Oasis In The Ocean | Rabbi Yoel Steinmetz

[music] [bell] An incredible mushel is given by the kadesh. [music] This world is comparable to a tumultuous yam, an ocean. A person has [music] to think that he's just floating and he has to put his head high in order to reach his creator. And you have to be careful. You have to be careful to make sure that the [music] water the bitter waters of that sometimes could be difficult don't enter into one's mouth [music] and make him drown. the [music] and he has to be careful with the waves that try to sweep him away. If he's not careful, he's going [music] to be for the bad offshoots and effects that his life has. Sometimes life [music] could be difficult. Brings us to places that we never thought we would be. The yam, the ocean is tumultuous [music] and the waves are scary. What is the raft that we're able to hold on to to be able to get out of this yam in a way that we're not just surviving but we're thriving says this that we have iso is like the beautiful of during the week we're all busy we're all busy in the world all in our own way and we're worried and we have obligations tuition to pay and obligations to be able to do all the things that we need to do. But finally on Shabas Shabas is a time we could run away and leave it all behind [music] to be under the sham shadow. And this he says is a suk is when we make the special of a sukenu that the ram is putting tranquility over us. It comes from Shabas. Just like just like had to deal with a marble outside but [music] he went into the every week we give into the TVA. We're giving this arc of tranquility, [music] the ability to leave everything behind and to connect says [music] to get a new life [music] from the source of all life which is the every chabas we [music] renew our life source. We leave the hardships behind. We forsake [music] and go away from all the difficulties and the constant pressures that were under during [music] the week. Let's take hold of it now. Let's become big. Let's allow [music] ourselves to be free. And it only happens with proactive action. Not [music] discuss business and chabas to allow ourselves to be free. To allow ourselves to walk into this ta of schol [music] of tranquility. And when we do that, our whole week is going to be filled with scholos. Good job. >> [music] >> Sh.