Project Inspire Convention 2022 Rabbi YY Jacobson Experiencing The Full Majesty of Shabbos

okay thank you so welcome everybody brookhimmaboyim to what basin hashem will be a uplifting inspiring is that a good word to use shabbos and uh you know i always feel guilty such situations we're here in a beautiful hotel with beautiful food but there's 400 000 jews who live in ukraine it's not forty thousand jews forty thousand jesus is also every person is on islam it's four hundred thousand jews it's it's one of the big yeah the real number the real number remember most jews went into hiding for 70 years this every centimeter in ukraine is drenched with jewish blood from all jews suffered a lot but from all the places you people don't realize this we know of course about poland we know about galicia of course hungary and so forth but ukraine for a thousand years every centimeter is drenched with jewish blood so on such a shabbos it's important to remember the great principle and that is that the says in gomorrah and you shall me that the jewish people are one organism we're a body a single body and when you exercise any limb it helps every other limb in exercise we know that somebody says why what do you gain by strengthening your heart how does that effect help your brain how does it help your arms your legs but it doesn't work that way because it's a single integrated organism and it's the truth biologically that way and today we know the greatest forms of healing are the healing forms that look at the entire body in a holistic fashion not only one limb or one organ it's hard to find such people who see the whole picture not just one detail of the picture but that's a separate subject so the same is true spiritually with the jewish people when we strengthen one limb when we strengthen one demographic when we strengthen one community consciously and unconsciously the entire organism gets strengthened so our real at least my justification to be able not just to celebrate shabbos but to enjoy shabbos and to raise ourselves the shabbos is not just because it's jabba's and everybody wants a nice weekend off and be relaxed you know if they cook you don't have to clean hopefully the food will be good we'll see hashem when i say good my wife trained me it doesn't mean good i know it's going to be good i mean healthy nutritious of course you see that's why i look that's why i look the way i look because i go to a lot of shabbatons really we are one organism and when one part becomes stronger more empowered more powerful more focused more elevated in ways that we know and much more ways that we don't know all of our people are strengthened so today today our topic is sucking out the marrow of shabbos experiencing the full majesty of shabbos what's the exact wording anybody has a schedule experiencing the full majesty of shabbos so i was once asked a few years ago to speak to 3 000 students on friday night about shabbos and the rabbi on campus said you have three minutes because there's no microphone what should i do i hear you that's why they prepared two seats for you right here in front come don't be embarrassed i don't even i won't see you so it can fluff a knife i'm looking this way be careful what you asked for in life you wanted to hear you'll hear fun if you have to leave in the middle of it so i say three minutes yeah three minutes i'm like three minutes even the opening joke doesn't take three minutes takes longer he says you have three thousand students on campus friday night you don't have more than three minutes i said what do you want me to do in those three minutes explain to them what sharp assists so i had to figure out how to tell a joke in three minutes and explain what shabbos is so let me tell you what my uh brilliant conclusion was so there was once a fellow he was a very wealthy jew but he was equally stingy and the federation the jewish federation tried for years to mobilize him to inspire him to give to israel and other jewish causes why not give away pagan he wasn't interested one day after 20 years of trying they convinced him to go on a three-day mission to israel with the jewish federation of pittsburgh he agreed any requests they asked him they said he says yeah i have a humble request can i take along my dog with me to the holy land they said it'll be a pleasure they went and they bought the most expensive pet pack in america a gold a pet pack made out of pure gold they really wanted to impress this fellow and the day comes they give him the pet pack he arrives at ben gurion airport in tel aviv baggage claim they retrieve the suitcases they open up the pet pack it's time to call the havoc dog is dead they can't believe it they're trying 20 years to get this guy because of his affluence and prestige and success and finally he agreed and his dog is dead was titaman what do they do the first thing they told them your luggage got delayed in chicago for three days you know you got to buy time then they took a picture of the dead dog and through the idf they made it an idf emergency throughout israel does anybody have a dog that looks like this dog this is called a yiddish cup two days later a drew from bereshev call says yes i have the twin brother of this little dog kevaldek they buy over the dog he's in a suite on the 8th floor of the king david hotel in jerusalem they come up mr schwartz your luggage arrived from chicago we're sorry they bring in the pet pack he opens the golden pet pack out comes a vivacious levitica animated dog and this man faints they're like oh my god after everything we've been through we finally got this dog but he realizes it's not the real thing they revive him with cold water and the poor man is stuttering and he says a miracle i brought my dog to bury in israel [Music] look what a trip to israel does it resurrects even dogs now what's the moral of the story the moral of the story i don't know but but i'll tell you what i think is one moral of the story one more of the story is sometimes we feel as good jews that we have to fix situations the dog is dead let's go get a living one but sometimes there's really no need for it the dog is dead it was supposed to be that way he came to bury it in israel and in our desperation to change things we often forfeit opportunity to appreciate the reality the way it is and this is what i wanted to bring out to the students in three minutes i said in a jewish perspective six days a week we try to change reality we try to fix reality we try to repair reality you try to fix your wife sure you try to fix your husband sure you try to fix your mother-in-law good luck you try to fix your father-in-law try to fix