PART 2: Singing Shabbos (Ep. 214)

hi this is D olowski and welcome to the rabbi olowski show and whether you're watching with our friends over at toy time whoever you watch or listen to your podcast as always it's exciting to have you along for the experience and you know we're in the middle of doing our shabas series of course a number of the G Torah told us that shabas is a shmir Shir shabas shabas protects us I think it was sh who said more than the Jews have kept the chabas the shabas have kept the Jews and um uh we um we are uh going through different aspects of chabas so I did the right now I want to do the zirus I did the Friday night zirus and uh I got some feedback that it was kind of technical you know it's not like you went into it but Ian you went through it pretty uh quickly you gave a little bit of explanation which is what I try to do try to make it meaningful if you want to go into it in Bean I'm not averse to that I have a Shear that I give on Sunday night um here in ell which is I guess Sunday afternoon in America Sunday morning in Los Angeles maybe Monday in Australia I don't know but uh uh but the point is that uh you know I can spend um many many hours on one BR of and developing different uh concepts of it so like we're we're we just finished out sikim and uh you know we had a whole class on the difference between sadik and and um and we had a whole class on Gat sedc and so I I could go into this in a lot of depth what I want to do is try to inspire people to say Theus and hopefully make them a little bit more accessible to people so is it going to be a little technical it's a little technical suck it up you know what I mean sometimes you can actually learn something here on the rabbi lowski show it's okay know we have that too we try to have things for everybody so every now and then I say some kind of brilliant Insight that is my complete own idea that has no basis for anybody or anything and sometimes borders on kir and I'll say that and sometimes I'll say over Schoen that I've heard from great people and sometimes I will give recipes but right now I'm doing this mirus so live with it and we have a sponsor for our zirus part two sponsored anonymously in honor of my parents 41st anniversary I got to tell you there was a time when that sounded very very old to me but as I approached my 42nd anniversary I have to say now full disclosure right and I'm I'm not uh I I wear my heart on my sleeve everybody knows everything about me you know so uh I'm I'm turning 65 on giml shvat and uh every now and then I turn to my wife and I say we're in our 60s which is something I I just can't even wrap my head around from my mind I'm still a young couple I I feel this way because I've avoid maturing over these years but you know but I remember when I was younger and I would look in the paper and I'd hear about a 40-year-old man and I'd think to myself wow that's so old and now I'm almost 65 and I read in the paper about a 40-year-old man and I say wow that's so old 41 years can I know her you know the great thing about having a 45th anniversary is you're already looking towards your 50th and uh I don't know what you do on the 50th Anniversary you know almost anything you do will be anticlimactic is it's such a big accomplishment you married for 50 years yeah um you know 25th anniversary which I I had already yeah it's kind of hard to get to 42 without passing 25 you know and that's always a pretty big one but 50th Ann AR you know remember one year someone sent me this uh this online birthday card with a little song on it you know I don't remember all the words to it but I just thought you know uh Happy Birthday what have you done that matters happy birthday each year you're getting fatter happy birthday you have not accomplished much but at least you you didn't die this year I guess that's good enough so that's it you just have to stick it out you know anyway thank you for all you have done and continue to do for me always and being true role models for me in all areas of life I hope I can continue giving youas and and thank you RAB olowski for giving us another thing to bond over wow we a pleasure and uh uh we should go on and uh all of us CL so boy do we need them and tough times tough times so uh during these tough times we're focusing on shabas okay we did in the last episod the Friday night mirus and now I'm going to do the shabas day mirus and as always I'm only doing the ones that I sang in Yeshiva the the ones that we we didn't do I I I can't really tell you because we didn't do them so uh um whether selective or not we start with KES kadaba we had that in mentioned k k is thees that you make in the morning that's the Mitzvah of you get with the Kish at night that is the night Kish is mitv the day is mitv called K and in fact the gar makes clear you could just make a bar piffin some people add in the POS and some people of course add in all the little paragraphs that are with it um but if you're ever stuck and you don't have a sitter or a bener just make a b pin you can't go wrong K all right and then there mirus and I'm using them for my bener in order of appearance and again the ones that we did so uh y y we didn't do so I can't tell you you know next episode of mem we will do uh Tunes because I'm not doing the tunes now I'll get somebody who's better at that than I am but uh B Elon is very long and every tune is a challenge because of that and I sometimes mix it up and do each stanza to a different tune just because it's so long but we'll go through it now it was written by bar how do I know because the first four letters of the