Rav Kook on Pirkei Avot: Enriching every Shabbos | Rabbi Aaron Goldsheider | Sep 16 2026

For some reason, they ran out of sore sheets. I not based not based on the numbers. I don't think these a regular crowd. All right, we'll we'll do our best. Okay, here we go. Uh, good morning everyone. Booker to Booker to great to see everyone this morning. Yashiko for being here this morning. And uh, we are learning at a very very special time in the Jewish calendar. We're within the Asserva, the 10 days of repentance. We're making our way to Shabashuva, the Shabas, and then we have uh 24 hours after Shabas until we bring in Yum Kipper. So, it's a special time to be learning. >> What's that? >> That's right. A lot of joy. It should be with a lot of joy. And um so, the topic today is going to relate to Shabashuva. Now the the theme of this year, the theme of our learning over the year is going to be teachings from Pier Aot from Pier Aos with the explanation of RVuk and and the students of RV cook. So I want to begin with the following Mishna and really just three words from the Mishna and with that that'll launch us into our learning this morning and uh hopefully something special for all of us as we're moving into Shabas Shuva Shabbat Shuva. So this is a Mishna perk alif Mishna Yudgiml and the Huh Haya Omare is Hillel. This is Hillel who is speaking and whenever we have teachings from Hillel so they are always special and um to appreciate what Hill has to say and we're just going to look at three words. It's a three-word teaching from Hill and Hill says we're going to skip the the first teaching go to the second teaching the source it seems that they that they uh they don't have anymore. I apologize. Hill says Mos Y. The words of Hil three words do Mosif if one does not add if one does not continuously add YAF will come to an end. Yas now what does that mean? If one that's that's the I'm just reading and translating Hill's words missionary pavote. If one does not add or de lode mo most yas like the word sof you come to a close you come to an end so the commentaries say the following most of the commentaries say that it's referring to tal tora that it's referring to learning of Torah that if you don't continue to learn Torah if you don't continuously grow in your learning if you go if you don't come to a shir on a weekly basis so um so your learning is just going to stop like it's just it's just going to end right there and we don't any we don't want our learning to end there. Uh others talk about and this you find in the commentary of the of he says it's not only in learning but it's in all mitzvot in all of our aodas hashem that we want to continuously add. We want to contin continuously grow in our service to hashem. We're always looking to add more. We're always looking to grow closer to Hashem. And um what I'd like to focus on today is Shabas and in particular because we have Shabashuva just days away to think about Shabas and how we can enrich our Shabas how we can add to our Shabas and based on the teachings of Rifkuk and we'll see the students of Rifkook as well. So I want to begin with a story a story that's found in the Gumarra. It's a story that's found in Gumar Shablim B and it's a um it's a well-known incident which you probably remember in some way from Lagba Omar and it talks it talks about and his son who enter a cave they enter a cave because of Roman persecution they are there in the cave and the garra says the following as they're about to um come out of the cave says the garamarra and I'll read the gamarra to you and a a very fascinating story and a story that's going to bring us into the uh the topic of Shabas. And this is the middle of page one if you want to follow along. And his son, they come out of the cave. They see people that are plowing and they are planting. This is the first thing that they see as they come out of the cave and they say the following. They're putting aside and they're involved in something that is just of this world. In other words, why are people wasting their time? Why are they engaged in things that are not holier? Why are they just working the fields? They should be studying Torah. They should be doing things in the service of God. And what did they do? Not if you may remember this wherever they placed their eyes and his son Allazar. Wherever they looked, they they they they looked at the people doing this. And what happened? They would they would vaporize. Somebody say vaporize. They would they would burn up the uh they burn up those people. That's the the again the language of the Garraas. So a voice comes out from heaven and said to them to destroy my world. That's why you're leaving the cave. God says the Basel says I want you now to return to the cave again. That's not not proper behavior. That's not what I what I expected of you. You've been studying Torah all those years in seclusion. You've reached heights of learning. But to act that way and to look at people in that way inappropriate. They went back into the cave and they spent another 12 months. And they said 12 months does one sit in ganam. So, it's time for us after we've been punished now to leave the cave. A voice came from heaven said, "It's time for you now to leave the to leave the cave." They left the cave. So, every place that Revelazer would strike or he would burn. Now, that is the son of Shimarai. What did he do when he came out of the cave? He continued to