your daughter-in-law a lot of hats you try to fix your son-in-law you try to fix your kids good luck your grandkids the world like ubisoft solanto once said when i was young i decided i'm going to change the whole world then i realized it's a tall order so i decided i'll change my country then i decided i'll change my city my community my family and now he says i'm 70 years old and i realize the only person i could change is myself the thing is if i would have started that way by now maybe i would have changed the world so for six days a week i treat at least i try to change myself and sometimes others my conditions my circumstances and it's the way to do it the passage says in a cave hashem tells myself tells the jews don't say it my own vigor my own animation my own strength made me successful so from here is a proof that a person has to flex their muscles because if i wouldn't have to use my strength there wouldn't be a question that it was kaikivwitz so from here we see that the jewish perspective is that one does maximize their potentials one does use all their resources one should not surrender to a life of quiet desperation one ought to really utilize all of their internal and external resources to try to enhance to try to improve to try to change to try to grow and elevate and alter whatever can be but then one day a week on shabbos v shabbos here life is not about changing my reality but about embracing my reality rather than looking what has to be fixed and things have to be fixed i rather focus on what is i celebrate who i am and what i have and i realize that where i am the space i'm in the time i'm in the person i am the situation i mean is exactly where i have to be right now it's not to focus on making a living but to focus on living itself the ability to breathe the ability to experience life itself rather than enhancing life and changing life as i told the students the dog is dead good don't change it you don't have to change everything it's hard for us it's hard for us to accept it's hard for us to embrace the jewish brain especially the ashkenazic jewish brain needs to always fix always repair tikkun oil and yet shabbos invites us to really go into a much a much deeper place the great capitalists explain you know one of the malaccas of shabbas that are forbidden is bearer boyer is a very interesting labor that's forbidden on shabbos i call it interesting it's i think the only melaka i'm not mistaking that there's no fences around it which means usually it's very hard to violate shabbos biblically made so many fences it's like when there's a nuclear reactor or when there's a dangerous hazardous place there's so many fences and so many warning signs that you don't get close that's what they did also with with biblically prohibited sins the one exception for this is barrier butter if you give me a salad and i don't like onions i really don't like onions and i take out the onions that are mixed in to the peppers and to the lettuce and to the tomatoes that is a biblical biter so berry is like a very serious it's a serious uh prohibition on shabbos it's one of the 39 melakas what's the concept of boyer so it's explained in massachusetts section 319 it's the concept of burial soils it's separating the bad from the good even the good from the bad but if it's done as a separation done with professional instruments and done as an objective in and of itself it's forbidden on shabbos the only way you're allowed to select is if you're about to eat something so you take what you want to eat you don't have to eat things you don't want to eat on shabbos but that's not called boire burger means if the objective is to separate to select the objective is to eat i'm not making feed onions eat the tomatoes take the cucumbers you don't have to but don't take the bats from the good what does this mean spiritually all week there's a concept of boiler life is mixed up between good things and bad things between healthy things and toxicity and part of life is to be buried to always beam a viral to always select it's what the body does constantly you eat and the body digests and what does the body do right away boiler the body in its brilliance identifies what's going into the bloodstream what's going to the fat reserve what has to be evacuated from the body what's nutritious what's garbage the body always does this before you go to the smokers board remember you're going to eat and your body is going to have to work i eat and my taste buds eat and then the body does bury for the next nine hours on shabbos spiritually speaking when we say bird is forbidden what does it mean on choppers the focus is not taking the bad out of the good shop is the folk there is such a concept but shabbos that's not allowed not because there's no bad because shabbas the focus is as the world gets elevated to celebrate the good but it's part of eating you're allowed to separate one of the most beautiful statements in the kadaidi shlaim al-kabats who lived in the 1500's and swas was killed in svas buried near the arizona in the famous old swash cemetery one of the graves that's died in blue with the basif and arizona the ramak and his brother-in-law marshall cordovera's brother-in-law was so it goes back to the magilta we have one of the contradictions between the two sets of ten commandments is in parishes yesterday it says hashem told the jew zachary and parsha's verse and the second time where she repeats that serious says the question is which one was said so our sages say zach of ashamar bedibur echoed zachary and sharma were both said as oh thank you as one statement there's one utterance and rashi says the mouth can't utter it and the ear can't hear it how do you say two words simultaneously even one word you have letter after letter after letter how do i say zucker and summer i could say zakhar and then afterwards i could say shamr i could say shaman afterwards i could say zakhar now we have a principle iran famously says god doesn't make miracles in vain what's the point of saying these two words as one okay hashem can do whatever he wants what's the point so you said zachary and sharma as one why can't you say zucker and then summer what what's the big deal the truth is probably the time of the qazal was hard to understand but i think today we can understand it quite well because shabbos and judaism has two aspects there's what's called zakhar and that's what's called shamr what does zohar mean zakhar means to remember how do we remember shabbos zach we remember shabbos a whole week the ramban rights we don't have in hebrew days for the week we don't have sunday monday tuesday wednesday we have bashabas