first four SP standard spells spells out bar and the next three spell right okay blessed is the highest God who gave us rest yeah is is a emotional spiritual rest redeem our soul from all the suffering and [Music] groaning and he will seek out uh your city of Y that has been pushed away and will take away uh all of the groans and the sadness of your people uh if you keep shabas that's obviously based on the right you your son and your daughter so I I believe that instead of just saying you know men and women Ben ubas is because there is an aspect uh in Baron of the family and giving over to the children with this zmer um if you keep shabas I always thought it's interesting there are different types ofas right say but why does it say and one of my kids gave me what I think is a very simple answer it Rhymes okay but this was written by Ron you know I mean this this stuff this isn't just cute little things that you stick in there yeah so uh why at one time I saw a bener that had a leut of mam on it I can't find it now here I am doing mirus and I can't find it but I remember seeing they were selling it and it's basically a bencher just has little insights and this question has bothered me for so many years and I said if it gives an answer I will buy it and then of course I can't find it but uh but I opened up right to that why is he says this is a Min that's made in a frying pan and says the leuan even if your shme shabas is hard and dry like a fried cake not white and fluffy like like a Spong cake it's it's it's hard and dry who still wants your shabas yeah this is a response to the people who think you know if I can't do it 100% why should I bother doing it it's okay better to do it sometimes yeah i' I've told this story back in Mya Series where the way I heard the story was there was this from person who was meeting with benorian and uh he looks he sees the sun getting ready set he says I'm sorry I have to die and he goes to the corner of the room and he does what we call in the vernacula a quicky when he comes back benan says you call that a m so he says no but because I do that three times a day every now and then I D with cavana he says if you can say you've D with cavana once in your life it's worth doing that three times a day every day of your life it's been Goring so even if is hard and dry it he who rides up in the highest Heavens the king of Worlds as Amish uh to that we should keep the shabas E you uh made us he with pleasant words um I I I think and I didn't see this anywhere but I think uh you know when hasem spoke at har we all died it was a very difficult situation and it says very very hard words what do you mean so I thought where did he say it nicely when he said to uh the women Co something soft so maybe this is like I say Ben right when when we're saying it over to our children we say it over pleasantly all kinds of tasty treats and delicious foods we dress up in clothing of honor and we have a fancy family meal fancy family meal I've had secular people over my house for shabas and they said what you do here every shabas we call that Thanksgiving once a year we have a meal like this where we sit in the dining room we take out the China from the china cabinet you know says you do this every single week it's a Thanksgiving all the time yeah and uh ashr which can be happy or praised everyone theyel you'll get rewarded twice all shabas is is twice there's two uh Brads this too everything everything is doubled shabas is doubled sh everything is doubled when it comes to shabas yeah to everybody who keeps it he who dwells in the darkness if you keep it he will give you a reward or give you a Naka an inheritance in the mountain and in the valley the valley has the advantage that it's low down it's not hard to plow the mountain has the advantage that you can grow things on five sides on all four sides and on the top Rashi explains so you'll get in the mountain and in the Valley now the gamar says that the you know when it came to the to the GS you know people want to make sure they got mountains and valleys each one has an advantage should Shine On You this rest and this inheritance like the sun everyone who keeps the shabas from being profaned um you will get the love of in your part and if you fulfill your obligations of shabas again be Happ you'll be praised pleased that you gave this present to this this is the end of the day the only thing we can give to is we accept upon ourselves he has everything but because he gave us free will the only thing he doesn't have is US serving [Music] him we spoke about this the last time is a thing where you desire the thing itself to is called is called day of that's what God Called It and uh if we protect it and keep it we'll again be happy praise the if we keep it perfectly you'll get a crown uh uh on on your head yeah the uh the rock of forever will make his his Spirit rest on you it's very interesting you get a crown because that is how the gar explains with the crowns on their heads right remember the shabas to make it holy and this will put the crown thear on your head and so you will give to a person happiness and pleasure all these things you'll get the The shabus Queen Is Holy BR Rest In Your Homes BR comes from shabas that is the source of all yeah the story with the where uh this uh fellow his son was driving his wagon into chabas he wasn't careful to stop at chabas Friday night he was still driving his wagon so when the you know made a stop in their Town everybody was coming to get bras so they wanted to tell the not to give this guy a br unless he told his son to stop driving his Wagon on