Says the Be'er Mayim Chaim, that the whole, can you imagine, the whole yetzias Mitzrayim only came about because of the koach of Shabbos before yetzias Mitzrayim. Only because of the koach of yetzias Mitzrayim of the Shabbos before. So, it's Shabbos Hagadol. Boy, was it a big Shabbos. It was a Shabbos to be mashpia yetzias Mitzrayim. The me'orer this, says the Be'er Mayim Chaim, the Shabbos before Rosh Hashanah is the Shabbos that's me'orer rachamim, that we should be Yate say Zaka Badin. So, besides what we said before, that the Shabbos is a Shabbos to make up all the previous Shabbos in we see now also that the Shabbos is something of importance besides the Shabbos Kodesh Atzmoi. It's also important to make sure because this Shabbos above all in the Shabbos Parshas Tetzaveh Vayakhel is going to determine our Rosh Hashanah. One more pointer on this note, which we said that these the Shabbos, this last Shabbos that's Masakan the previous Shabbos, and also this Shabbos that's Mashpia on the upcoming Rosh Hashanah. And just one more pointer before this final pointer, Reb Yonasan Eibeschutz, whose Yahrzeit is tonight, says, "What's the reason why we start Slichos Motzei Shabbos?" We say, "Sefardim start Rosh Chodesh Elul. We start but at some four days before Rosh Hashanah." In the sense of technically, we really could have started, let's say a week like this week, we could have started Monday. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. >> [clears throat] >> Why do we have to start from Shabbos, Motzei Shabbos? So, he says, "Because we want to start Slichos B'Simcha. You're supposed to do Teshuvah B'Simcha. And where do you have the Simcha?" He says, "You have the Simcha of a person that's Mekayem Shabbos properly. He learns Shabbos. He has Oneg Shabbos. With that, you go into Slichos." His loshon is ki ha'am samechim machmas mitzvos ha'Torah she'layhem de'Shabbos. They're happy with Torah that they learn. also makes a person happy. Therefore, we start Motzei Shabbos. that this Shabbos is an important Shabbos for back and for Rosh Hashanah and to get a good start with Slichos. That's the importance of this last Shabbos Kodesh. But to conclude with what brings both together, both in one side the Shabbos that improve the Shabbos that passed and side also to improve to have a good Rosh Hashanah, to have a good start with Slichos. The Orech L'Ner in his sefer Torah Minchas Ani wonders the following. Why is it that sometimes Rosh Hashanah sh'chali's b'Shabbos is an amazing It turns out to be an amazing year. And he gives some examples. The year that Klal Yisrael was choyteh of the ego, then was the machil, that's the 40 days we have now, that Rosh Hashanah was chali's b'Shabbos. The chomas Hamishkan was in a year Rosh Hashanah sh'chali's b'Shabbos. Klal Yisrael went into Eretz Yisrael on a Rosh Hashanah sh'chali's b'Shabbos. They were great years of Rosh Hashanah sh'chali's b'Shabbos. May idach they were terrible years on on Rosh Hashanah sh'chali's b'Shabbos where we couldn't blow the shofar. Among those years, both Churban Bayis Hamikdash happened on a year the Tisha B'Av was a year that that year was Rosh Hashanah sh'chali's b'Shabbos. So how do you determine is it because of the no shofar sometimes you see it's a great year and sometimes it's not a good year. Tosefta actually on the Gemara of Mary and Tosefta says that it's only if you don't blow shofar because of the oness, then it was not going to be a good year. But if Rosh Hashanah shali is for shabbos, then it's not a oness. We have shabbos. Explains the oral linear with a martial. How do you understand sometimes you do have sometimes you do have a good year we have a good year sometimes unfortunately not. So he says with a martial. There was once a servant of a king that was hated and sent to the king. The king was furious and he told the judges to deal with it. Figure it out. Well, you know, take care of it. He tried getting a defender, a lawyer and nobody dared to defend the case. Because if you're sticking up for the case, means you don't care about the king. And he couldn't he couldn't get anybody to help him out. His wife says, "Listen, you're a servant here at the king. The king knows me. I'll come I'll represent you." They had the case. He she came. She represented. And Al Amissa, he was let off the hook. Taka, she pulled it off. Not too long after, there was another servant that did the exact same thing. He tried getting lawyers to defend him, somebody to help him. Of course nobody was interested. But he said, "Wait a second. The same story happened. The guy's wife helped him. Let me bring my wife on board also." This guy didn't have major shalom bayis with his wife. But Al Amissa, he was married. His wife figured, "Listen, my husband's going to get killed. She'll represent them. He pulls up, she pulls pulls up. And the judge asks the guy's wife, "What are those bruises on your face?" And she didn't have She couldn't know what She didn't have what to answer. The people said it's because he used to beat her. So, the judge says, "Listen here. The previous case, the guy's wife came to represent them. I hear you can't use your wife to represent you. You beat her. You can't She can't represent you." Says the Aral Haner, "The nimshal is Rosh Hashanah. Who's our defendant? The shofar. Rosh Hashanah shachalis b'Shabbos, we don't have that. So, we may look who's going to watch us? Who's going to come save us? Like the Medrash says that Shabbos is the ben zuga of Klal Yisrael. However, it's only if Klal Yisrael keeps Shabbos, if Klal Yisrael keeps Shabbos, then Shabbos can come and protect Klal Yisrael. Says the Aral Haner, "The years that it was gevaldige years Klal Yisrael went into Eretz Yisrael, those were years that even though there was no shofar, b'l'maiseh, we were able to rely on the shmira on Shabbos cuz we kept Shabbos. The years that unfortunately it wasn't is cuz we didn't have the shmira of Shabbos." B'oifen, we began speaking about this last Shabbos that it's m'sake in the previous shabbos, and we said that it's mashpia on Rosh Hashanah. It helps us, it gives us a good start with slichos. But here we see that we need this Shabbos Kodesh for this week to be a good week because next week Shabbos, the first Shabbos of the year, when it's the Yom Hadin, we need to come with ammunition. We need to come with with a representative of Shabbos. So, we should take zocheh to utilize [clears throat] particularly this Shabbos Kodesh, whether it's learning, mitzvahs, better kiddish, davening, and with that will be to see the Torah. >> Amen. >> Very nice.