and that's how we observe according to the rambans of zacharus le cache every day oh it's sunday it's not sunday it's the first day after shabbos it's the first day leading to shabbos it's not monday it's two days from shabbos it's leading to shabbos there was one sayed he used to do very long shallow shooters and once it was already past midnight and he was still busy with his fellow shooters so one of his students said rebbe you know how late it is he says it's still too early to start next shabbos so he wanted to continue his fellowships i don't know if he continued till the next friday plug but he continued for a while but then there is the remembering shabbos on shabbat so you may kiddish you put on special attire special garments we set the table we have delicious food it's the festive positive ambiance that permeates every jew and every home that celebrates shabbos that's the zucker of shabbos it's the positivity of shabbos this is the summer of shabbos what's summer means to protect to watch it's not something you do active it's like somebody who protects a guard it's passive i protect i don't want any harm to shabbos how do you protect shabbos so for this we have the llama test the 39 prototypes of laborers that are forbidden on shabbos that i learned out this week parshas vayakal from the lamitas malachis in the mishkan and all of the told us all of the offspring all of the branches and then there's everything that the rabbis added what's called things like muktsa etc that they created a protection for shabbos that the energy of shabbos the positivity of shabbos the ambiance of shabbos should be maintained so i don't put i don't cook on shabbos and i don't bake and i don't carry and i'll plow and i don't plant and i don't sow and i don't tear etc etc that's the summer of choppers the zucker of shabbos is very hard to argue with who can who can have anything against gefilte fish okay i'm not talking about the jargon filter fish that could create some trauma but i'm talking about a gesture piece of gefilte fish trauma bashem i don't mean real trump who can be against who can be against some healthy kuggle of course i know if it's too oily and fatty you should all be against it who can be against sourdough khala oh you're right who could be against a family sitting around the table and arguing at least they're around one table they're talking they're arguing hashem they're arguing yeah who could be against a family not singing and singing a song they're all singing the same song it's very hard any person whatever you believe system is it's very hard to argue against the warm ambiance the delicious food and the great camaraderie that one can feel on in one level or another level on a home on shabbos it's very hard to fight against the zohar but the summer the summer is already a whole other parsha the summer is seems to be so limiting it seems to be so restraining so constraining it puts a person in such a limited fashion people often tell me they feel enslaved and subjugated i can't do this and i can't do this and you know when you start learning he'll before you learn everything is permitted when you start learning everything is forbidden then when you learn enough you realize a lot of things are permitted and a lot of things are not permitted not everything is permitted and not everything is forbidden but sometimes there's this mental stress and therefore at some point in life there are people who want to let go of the summer but they want to maintain the zucker it happened actually in american history in the early 1950s the conservative movement which was called so because it tried to conserve which is summer to conserve judaism because it felt that the reform took it too far left and even professor abraham joshua heschel who came from apterov and was a professor in hebrew union college where at the smith when they served pork at the smith that was too much for him so he went over to the jewish theological seminary with the jts which was then a powerhouse he had people like shaw lieberman who was a cousin or a nephew of reborn barry had great people he needed panasonic he went also to the jts so they tried to conserve and jews were moving to the suburbs they were leaving the lower east side and they were leaving williamsburg and they were moving to the suburbs and shulls were far so the conservative movement in a desperate attempt to save shabbas allowed driving to shul and back on shabbos but just to shul just to show and and some of them meant well you have to save shabbos the jews lives four miles down the road there's not going to be no shabbos there won't be any you need to come to troll so this was their hatter so to speak what they didn't realize was that by taking away the summer you destroy it's one word it's not two words we say it as two words because we have no choice because we don't know how to say two words in one way it's really one word zach there's no zakhar without summer there's no summer without soccer if all shabbos is about negativity if it's about forcing kids to sit around the table in a miserable atmosphere maybe do a shama but it's not going to be azaka there was one sayid who came to his they said about one of the vision of cerebrus and he said he doesn't know how to pass it on to his children if it doesn't work yodeshkai he doesn't know how to pass it on to his kids so he told them just on the spot it's a cop he said the gemara says in the beginning of message shabbos right in the beginning the first mission of shabbas is hashabas steinstein eight scenarios of carrying on shabbos from inside to outside from outside to inside when it's permitted when it's forbidden when it's permitted biblically when it's forbidden biblically so the governor asks a question my right at the beginning of beijing he only mentions four scenarios of carrying on shabbos and the messages he mentions eight scenarios why the difference so the gemara answers i'll say it in aramaic and then i'll translate iker shabbos the theme is oaths shabbos has just brought their kagav incidentally so therefore we focus on the main principles but here massachusetts our focus is shabbos so obvious it told the sikko so we speak about the fathers we speak about the children we speak about the prototypes we speak about the offspring she said as follows the gemara is not just giving us an an analytical intellectual cerebral idea it's talking about a jewish home there's two types of jewish homes there's a jewish home with ikebus the main primary energy of the house is shabbos ikeshabas the whole week revolves around shabbos and on shabbos tati is in a good mood mommy's in a good mood tati