do the same thing that he looked at the people that were working engaged in this world and he burnt them up but his father he would heal them. And his father now said to his son my son it's sufficient for this world that the two of us are studying Torah. Let's have a little rahmanas on everybody else and uh let's be more understanding of everyone else's engagement in this world. Okay, that is the gamarra and the garra now continues. There's a lot to say on this garra, but we're going to focus on really this part of the gamarra. This is the top of page two. Three more lines of the gamarra. It was right before shabas the males shapa right before shabas was entering. The sun was setting sabah. They saw a elderly manak madan assa. He was holding two myrtle branches in his hand. Vahit and he was running ben hashmashos. And he was running right before shabas. Now it was right before shabas. What do they see? A man is holding myrtles in his hands and uh he is running. Amar amule. They say to him, "What are these for? Why are you holding these myrtles?" He said, "H Shabas, they are there. I have them because they're going to honor Shabas." How are they going to honor Shabas? It could be their like the flowers that we have today that many people have the custom buying flowers. You see that in Shalime in Eric Israel, people on all the street corners, people buying flowers for Shabas. He had these flowers. He had myrtles in his hand. He said, "I'm running with them to honor the shabas." And by the way, there are those that are mak to have myrtles and to smell myrtles before shabas. Has anybody seen that? That custom you see it at the cotel. People sometimes at their table as well will have myrtles which is based on based on this gamar. >> Correct. The spardom do it. That's correct. The spardom do it. Um and now they turn to this fellow. They say vitis. A strange kind of a strange thing that they say. Would it not be sufficient just to have one? Why do you have the two myrtles? So he answered zakur. One of them is based on the description of shabasak shamur and the other is representative of shamur at yama. So that's why I have the two in my hand. So liber please look alsot for the Jewish people. And at that point they their minds were settled. They they no longer were upset. That is the that's the gamarra. That's that's this passage in the gamarra. There's a lot to say about this gamarra. Let me share just a few insights and to bring us into the uh the topic of shabas from RVuk. Ravk one comment that he makes on this gimmar is what does this mean the shamur visakur aspect of the gimarra that they say isn't it sufficient just to have one? Why do you have two? And his answer is one is zakur and one is shamur. What does shamur mean? Shamur means to observe the shabas to guard the shabas. What does zahur mean? So one interpretation of zahur highlighted by ruk is zahur is remembering the shabas during the week as well to prepare for the shabas shamur is observing the shabas guarding the shabas but what's zakur zakur is the entire week right one shabas ends to already have in mind well who am I inviting you know next shabas right starting the cooking before shabas making the uh making a list of uh of items that need to be purchased for Shabas. The shyom that we say every single day for Shabas, that's part of Zahur. So what do they see in this individual? Again, they're they're judging harshly. Both of them as they come out of the cave, they judge harshly others that they see that don't have the commitment, the devotion to Torah and to mitzvot. But they see yes, there is a commitment to the shabas, the love that they have for Shabas. So they're already a Jew is already thinking about Shabas before Shabas. Interesting. The myrtle. What does the myrtle represent? Says Rif cook the myrtle. What do we know about the myrtle? Famously that the myrtle has the >> very good that it has the scent but it does not have taste. And what does that mean for cook? That means that you need to see deeper into the individual into the Jew. Right? It may not appear on the outside that they're necessarily religious. You don't necessarily see the commitment but inside the smell if you can just if you can just smell it right you have to take another moment just to pick up on the fragrance and the beautiful fragrance of every Jew that every Jew has that love every Jew has that longing for Shabas and one other item last item that I'll highlight from cook is what is this man it says that they see a saba a saba what's a saba >> a grandfather here means an old man of a nugget And he was running. Now Rafuk says the following. What's the running? Well, running. Do we run right before Shabas? Often we do. We're running right last minute. Getting we're rushing. That's right. Getting everything ready before Shabas. But if Cook highlights another aspect, he says, usually older people, and I can attest to this, that they don't do a lot of running. Right. At some point, like the little kids, you see them like running up the stairs, right? to tell my kids, you know, don't run down the stairs. But once we get to a certain age, and I've reached that age, right, we're not really we're not running so much any longer. Rafuk says the fact that this person was running, this elderly man was running running before Shabas, what does that represent? >> It represents >> beautiful that the love that he had. He wouldn't normally there's