chabus but they couldn't tell him because by that point was hard of hearing they would have to say it loud and he would be embarrassed so so the guy comes to the to get a and he says what do you what do you want from me like we say in all BR comes from shabas and if shabas isn't happy because your son drives his wagon and your daughter brushes her hair with a comb so how can I give you a br he says I'm going to go I'm going to speak to them I'm going to be shabas he says okay then I can give you a br everyone said no one know know how he knew about the the daughter with the comb that nobody knew about yeah sikim so it's the source of all if you keep shabas the br will come into your home that of course is based in the PK don't do any in all of your dwellings there it is at the end again sons and daughters which is what we said everybody has to keep this is the most honored of the days because on this day the rock of all the world God rested he chose this day because he rested that's the theme uh six days do you work on the seventh day is for Hashem on shabas didn't do because he finished everything in six days so what what it's telling us is this why because otherwise you'll never know it's shabas do work on six days so that on chabas it'll be clear that you're stopping because hasem rested mes it is the first day of all of the holy days if you take a look in Paras emor when it lists all of the Yum to First it mentions chabas this is the first shab shabas KES shabas is a special day of shabas it's the highest level chabas um yam which is called shab is only you get the death penalty and that's why the gar Milla says you get six alyas on Yer but you get seven on chabas it's higher that's why we make Kish on wine and we make h on two loaves of bread the double Miracle eat fat foods and drink sweet wines key now it doesn't have to be high in cholesterol when it says fatty foods it means you know rich foods good good foods right it talks about um you know the fat of the grain so kind of good fatty grain because hem gives reward to all those who cling to him clothing to wear and bread according to your measure and Meat and Fish and every delicious thing don't lack anything that of course is from benching eat and be full and then bless hasem because he chose you from all of the people and shabas is that special o between us and N Jews not allowed to keep it's only for us the heavens tell his glory and you can see his fill the Earth [Music] um everything is made from his hand he is the rock whose acts are perfect and therefore we recognize the world that Hashem created in six days rested on the seventh and so we as a testimony to God's creation do that as well SH now this is a very interesting uh I have a whole sheer on this you could probably find it on t any time the day of shabas never forget it should be remembered like a Corbin like the sweet smell of a Corbin the Yona which was sent out by uh Noah to see if he could find a dry land to rest upon it was on chabas and the people ask how do you know that that was on chabas so first out that says he waited over again seven days so Vice do it's talking about seven days which is shabas and he sends the bird out and he waits and the bird comes back and um it says by Nightfall with a branch in its mouth CU it waited till shabas was over to pick the branch and it's brought down to It's a Sign you can see and then when he never came back and he found manah that was on shabas 2 yeah so he found manah and there everybody who is weak will get strength from chabas those who have faith honor the days fathers and son it was carved into theem will strengthen you now we talk about um M and it's interesting that we go from the Y of Noah to we came in one BR we all said which of course we also accepted chabas those who are tired God should give them strength and again another reference to um to Har Hashem spoke on the mountain of Mo again that would tie in with sweet smelling he said both Z and Sh at the same time finish everything beforehand strengthen yourself to keep shabas G yourself uh to keep the shabas now here's the last paragraph and the nation that is now lost like uh wandering sheep should remember hasem remember your confident and your oath even though we've wandered and we're so far away don't remember how you promised not to hurt us not to anything happen like you swore to Noah that you would never bring another flood so you'll notice the two major themes here in addition to shabas is the Mable and and the connection is where when the Torah was being given the nations of the world came to Bam as is discussed in uh the to the world is returning there's going to be another mble and the world is going to be destroyed and only Hashem will exist and B him no Hashem promised it wouldn't happen what you sense as a mble is Hashem giving the Torah owes and they said oh good good luck to them because just like the mble changed the entire world forever so did the Torah and therefore when you have an in the world that is as much of a for the nations of the world because we speak the truth and they have to work so hard to cancel us out and the same effect that the Mable had that's the effect that the mat toyra had to the world and that's why one of the names for har is har from ofb right we keep hashem's tah Hashem Will Keep Us it'll be a sign shabas is a sign between me and Hashem you can't do any of your normal things you can't talk business or any of your needs you can't talk business and politics just learn and become smart in chabas I will always find rest for my soul shabas gives you a rest it's a spiritual date that