and mommy are on their best behavior the shabbos table is a pace of place of sweetness a place of kindness there's good treats there's good stories there's a geshmaka atmosphere iker shabbas shabbos is an ikea in the house then ika others were icca told us the parents are involved and the children are involved there's a house where shabbos doesn't occupy such significance obvious ike told us let's just get it over with as fast as possible people are either nervous or tense or anxious or just exhausted let's just get it over fat when is when when can we get this over so that's very hard to pass on to the next generation so there's zucker and summer zachary bedibur they're set as one they didn't realize when they're compromising the summer of shabbos they didn't realize that they're taking away the zakar of shabbos also because their children asked a simple question if shabbos is something that you could play games with so why do i have to come to the meal i have a date with my girlfriend friday afternoon just because it's a family tradition if it's not if it's something that you could compromise on if it's not something that's true that's authentic so you cut 10 percent i cut another 10 percent and my child cuts another 60 and then child cuts cuts it all out i was once uh sitting in my house it was shabbos afternoon my oldest son who has a good the kepler can inaura and likes to challenge his parents as many jewish children today says tati if somebody he was a little kid he was probably six or seven he says tati somebody would come to you and offer you 25 million dollars and ask you to sign a paper on shabbos would you do it or not so i said i wouldn't he says i don't believe you i don't believe you have 25 how a six-year-old knew about the value of 25 million dollars and not to believe his father okay welcome to the 21st century it's not six years old the six going on 95. but he said i don't believe you it's too much money and it's just a signature take you two seconds i said listen it never happened nobody ever offered me 25 and not on shabbos not not on shoppers didn't happen sunday either but uh i i wouldn't sign at least i hope i wouldn't sign he says it doesn't make sense to me why wouldn't you why wouldn't you i realize a child asks us a question it's a moment you don't lose such a moment right you don't say don't bother me those are the greatest moments when i'm preaching they're not interested but when they're asking a question now is my moment so i said listen let me ask you a question somebody's going to come to me and offer me 25 billion dollars and they can keep you they can buy you off me okay and they'll treat you well i'm not worried that you're going to be mistreated you'll be fed you'll be nurtured you'll have what you need 25 billion dollars so i'll be leave lazari lazaro zari for many generations yeah you think atapi would accept offer so he thinks for a moment i realize my life is in the balance and what my wife is in the kitchen is going to determine a lot of the future what type of person i am he says you won't kevaldek wow okay i said thank you but i have another question do you think tati will have to think about it do you think i'll need a day or two or three days to think about it till i say you know what it's not worth it my child is better than 25 billion dollars he thinks he says probably you won't have to think about it i'm like wow why not he says i don't know but you probably wouldn't have to think about it so i said i'll give you words i'll give you words the words are cause some things in life are priceless it's not 25 million it's not 25 billion somebody offers to somebody yeah they'll give their child 25 billion dollars and they'll kill them they'll poke out both of their eyes what's the price for seeing what's the price for somebody having eyesight what's the price a million dollars 10 million dollars what's the price for living another 10 20 years some things are priceless we see it in halacha even kaisha it's priceless so i said a child it's not money it's something that doesn't have a priceless so i said i want you to understand that shabbos is priceless it's a pr it's a priceless gift it's not this amount of money that amount of money it's a priceless gift it's a it's it's an intimate gift that the ubanishalam gives the jewish people no money could buy it what they didn't understand is that when you tamper with the summer they got rid of the zacharosa and it was a tragedy because a whole generation lost even the positive ambiance of shabbos it's just not sustainable i was once talking to a friend of mine he's a secular jew and he said he comes to shabbos a lot and he says i love shabbos but the prohibitions i can't deal with i want to bring in shabbos but without the prohibitions i told them it's going to last for three weeks he said why i said it's very simple you have a 16 year old girl what does she do friday night he says she dates i said so you tell her that today we're gonna and we're gonna have a family meal she'll come i said great but what happens if the date is right that time so what are you going to tell her i'll tell her that there's a family tradition that goes back thousands of years she'll say daddy i love it i'll start it next week but this boy i can't get go he wants to go with the to the movies with me i'm not letting go of it what's going to be your argument for gefilte fish therefore she should give up such a promising thing that's so exciting her what's your argument against it he said what would you tell your daughter i said listen you can't force somebody to keep shabbos but when somebody says and really believes that god the creator of the world gave this to the jewish people with a manual of how to celebrate it now everyone has to choose whether they're going to accept it or not it's a choice everyone makes choices no question about it but there's something here that transcend all transcends all the pressures or cravings in the world so do you think i would get off my computer before listening it's four o'clock i still have 6 000 emails to answer i would find an excuse and say listen i'll do it another few hours i said everybody he said no we'll make a decision we're not going to use the phones by dinner i said yeah but if you're waiting for a deal fifty thousand dollar deal you're going to find a header to go to the middle of the meal out to your room and check your texts so the power of shabbos is the absoluteness of it it comes in you're not waiting for it maybe you're expecting it a jew is always in a rush hopefully not this shabbos always in a rush there's always something to do it's here i have another hour