older man older people don't usually run but the love that he had for the mitzvah the anticipation the excitement that he had for shabas surfuk says this is what and his son where they discover where they first judged in a harsh way they recognize they realize the great love the great yearning that the Jewish people have and even the simple Jew right even the simple Jew the love that they have for Shabas so this is uh this is what I what I'd like to what I'd like to share this morning and to think about and to talk about together the love of Shabas, our preparation for Shabas. This is really the Gamarra is talking about preparation for Shabas, running before Shabas, the excitement that one has before Shabas, the beauty that one wants to bring to Shabas with the with the myrtles that this person's bring for Shabas. How do we do that? How do we bring a greater beauty to Shabas? And here I want to bring you to RV cook's one of his most important writings and which is so appropriate for these days is his orotuva his classic work on chuva what a beautiful work that is every year I come back to it they say that Rkook would come back to that safer and he would study it every year he wrote it in the early 1900s and uh it was published during his lifetime and during these as Harrisa he would read that safer as a way to inspire himself it was his own words. Now, the safer is very poetic. There are parts that are a bit complex, some that are mystical. I would say there there isn't a lot in the safer in the book of Roach Chuva that's practical. In other words, saying here's like a here's a good idea. Here's a a strategy in Chuva. That's not really what Rifkook does. But here I I want to share with you a passage a place in Aroach Chuva where he speaks practically something that we can do to do in our efforts in our uh in our path pathway to Chuva. So here we go. This is the middle of page two. We're reading now from a road to Chuva. It is chapter 33. It's the 14th piece Shabbat on the eve of Shabas. And now he's talking about every erra of Shabas. The way that how does a Jew bring in Shabas says Shabaseshima every Shabas a shabas enters a Jew should be engaged in doing chuva on anything that transpired during the week anything that a person did wrong transgress something that they want to correct to think about that and Enter Shabas with those thoughts. I'll take your your uh question a moment or a comment. To enter Shabas in a pristine way, in a pure way, to be able to bring in Shabas, the purity of Shabas, the beauty of Shabas, to put aside sin, to think about any transgression, anything that may have gone wrong during the week, and to enter Shabas in a in in a purified manner. Yes. Do you want to comment? >> In order to do that, yeah, you can't enter. >> Nice. Very nice. Very nice. In order to do that, I think it's an excellent point. In order to do that, you can't enter Shabas. And that's that's I'm going I I want to highlight that point and we often do that and sort of like the I don't know the picture that I have in my mind espec I don't know growing up in America and New York like people just running running from the train often people not even changing their suits as they're you know getting off the train and from work and not having the time to enter chabas appropriately. So yes, if it's with so you're not going there isn't going to be the the uh the headsp space for for chuva for thinking about how one brings in chabas. So here I want to bring a couple of examples of exactly that you're just on the right track. Um how do we bring in chabas in a in a beautiful way? How do we do that? So so here I want to share with you this is interesting something that I came across. This is from Ravar Levvin. There's a beautiful book called Deravot which is based on the teachings of Ravar Leavin the saddic of Shalim the very close friend of Rav Cook and um he he had the following custom and I think something that we can think about for ourselves in our in our own way and I'll just read it to you. This is the middle page two uh towards the bottom where it says number three had a very particular he was he was careful about the following when he would when it he would come to his um >> mailbox we don't really have mailboxes today we do in his mailbox shalom on Friday and before Shabas when he would receive it after midday he would refrain from opening mail on Friday afternoon that he shouldn't go into Shabas right reading a bill right before Shabas right not a great not a great idea today and I and I just had there was I had to deal with that issue like and I said I'm not going to read you know, continue reading the emails in the afternoon. Let me put that aside. Let Good idea. Let me put that aside. I was in the midst of uh like trying to work something like let me put that aside. It's a few hours before Shabas. But if you enter Shabas reading that email or hear Levvin reading the mail a few minutes before Shabas, what's that going to how is that going to affect your Friday night your Shabas? >> Yeah, please. Unless there's an email that says, "Sorry, it's so late, but there's >> Okay. