Rabbi Braun: "Focus on the Positive This Shabbos"

we have a special shabas coming Upon Us shabas Bas I have a personal request for all those who wish to listen our children have been surrounded this week by things they shouldn't be surrounded with even if we firmly believe that our kids have zero access to social media it's impossible for them to miss what they're hearing from the adults all around them it's not only our children it's us our us too our entire environment has been saturated with horrible stuff shabas is our island of Serenity of Tranquility of peace let us make the chabas a true chabus of peace and Tranquility let us not talk about the war at all we have so much that we can focus on the positive we can talk about the quality of am that we have seen during this week the fact that Eden Jewish people are comp passionate sensitive kind caring we've seen an outpouring of we could talk about the very first Rashi in this week's pares that the world was created for the Jewish people sh we are the first we are the top of the entire world and we have never seen it so strongly at least In Our Lifetime we we can see that even in this world not the sh up there but the gofin the bodies down here of the Jewish people compared to all other nations they have Clarity you know what's good and what's no good and they act with such an outpouring of goodness and kindness let us talk about what we say Ines us you gave us with so much love you chose us among all nations sonash you Sanctified us please for this shabas for your sake for your kids sake there's so many people that are fortunately will not be able to keep shabas this week it is considered a form of keeping chabas they appeal that we'll be flying out on for the first time in over 40 years this shabas because they're going in a special mission to rescue am the soldiers that in the battlefield the shabas they will not be able to observe shabas the way we can observe shabas we can come to sh we could sing in sh we could dance in sh we could get together at home at our shabas table but not only at our shabas table wherever we meet with people don't allow those conversations in of course I'm talking about after ding to lead away from what we should be focusing on shabas is the foundation of the year the way we act in that's how the entire year goes for us it's going to be a year of year of a year of Peace A year of no and that is dependent on us and prepare something to speak about ask your children to prepare something a beautiful story a nice a nice after all we starting a new cycle ofish and a new cycle of something inspiring make the shabas table something to be memorable forever and not only in R but in gmias too go out and Splurge for the shabas the is that whatever we spend on shabas and yam is not counted in our annual budget that hasem gives us you could spend as much as you want and hashm will repay you for it if you don't normally buy flowers buy flowers buy more flowers buy some good food make an extra cougle say an extra I'm not suggesting should drink more use fancy silverware is to make it a nice beautiful shabas make the shabas a shab should be remembered let the shabas be our island of Peace an island of positivity an island of optimism an island of sim breaks all barriers positivity breaks all barriers hasem gave us an opportunity we don't have to be glued to the news we can be away from the news for 24 hours some people are 24/7 in that Quagmire we have no choice and we're lucky that we have no choice there one day we can set aside close our phones close our computers close our radios we can now just be just us with Hashem and there's no greater Simka than being together with Hashem in a world of kadha finished all his work and he didn't work on shabas and we are also going to have a shabas of Peace may this shabas bring in and Herald the the day of absolute peace the ultimate peace that we're waiting for the peace