no other hour that's the power of summer it's the divine summer that allows the soccer to flourish in a crazy world in a funny world there was always a question if newspapers are for the orthodox jewish world in the beginning of the 1900s there was a big argument in poland among russia shivers and rebels the funny thing today is that all things that are in print are going out of business they're struggling the only ones that could sustain it is those who have reading material for shabbos for those who need reading material on shabbos it's interesting how it works in history so without the summer there's no zucker but now we come to one more step and i want to go one step deeper this is a big question that people often ask what does it mean that hashem rested on shabbos he worked for six days and then he rested what did he need to rest was he exhausted did he exert himself and therefore i have to rest what does it mean it's true hazal says hashem finished on the seventh day his melaka sarah she says he didn't finish it on the seventh day finished it on the sixth day so rashi says different explanations one of them is that after hashem created the world mahaya the world was missing serenity rest tranquility shabbos came menuh came coast of enigma and now the malacca was finished in other words when it says hashem finished working on the seventh day it means what was the work of the seventh day he added the dimension of rest why is that part of work that's not part of work that's what happens after work but ghazal said finished on the seventh day what was it is the cessation of work but that's not how they saw it is is innate in the process what does that mean i want to discuss it on a more practical level and then on a more spiritual psychological slash emotional level on a more practical level there was a great pianist very top world-renowned pianist exceptionally exceptionally talented and world-renowned and a friend of his who grew up with him said what made you so renowned i play notes as well as you do i follow the notes what is it about you that makes you such an exceptional pianist and he looked at him and he said it's the pauses it's the pauses that make all the difference how long the note continues for the pause between the notes those of you are familiar with communication you know as important as communication is it's the pauses it's the silence and i say if it is that every letter has to be surrounded by four sides with empty parchment caul has to be surrounded every letter has to have that white space all sides the separation the space the pause the silence the greeks and the romans and their writings accuse jews of laziness why every six days they need another vacation every single that's what they write they don't believe in work the gemara says in megillah that haman told the khashweirish every day they have another excuse why they're not showing up in the business days he didn't even know what it was so the romans the greeks the persians accused the jews of laziness what didn't they understand they didn't understand that it's the pauses in life that allow for the work to actually not destroy people it's the pause it's the menuha it's the serenity it's the tranquility that allows the person to be able to be present it allows the person to pause to reflect to become introspective i was once at a seminar it was focused on equality so i said you know people don't realize what the ancient institution of shabbos meant today we take it for granted we say it in the kiddish day after you had a world that was filled with slavery everybody had slaves thousands of years before abe lincoln everybody had slaves jews also had slaves good the gomorrah says be careful with the jewish slave because if you buy a jewish slave you're not buying a slave you're buying a master it's like hiring a jewish employee you know you could sign already your resignation papers but there was slavery but imagine this concept once a week there was no such a thing you tell the slave to work once a week the slave was sitting in misrah of shul just like the owner he got the same aliyah he got the same ishabaira he said at the same kiddies rubbed shoulders with the same multi-millionaires today we take these things for granted where would they exist in the ancient world that the slave is rubbing shoulders with this most accomplished scholar or wealthy person in the community sitting side by side davening to the same god in the same shul with complete equality once a week there was absolutely no demarcation no difference you couldn't tell the slave what to do you couldn't tell them to work it's a day off and not even animals even animals had that dignity you don't work them to the bone even animals their integrity their strength their their sensitivity has to be protected this was a fascinating concept in the ancient world which didn't recognize this concept shabbos was the great equalizer because it was the pause it was the pause so i was once in brazil and i was asked to speak the safra has a school that has like 1100 kids and i was asked to speak to 12th grade high school about choosing a career i'm like you got the wrong guy i don't even have a job my kids always ask me tati what do you do for a living and i don't know what to do i look at my wife she says i have the same questions i say mr safra why do you want me to give them career advice you got the wrong guy what am i going to tell them to do make make y clips on whatsapp tick-tock clips whatever you don't want me to advise them he says go you talk you talk tell them about career advice i got up a bunch of kids these are brazilian kids uh south american kids mostly sparta kids come from very well to do families want to get good jobs they don't have exactly the same yeshiva system like here in america so what am i supposed to tell them i told them the truth i said really they got the wrong guy the wrong person to talk to you about a career choice but all you boys and girls look brilliant to me so i want to tell you whatever you guys choose to do i'm sure you will be successful that's my brilliant advice to do you do work hard don't be lazy put in the work you got to do you guys will be successful i am sure about that but i do have to say something so i'm going to tell you a little story and this is the story i told them there was a doctor that came to a stettle the problem was it was a yiddish tattle so there were already a hundred doctors there so he didn't have parnosa so he comes to thereof and he says imagine i'm a good doctor and i don't have color for shabbos they don't need a doctor the rabbi says here's my advice to you listen to what you