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. No. So, there's a meal." >> Absolutely. No, there's a time period. But if you know you've been back and forth with somebody and it's a a tense issue, whatever it may be, maybe by Friday morning, it's time to put that aside and to prepare for Shabas and to bring in Shabas in a uh in a way that's that's more wholesome. So he didn't want to bring into Shabas that heaviness of of those kind of letters says although that's of course that's uh you're allowed to do this according to you are allowed to think other words thinking about things that relate to the weekday is not an isabis because he was very sensitive shall rebu This is something that he refrained from doing in order to be bring the honor to Shabas and to the Moadim. So this is something maybe in a practical way as well to think about as we're entering Shabas what we do as we're getting closer the hours before Shabas maybe not to again maybe not to read certain letters mail etc that would bring a certain heaviness into Shabas and by the way I'll just highlight the following which is this idea I think is is rooted very much in the Torah itself and a rashi that is found in the uh on the aseras. So in the deo it says the following six days you are to work to do all of your work. What's Rashi's what's going to be Rash's question? Rashi is always uh concerned with the what word is not necessary in this good. You could just say simply and then what's to do all of your work seems like an unnecessary word. This is Rash's interpretation of what it means. What does it mean? Look at Rashi. When Shabas comes, it should be in your eyes. You should feel he gives a psychological interpretation. What's You should feel that it's all done. You need to put aside everything. Don't bring in any of that tension or anxiety of the week into Shabas. That's what Rashi says. It should feel as if it's all you've done all of your work. You haven't left the emails to answer and the bills to everything has been has been finished in your mind. Shalom. You should not be thinking about any of your work on Shabas. And that's the way that he interprets melah. Very interesting. Turning now to the yes that everything is done. Absolutely right. Let's turn now to the top of the next page which is page three. And here I came across this just a week ago. There's a beautiful say for Rski of Abraham Dr. Abraham Torski on prayer. Does anybody hear it's aided minog to have farfl on Friday night? >> Farfully anybody know what farfl is or we remember the good old days of farfl? So he writes the following. It's a minute to have farfl. Now >> we just came off of Russashana where we have sim. We're all familiar with that by the way. I think would you agree with this? When I grew up there was apple and honey. That was it. That was our we were we were done. That was >> But now we got right now we have all now we have the long what >> when did it start? >> When did it start? I don't know. It's more I don't I don't know the gum. Oh, so the gumar itself says sim the gumar itself talks about the simanim is a good thing on rash sham. So there's a sim for every Friday night as well in the kasidic tradition. Look at it writes there's a tradition many families to serve farful on Friday night. This is this custom is attributed to the balmtov. The baltov came up with this idea to eat farfl. Why? The word farfl which my mother served symbolized that whatever happened until tonight is farfalin. You know the word farfallen. It's it's done. It's lost. Right? Whatever that tension was, whatever that squabble was with that person, it we're done. We're starting fresh now. Shabas >> something negative. I know but this is in the no for fallen in a in a positive let it just let it fall let it just fall away whatever it was it was we're going to start fresh after shabas that's why we eat farful on Friday night according to the according to the balshamto the delicious dish emphasized that chabas is to bring closure to the past and enable us to approach the future unencumbered by the burdens of the past fallen let it just fall away Enough. Enough. Enough. We're not going to fight any longer. We're not going to Let's Let's start again. Let's start fresh. Okay. So, that is uh if you want to if you want to pick up that minhug to start having farfl again on on Friday night in your home, you can do that. But I never heard of a sim of Friday night. There's one of the sim for a fallen. That's like, you know, the gazer like all of these words that have have meaning. So, the farful has is a sim as well. Okay. Very beautiful. There's a uh there's also talking about a kidic tradition which is very beautiful. This is uh Makarbach shares this on one of his one of the albums or one of the tapes if you remember what an album and what a tape is. Um so he talks about melikens and what was his custom on uh on Friday night or right before Shabas. So he had it was a big with hundreds not thousands of them. He had a kitchen staff that would you know prepare the food for over Shabas for the hundreds that would be with him for Shabas. So on Friday afternoon the rebi revel he would enter the kitchen and he would go over to each person in the kitchen and he would ask forgiveness of each one if in any way they worked too hard over the week or if anybody raised their voice to them. And then Schlomakarbach says he would come out of the kitchen and then he would bring his family together. He would bring his wife and his children and he would turn to each one and every era of Shabas he would ask forgiveness. There was a time like Rav Cook says is a time of chuva right before Shabas he would ask forgiveness of his wife and of his children if he did anything wrong if he