Are You Shomer Shabbos? | Rabbi Binyomin Weinrib

[music] [bell] If you would stop the average fum Jew and ask them are you shame or shabas they would probably be insulted by the question am I shame or shabas of course I'm shamer shabas I keep all of shabas from the beginning to the end I don't do any of the lament kdish on Friday night I go ahead and I go to all of the dings on shabas am [music] I shamer shabas the person would be insulted but the sadikim tell us that there's another way to explain [music] another way to understand the words of what it means to be shamer shabas the pik says that after Yadic told the dreams [music] to Yakavin the says Rashi says what does it mean that [music] Yakavin was sham he guarded the matter he guarded the dreams he was [music] waiting to see when are the dreams going to come true the sadikim explained to us that to be a shamer Shabas it's not enough to just go ahead and keep Shabas [music] from the beginning to the end of Shabas a person needs to be shamer Shabas waiting and yearning all six days of the week waiting and being excited for the kaduca [music] of Shabas that's what it truly means to be a shamer Shabas somebody who's Sappa waiting the whole [music] week when is Shabas going to come. From the moment the Shabas ends, a person is already getting excited that there's only [music] six days left of Shabas, five days left of Shabas and a person begins the countdown to the next Shabas [music] when he would fold up his talis on Shabas. As he folded up his talis which is brought on that a person should do Shabas, he would say the words [music] already beginning to prepare his talis for the next week for the next Shabas getting excited for the Shabas [music] that is going to come. A person needs to recognize that every day of the week contains within it an aspect of Shabas. The Arizel [music] says that Sunday, Monday and Tuesday is the end of the previous Shabas and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday is the preparation for the Shabas that's [music] coming the shabas. Every day a person's a person is waiting and yearning and excited for Shabas. If a person finds themselves in a supermarket on a Monday or a Tuesday and sees something exciting, perhaps be able to bring home for their children for the Shabas party, sees a good piece of meat, a good bottle of wine, a person should go ahead and purchase that [music] and leave it in a visible place and show it to your children. Show it to your spouse and say, "This is [music] Shabasesh. This is something that I have sitting on my counter Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. This is something that I'm going ahead and getting [music] excited for Shabas and yearning for Shabas." When a person is truly shame of Shabas, truly yearning [music] and waiting for Shabas the whole week and thinking about Chabas by going ahead and learning the para the whole week and buying [music] things for Shabas, setting the table early and a person is yearning for the kaduca of Shabas, then when Shabas comes, a person's able to say, not only am I going to be able to be Shamemer Shabas from [music] the beginning till the end, but I'll be able to be Shemer Shabas all six days of the week as well. >> [music] [singing]