got to do okay you have to give an impression that you're unreachable you're under he says how nobody even calls me he says put an ad in the paper and the first call you get tell them that you're booked for three and a half months and every call you get tell them three and a half months and give everybody the same exact appointment the same time so the office will be full whenever anybody reaches out to you says good shabbos hello i don't have time i'm busy there's a office filled with patience you don't stop to talk to anybody good shoppers i gotta run there's an office filled with patients and so rumor will have it that you're a busy guy and you're successful shiny puts an ad in the paper two weeks no call two weeks later there's a call he wants to tell the person come come fast but he remembers the rabbi's advice he says i'm sorry three and a half months waiting list he says why you're so good he says it looks so it seems at least many people think so and so three and a half months finally all the appointments were together and everybody comes it's a packed office and he's running from one office to another life there's schvitz you don't know what he's doing by schmitz he's sweating and sure enough within a few weeks the place was packed you know how jewish expertise gets passed on from family to family from all the hello every jew is a neuroscientist or almost a neuroscientist do i have a doctor for you he's unbelievable he gives lossengers in any case this guy was not just doing well he was making a kill and he followed the rabbi's advice blindly if you met him in the street and say hi i don't have time i gotta run anyway here i am the doctor is walking and the rabbi meets him and the rabbi says dr good morning my wife is suffering from migraine headaches i need help rabbi don't you know i have an office filled with patients you think i have time to stop in the street you call my office i'm busy the rabbi looked at him and says doctor never forget who made you busy and when he asks you for a favor you pause and you're there for him so i turned to all these kids in brazil i said you guys are going to do well i could see it in your eyes i could see it in your heart you're ambitious you're creative you're smart you're good people and you're gonna get very very busy just don't forget who made you busy and when he asks you once a day close the store once a day close the shop once a day don't go on the internet once a day don't use your pho once a week don't use your phone once a week don't go to the office once a week close it down don't say i don't have time i'm busy making money i'm busy taking over the world great take over the world just remember who made you busy and he asked you once a week you dedicate to your spouse to your children to your family to your loved ones to your god and remember that in the secular world this concept doesn't exist because even though people want this concept but it's not enforceable because it's not practical because if it's friday night and i'm a secular jew and i'm getting a text and it's an important text i'm going to answer it even if culturally i want to have one day off my phone the only thing that makes me not answer it is that i believe that the creator of the world really does not want me to answer that text i may understand it i may not always understand it that's the only thing if not why shouldn't i check my email there's always one busy email that you got to respond to on friday night come on i'm not destroying the day it's just one but as you know it's like telling a man to eat one potato chip there's no such a thing ever answered one text you ever watched one clip it's like we're eating one cookie sure there's no such a thing i'm not talking about the ezra's nothing you're very good at it i'm talking about this side there's no such a thing it's too tempting so this doesn't exist in the secular world this is the power of what we have to introduce people to shabbos a different energy that the master of the world made me busy and asked me one day a week to stop it's not about success it's not about changing things it's about celebrating what it is finally the last point is on a somewhat on a deeper level and this has to do with the story the holy original the bistrol of vision was a child he was an orphan they were learning a gamarian shabbos somebody goes in the forest in the wilderness and he gets lost in the a day of shabbos now why he didn't take his phone finished could be the battery died whatever it's a question on the gemara but he gets lost he doesn't know when shabbos is what do you do so there's two opinions do you what keeps count six days and keep shopping do you do shabbos and count six days the luck is you count six days and you keep shabbos even though you're not sure it's shabbos so the russian that was nine years old he turns to his teacher says i don't understand the gemara so he says it over again i don't understand he says it over again a few times i don't said what don't you understand the guy loses his calculation of time he says i don't understand how can a jew not know when shabbos is you look up he says you look up he says the world is not the same world how could you not know when champion says so the teacher said you're going to be a great jew one day i understand the gemara you don't understand a similar story happened with the dursioner with the rabbi of hamil in russia his name was isaac alaihi epstein the rabbi of humble islamic and he once came to visit and it was friday afternoon they were talking about the fate of russian and ukrainian jury and uh delusional was listening and listening and disgusting and rabbi eisel humbler who was a a hashiverov in russia and hamilt said later he said it felt like we were like almost have russell like he was saying an opinion i was saying an opinion derision had a minik in the morning in the afternoon he would smoke a pipe he smoked a pipe they used to connect it with toyora's the burning of the incense in the morning and the afternoon of the basamignas and when the shamrocks comes in it's already afternoon he gives division of the pipe he's smoking the pipe shabbos it's ready friday afternoon it was a winter there's a wind there was a winter friday it was a short friday and by the camelot was a little perturbed by his apparent apathy that shabbos is coming usually you fail on jews you know they're a little stressed out right even here in the hotel mr spilkus right like what's happening what's this what's what's next thing in the tea room like even in a hotel jews don't know how to not to be stressed before shoppers it it's part of the hefts of shabbos doesn't have