offended anyone over over the week and that was his practice every single heir of Shabas asking forgiveness from his family members. So this is yeah very beautiful idea of how of how we bring how we bring in Shabas. So here's another example and here I'm going to make another suggestion maybe it's something that that people uh that people do and uh and I'll just share it with you in the text itself. So one of the great rabbis one of the great sadikim of your um going back about 40 50 years was Ravak Mosheap Ryak Mosh Harlap his shul I also often mention is right here just a few blocks away. What? >> You're right next Oh, wow. You're you're in a good place. So, the base madish is still there. His chair is still there and it's called B Zabul. And if you go up the stairs, you can walk into the base materazar after the passing of Ravk. He has volumes called Mearum about 20 volumes on all different topics of of Hashkafa. And he lived right here just a few blocks away. So here is a story and we can appreciate almost envision the story that I'll read it to you and we'll see a minhug uh that's very very beautiful. Um this and by the way it's from a safer called Shiraayam. It's a biography or a the stories of uh about Rabbi Yakob um Mr. Harve Berlin. I don't know who that is but he tells the following story when I was young. This is the famous school elementary school uh that was by the by the by Yehuda again going back to the the 40s 50s. It was known that was a very very holy person. His special of Shabbat. When my friend invited me for Shabas to come to Sharass, where is Sharass? >> Right here. That's it. Right out these doors. Shassed the this neighborhood. So my friend, he saw he was a young boy. He was invited by his friend to come for Shabas and to see to kind of look in the window or to walk in and to see how Rabbi Khalap would prepare for Shabas. And he said, 'When I had that invitation, I jumped on the opportunity. I came early. I came early and I discovered that the raval was already preparing for Shabas. And this is what I want to highlight. And what did he do before Shabas? He sat and he recited Shir Hashir, the book of Song of Songs. Shalom bear of Shabbat. His reciting of Sherim right before Shabas after he went to the mikvah. He wore white clothing for Shabbat. That was a custom amongst many of the theim here in I was hearing the angels sing before God before the holy throne. an amazing clinging to Hashem. The way he recited it, he was reading it out loud. Certain verses he would begin to cry as he would recite. This is one of the beautiful minhagim I didn't grow up with as Minhug. that I've tried that I tried to do on a regular basis before Shabbat and the point that you made earlier is an excellent point that you can rush Shabbat rush into Shabbat. In other words, to make the time before Shabbat to bring in Shabbat in a beautiful manner. And one way of doing that, it's more popular in the Spartic circles. But it's something that Rabbi Khalap did, Ravar Levin speaks about doing it in other sadikim and many people to recite the book of Shir Hashirim as Shabbat is right before Shabbatim. Do it. That is correct. And what you do it beautiful. Yeah. I happened to look in the nivo shalom which is a very popular safer of the rebi. So his first pieces about Shabbat is about reciting Shir Shirim that he talks about that it's a longing for Hashem and the weekday is a longing to to reconnect with Hashem. So that's a something to think about something to a suggestion um to bring Shabbat to add to the richness of Shabbat that we're ready for Shabbat. We've showered. We have we're dressed. And it's still an hour before Shabbat to sit down in a quiet manner and uh and to recite and to recite Shir. Okay. Maybe it's not practical. Okay. Now, another another suggestion for Shabbat. This one is very difficult for me. Something that I've not adopted, but um we'll see. Maybe it maybe it works for some in the room. This is from a safer called Vanagot, which is different laws related to Shabas. And what's the topic? Lashon kodesh. Lashon kodesh is speaking Hebrew and speaking Hebrew on Shabbat shal the kadesh the great capitalist only Hebrew and Shabbat. He writes if he was teaching and had to explain something in another another language so that the those that were listening would understand. She was also careful not to speak about other matters even in lashes. This is something that has spread according to the also gives testimony to the fact that speaking Hebrew on Shabbat is an ideal that people who are strict people that are careful that they speak only it's a day of holiness. Shabbatu and one other source he brings from the safer Yoseph which I looked it up was safer written about 200 years ago writes the following an who are an MS people that are careful about people that are maybe strict whatever may be the ane especially in the land of Israel an shabis only to speak Hebrew. And he writes the following. Not only is the language of Hebrew a holy language and it brings holiness to Shabbat. If you're going to only speak Hebrew, you're going to be more careful. You're going to be more careful about speaking things that are prohibited on Shabbat. Vamaguna, those things that are not fitting for Shabbat. if you're speaking Hebrew and making an effort. So now you're going to be more concerned what you're going to be saying as well. Um so this is this is a minhug that some have and a very very beautiful idea and just to yeah just one comment on this Rkook in the home that he grew up in he this they he grew up in with following this minag this custom his parents brought up Rkook with this custom of only speaking Hebrew on Shabbat. Now how did they teach him Hebrew? So, by the way, in our day schools, we have Hebrew for 12 years and somehow we were not we're not not very successful in teaching our young people to speak Hebrew. This is how they did it. So, he was a young boy and uh they had him review safer brashit. In other words, to read safer brachit and essentially to memorize it as a young boy safer brashit to review it again and again. Once he had that vocabulary of safer brashit now to speak with the words of safer. So maybe it didn't sound like the way we speak Hebrew today not quite the same but using the biblical Hebrew and that's how they spoke on Shabbat. And Rufuk was raised as a young boy with his min of only speaking Hebrew on Shabbat. And I know certain rabbis certain people that do follow this custom again during the week regular speaking English in the home. But for Shabbat one Shabas enters to only speak Hebrew in the home. something to think about. Maybe at one meal over Shabbat to say, "We're going to break our teeth." We tried. It doesn't work. I know, right? It's not going to work. It'll be very quiet in my home if we're all only speaking Hebrew, right? Or at least for me, I I'll break my teeth. All Shabas. Yeah. >> Between and >> Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. If I mean, it's just No. No. I mean, it's just another They're speaking their language. >> Speaking the holy language, lashon kodesh, Hebrew, I >> you know like my my son talks all the time about the difference between >> Oh, I Okay, so you're saying there's some distinction meaning the modern terms or the modern language. Okay. So there may Okay, maybe there's some distinction but Hebrew Hebrew. Yeah, I think we could all agree it's Hebrew. Yes. >> Is there any kind of qualification or speaking Hebrew if the people at the table >> or guest or whatever >> if they don't >> don't >> yeah no I I agree with you I think that would be difficult for people and uh yes you want to make people feel comfortable >> write anything about that >> right no he doesn't no >> okay so now we come to uh coming to coming to the close so here are some ideas again we spoke about how we bring in chabas in a uh with shir a shirim the way that we observe serve Shabas. Maybe this idea of a little bit more of a little more Hebrew on Shabas to honor the Shabas. That's what the Ariadosh the Schlas says. It was the way of Rafuk as well. How do we how to bring Sha how do we bring Shabas to a close in a in a holy way? How do we end chabas? So here and this is a continuation of what Rivkuk what we saw earlier in a rotouva. This is the top of page four and this is a rotouva again the same source it's chapter 14 piece 33 in a rotachuva and he writes the following and before we before I read it does anybody here have the minhug of of um singing aliyahu hanavi >> at the end of shabas >> yes okay nice okay >> reform we did it >> what's that >> reform >> the in the reform movement in. Okay. >> Okay. So, we're going to see in a moment. >> We're going to see in a moment. According to Raf Cook, what is Elia Na'vi? How does he make his way into the end of Shabas? >> Okay. So, here we go. So, he wrote before we get to that says Shabbat and a Shabas comes to a close beta again. We are to engage in chuva. Now, what chuva is that? Now, we were talking about a chuva for the week as we're entering Shabas. What's the chuva at the end of Shabas? >> To go back to our >> Okay. Well, Rafuk, I think the way that that we've reached now a higher level with Shabas, we've elevated ourselves and now to take that elevated holiness, that sanctity, and to take it with us. Other words, that it's a chuva that's a very positive chuva. It's a truth of all that holiness that we've embied on Shabas and now to to concretize that to bring that into our life not to leave it behind Shabasimus the light of Shabas that has entered us now to to hold on to that light should be pure without any ad mixture there was as we're taking that holiness of Shabas as we're ending Shabas, we want to bring that holiness into the week. How do we do that? So, this is what Rufuk writes. This is in his sided. This is the second source. And he quotes a a um he quotes a citation from the Zohar about Elia Na'vi. What does Elia Navi do every mo Shabas? This is what the Zohar writes that he sits under Israel. That's a line from the Zohar that at the end of every shabas this is sitting under the under the tree of life and he's writing down all of the merit all the beautiful aspects of the Jew and of the Jewish people. says, "Therefore, any person who has a yearning for the secrets of Torah, which relates to a revelation of Elijah on any level that one person that person is on even if it's something that you just have a likeness of this idea or emotion towards it. It's something more intellectual. And if God gives you a special a kindness, you've reached a higher level. Here's the key line at the end of every Shabas. Every Jew at the end of Shabas, what is part of the chuva that a Jew does at the end of every Shabas? to see the beauty of every Jew and of the Jewish people. Israel that a person should be engaged in seeing the merits of the Jewish people. kadush