the way you are it's not it's a it's an essential state right it's hard for jews to be relaxed especially before shabbos and he's smoking this pipe he's talking more about russian jury the shamash comes in he says in a few minutes is candlelighting okay he continues the conversation candlelighting comes he puts out the pipe and he sits there and he says russian rabbi you want to come be my combo shabbos with me you want to welcome shabbos with me says i would love to he goes over to the window he looks out the window as the sun is setting and have isaac told the story and he says in the mata and he ascended up up and i remain down here my question to you is what did the illusionist see when he looked up in the stars and he said how can you not know when shabbat says what is it that he was referring to so very very briefly i want to conclude on this note what is shabbos what is shabbos till now we spoke about the social benefits the religious aspects of it the laws the benefit for the family for serenity the pause the equality the commitment the dedication god's will all ms vyatsif but let's now go one one step deeper it's a little bit of a deep concept and i have seven minutes until the tea room but i'll share it very briefly this is from the teachings of the arizona and the teachings of the balshemptiv and the vilnigan and the balatanya and the way it goes is as follows what does it mean hashem rested so hashem creates the world and he creates the world every single moment now we have to understand what this means when we say hashem creates the world and then he rests what exactly does it mean i'm tired he's not tired he's not exhausted the profound message here is and this is why the world is different on shabbos and this is why deep down a jewish soul feel something on shabbos feel something very deep on champis maybe consciously maybe not always consciously some people feel it more some people feel it less but a sensitive person you walk into the house and shop as a mother is lighting candles and there's a certain area a certain light that comes into the house on shabbos now in order to appreciate what it does to a jewish soul i want to tell you a story i heard from the person that happened to he passed away last year his name was rabbi haddin steins from yerushalayim very wise man he wrote the translated stanzald's gemara and he wrote like 70 or 80 books he lives he lived in the german colony in urushalayim shah this morning he went every shabbos morning to david in the al shtaat in the old city of yerushalayim and i heard from him once he was walking shabbos morning to shul and he meets a professor who we knew he was a liberal arts professor he was also an artist and he was a left-winger but a left-winger like an israeli knows how to be a left-winger which is much more left than an american knows how to be a left-winger because when jews are left-wingers they're they're they're real left-wingers and he says oh shabbat shalom he says and where are you going he says there's one restaurant in urushala where they still serve bacon and eggs so the covered shop is kaidish i make sure to go there shabbos morning for bacon and eggs but then he says that's interesting what do you do for lunch he says there's a bar that you could still find real yayanessa real nasty not stamienam he tells rival the real things i go there for for shabbos lunch he says that's amazing what do you do for solace he says there's a place where you can get fresh shrimp so the covered shallots sugars i go there he says and what do you do between the meals so between the meals i make sure to go to the beach and be my til dallad amis make sure to walk around and carry my books that i read this is what he's telling rewarding about his shabbos schedule so then was a smart person he says anime kanebecha i'm jealous of you he says why are you jealous of me because you have such a horrible shabbos he says no no no no i'm jealous of you because of how much shabbos affects you i can't say that shabbos affects me so much by me shabbas is sometimes very routine boring but you you don't just sit home and read a novel on chavez you you got to go find a place where they have bacon and shrimp and lobster and yayanessa you're busy caring he tells them you also observe shabbos you just do it in a little bit of a different way than i do but he says i see that shabbos really gets to you every shabbos you have to do something in order to celebrate shabbas the way you like to celebrate shabbos and he wished him kachambas the yidd became shabbos why he realized the truth of what he was saying somebody once told me a christian i told him what do you think about jews a smart guy he says all jews are religious i said really you don't know them i know jews they're not he says you don't understand he said even jewish atheists are religious i said what are you talking about he says they deny god with religious fervor i said wow that's so interesting he says a jew doesn't know how to not be religious he denies god it's also with the religion everything is with a religion i once heard from the laboratory he says they trust arafat with the kayak that's reserved for the rebirth of islam jews trust arafat this was the days before oslo with the kayak that's reserved for the rabbi nashville jews have a kayak the question is were you going to direct it jews are religious they're deeply committed the question is to what the greatest revolutions in history were always created through jews why because they have a revolutionary spirit they want to change the world every jew wants to bring mashiach every jew wants to bring the gula every jew wants to make it a good world the question is is it going to be through a meshgas or it's going to be lesac so shabbos is embedded in the dna of a jewish soul but why is it embedded in the dna of a jewish song so that reasonable explains the world is created and as we say in davonin the world is created every single moment but what is the world what is the universe so we used to think when we read percayavus it says the world was created through ten utterances we almost think like okay hashem spoke and the world came into being like they used to say abracadabra kadu evra adabera i create as i speak the apostle says hashem spoke and there was spoke and there was spoken there was the positive says in tehillah today we know in science and physics that this is actually the most elegant way of describing reality because if you want to describe a living organism at the core of every living organism is the dna which is defined by physicists and by scientists as letters in other words all living organisms use the same