Israel that you should see in a clear way as Shabas comes to an end to see clearly the gadia the holiness of the Jewish people and the preciousness of the elevated level of the Jewish people and you should be connected to that amados this is the way that I understand or one interpretation that I give to Rivkuk I believe that we and you'll tell me if you agree with this we see people differently on chabas than we do than the than the rest of the week. We see people on the street. We say good chabas to people. People that we have which we don't always do during the week. We don't always say hello. How are you doing? Have a nice day. Right? We pass people on the street without saying hello to people. On chabas we generally say good chabas to people. We address people. people that are sitting at our table on Chabas. And I would say even my children on Shabas that they look a little bit holier on Shabas, they look a little bit sweeter on Shabas than they do the rest of the week. I don't I don't think it's only that they've showered and have nice clothing on, but there's something about the atmosphere of Shabas that we see each other in a different light. We see the beauty in one another in a way that we don't see others the rest of the week. Ravkuk says as you're coming to the end of Shabas so I want you says RVuk to be like Elia Nav'vi what does Elia Hanavi do says Zohar he's writing down he's taking note of the beauty of the Jewish people and I want you to take that from Shabas as well the beauty that you see the timistic that you see in others on Shabas I want you to bring some of that into the week that's the chuva of Shabas take that aspect of Shabas and now that you're in the week and now it's a Wednesday morning I want you also to see the beauty in the next Jew the way that you see maybe you can't do it quite the same but take some of that hold on to that that's the ch of shabas says I want you to bring that into the week and then to feel that you are part of the bond with Israel with the nation of Israel the way that you feel that on chabas bring that into the week as well I see a couple of hand let me take a comment or two yes >> one the message that Shabas is more common >> very nice beautiful beautiful >> if you had shabas Sunday Monday and Tuesday you'll have >> beautiful bring some of the calmness now Rfuk doesn't doesn't emphasize that aspect per se but yes that's a chuva of shabas as well some of the calm some of the serenity of shabas bring that into the week that's part of the chuva of shabas yes >> starts with iard from that At the end of you have all your fingers and they're all different sizes. But when we look at the light, we go like this. Why? Because we're going now to be with our fellow man. During the week, it's not it's we have to relate more to our fellow. Not that we don't chas also, but more during the week. So we go like this. All your fingers are the same size to show that each person is equal. That's how we have to criticized. Good, good, good. >> Very nice. So that's part of the story here as well. You're right. Eli Yahoo is very critical. So he has to learn to be more compassionate and to see goodness. Yes. >> Very nice. Wait, that whose custom is that? the that they say as they begin >> as they begin. Very nice. Yes. >> What's the purpose? Are we resting from the previous week or are we preparing for the >> It's both. It's both. Now, now we see from Cook that it's both. It's also to take the also to take the beauty of Shabas. I'll just end with one one anecdote. It's really just uh just to pick up on the on uh on what we just uh learned from Raf Cook and it was just and uh just a typical day on the uh on the bus. I just took a bus this morning making my way first to the uh the offices of the U and Harotim and then making my way over here. So I was thinking about what does one do on a bus in Israel? What does a religious Jew what does a uh a good Jew do on the bus? So what do you say? Say to Helm, very nice. Very nice. And you see people doing that. Maybe you're learning you're learning the da you're learning gummar on the bus. Maybe it's a mitzvah also to you could take it if you use your phone to to text people. Wish them aarta. Use the time well. So I wasn't doing any of those things. What >> pray for the pray that the bus driver is uh is going to get you there safely. Um, so there's something else that I I had an epiphany something else that you could do this morning which which from RV cook and that is because I didn't really want to be on my phone and didn't want to get nauseous reading dafamara uh on the bus. So this is what you can do. You can just look around the bus. You can look at amrael, right? You can look at a soldier that's on the bus and you can look look at a mother shleing her kids on the bus with a carriage and you can look at this far young woman on the bus appropriately and you can look at everybody on the bus and as Rafuk writes and to just feel how lucky you are to be a part of this great nation to be here in Israel to be building the nation of Israel As Ruf cook says, the Shabas comes to an end. And once you've felt that holiness, that elevation of Shabas to feel even more so the beauty of every Jew and the beauty of the nation of Israel. All right, I want to wish everyone a good sha and yes, we'll be back after the Yamtoim. Everybody is on break. Enjoy your vacation and we will see you um before brachi time.