dictionary they use the same dna we share dna 50 of our dna with a banana we share 99 percent of our dna with a chimpanzee what makes every one of us unique is that unique sequence that is your unique imprint of batella melakim and it's a tiny tiny little distinction in other words the whole world is united as science began to progress they saw that if you use microscopic eyes you see that the underlying reality behind all matter is its atomic structure and each atom is made up of its subatomic particles so basically you're talking about energy at the core of the universe now what is at the core of everything at the core of everything is divine energy so when you say hashem spoke and the world came into being it's not just abracadabra some superstitious mystical idea that we have no connection to it's actually a description of the universe it's cutting-edge physics it's basically describing that if you go deeper and deeper and deeper into matter you're going to really discover that it's all divine energy that's what it is everything is divine energy now usually when i create something how do i rest somebody's playing basketball for a few hours somebody's running on a treadmill for an hour somebody's driving for a few hours somebody's mopping or sweeping or working hard sitting at your computer whatever it is you sit down on the couch you relax and you're serene and you take back your energy whatever you created remains intact what i created remains intact and now i relax that's true when a person relaxes when you say hashem rested what does it really mean when you say hashem rested it means when i rest i take my energy with me when hashem reclaims his energy what does he reclaim together with it he reclaims the entire universe because the entire universe is made up of divine energy that's called in kabbalah al-shababs is alias if you ever read the kegan an english translation for those who say kagama this is the theme of kegavana not just rosenblatt niggin it's a deep concept from the zohar that on shabbos the worlds ascend what does it mean the world's ascend on shabbos what is this like some mystical idea what it means is just like when a person relaxes after work they reclaim their energy but my energy doesn't make up the thing i created the thing i created is distinct for my energy but of the whole universe is divine energy so when hashem so to speak allows himself to go back into himself and his energy comes back the whole world goes up and therefore on shabbos the world is not any more divine speech it's called divine thought it says in your xiaomi this is a little strange to people but khazal say bekushi hitiru ladabe dividitaria beshabas it was hard for khazal to allow that we speak words of tehran shabbas so everybody asks what should we do the answer is we should be singing why but because you have to speak so they allowed you to speak words of terror because champions is really a time of mahashava shabbas is really a time of alias it's a time that the neshama sends it's the world is transformed from something of speech to something of thought speech my energy is externalized it's concretized thoughts the gemara says nobody knows what's in another person's mind so when i think it's completely inside of me it's intimate during the six days of the week hashem speaks the world into existence on shabbos hashem thinks the world into existence what's the difference between words and thoughts words can be misconstrued because words leave me thoughts nobody can misconstrue because nobody knows what i'm thinking thoughts are inside of me so on shop it's friday evening when hashem rests what does it mean he rests all of his energy gets elevated so to speak comes back into himself from the world of speech it goes into the world of thought of makshava in the world of thought everything is one all the melakas of shabbos begin with the malachi not taking out from why because that's the whole shabbos the whole shabbas says don't take life out of rashu-sayakid out of a private domain into the shusarabham into a public domain during the six days of the week there's two different domains on shabbos you don't take anything out from the private domain into the public domain so as you welcome shabbos you light the candles on shabbos you welcome shabbos what's the meditation the meditation is that now and if you look outside and if you if you relax and you allow yourself to breathe in the energy of shabbos every soul can experience a little bit of this the worlds literally go through a metamorphosis they go through a transformation they go through an alias illimis becoming from something that is a word to a thought something that can be concretized and separate to something that is completely unified and integrated on shabbos a person can get more in touch with their own unity with their own oneness with the oneness of the whole entire world we sometimes wonder what's this idea of violating shabbos khillo shabbas the terror takes it so seriously the penalties are so heinous why why because from a trainer perspective champions is a very real reality there's a holiness of shabbos the world is a different place on shabbos what's the big deal if i take a key in my pocket and i bring it from a private domain to a public domain who suffers what's the big deal if i plowed a little bit on shabbos i planted i lit a fire my rash what happened what happened i was bordered on shabbos only when a person can tune into the fact that on shabbos hussein once asked this to me somebody once asked this to me he was getting married i said what would you say if in the middle of the chuppah the carson is putting on a ring on the collar my phone is vibrating let me check my message he said i would kill that guy i said if it was your daughter what would you do i wouldn't let her go home with him i said why it's a phone it's important because there's different moments everybody understands the different moments on shabbos there's such a real kedusha in the world the world is a different place and hashem invites the jewish soul into that holiness because the jewish soul also comes from israel so therefore even something that somebody else may seem insignificant and inconsequential and valueless it's a real violation of the energy of the atmosphere the ambiance of shabbos because of its intensity because of its power so in every person's life shabbos is an opportunity to be able to take every all the energy that we put out there a whole week and reclaim it and allow ourselves to be reclaimed by hashem and all our energy to be subsumed in the oneness of enoid mulvader have a wonderful beautiful and inspiring shabbos station