regenerates you um the first generation that got the toyra we gave chabas m a Wonder all the way to creation of the world when I said Rashi says at the creation of The World God said that's going to be a reference to the double portion of M that will fall on Friday and none will fall on chabas the BR is on Friday and the kadha is on chabas that is how we know chabas is built in the creation right from the beginning of creation the first generation and we should always have this double that Shas brings he wrote down for his his uh his nobleman his assistants this [Music] is that the in the B MDES would be set up on chabas which makes sense because since chabas is the source of all they would take the him which represented the of for the food and for all of their needs yeah that's why because the eating on shabas ises like the therefore you cannot fast on chabas except for y it's an HED day of pleasure boss of a dog yeah bread wine meat fish all the good things you have to be happy you're not allowed to mourn on shabas even a mourner is not allowed to mourn on chabas anyone who does on this day and it's will be so clean your heart be honest yeah your heart should be bis as a as a cleaning agent make your heart wash your heart and the four times the four of all right keep shabas so that you will is like a to be uh to be nursed like a baby be fill from the light of my BR yeah will come and they will be led and I'll give them all of the pleasures shabas shabas is for God dra is freedom everybody goes free um so from all work we go free and I will give you my and it will be one after another after another literally it means a woman to her sister but it means connection one connection to another will be revealed on this day of Happiness big wear linen clothing with uh with Rich dyed Crimson wool M Kai and think of the of the uh the sages yeah quickly prepare the meal like Esther commanded right um when when AES found out that um morai was the one responsible for saving his life he tells uh he tells um Hammon quickly quickly hurry and uh take um lead him on the when Esther comes and says to I have a request he says what I want to make a suit and I want you and hamon to come and they say quickly bring hamon and medish tells us but most people know it from the perm tape that after they poured the the uh bucket of Filth on his head when he was leading morai they rushed him to come to the suda you know even though he didn't have a chance to wash up and change yeah quickly like es commanded to make the preparations and uh don't worry what you're spending got to work out the to buy food and have left over you understand you you you the way you prepare for shabas is not the way you prepare for anything else when I was a kid you know so I would get a brown paper bag or more likely back then I get a lunchbox metal lunch box with the who knows what on the outside and um you know so you'd get a tuna fish sandwich on White Bread a Hawaiian Punch uh maybe an apple and a bag of chips that's a great lunch but if someone comes over for shabas lunch and you give them like a tuna fish sandwich with a Hawaiian Punch and apple on a bag of chips they're not going to be so impressed maybe they will depends on the age group I guess but um shabas you make all kinds of fancy things remember we had these two girls from the very Li they used to come to us very often on Friday night but they never came shabas day so I said to them once why don't you ever come shabas day he goes everyone knows you go to the good Cooks on Friday night because anyone can make a chant you know CH and a cou because but the the the really fancy food is on Friday night don't you want to come so we make fancy food Mak enough to have leftovers you ever go some place where there's like six people and there are six pieces of chicken I was one of six boys my mother always cooked for an army didn't matter you know even after there was nobody at home you know I was I told I was coming you know I'd be there for shabas you know I was coming to visit so my brother would tell me don't tell Mom you're coming just show up because then she has less time to prepare because if she knows you're coming she'll make a brisket and a turkey it's just you know there's no way no way the two of you are going to finish all that you know so uh but you make enough to have leftovers shabas leftover shabas leftovers a concept here it is trust in me don't worry I'll take care of you your shabas expenses are not into whatever is given to you how much money you're gonna have so have byy fine wine for shabas don't worry the Redemption will come if you keep shabas be my chosen people um so uh stay and we will pass through to uh to this GAA and then you will live before me live before me and be filled with uh with all the great things I'll give you strengthen yourself City to Hashem yeah speaking of course about J and bring us to with happiness rejoicing and then we will sing to you happily us the the and then we will get pleasure from Hashem okay one more we're going to do I'm not going to do Shas I'm Gonna Save shalas for another time I want to talk about shalas and the mirors that we do on shalas and it's all part and parcel of what we're trying to accomplish dra draw is of course freedom for the Son and the daughter and uh give them like the like a apple of my eye the uh wonderful things the the the the the glory will never stop because we rest on chabas [Music] seek out the bikash and the which is the front chamber and sign of salvation of of redemption make for us a precious branch in uh in the vineyard me and uh we will uh DAV and praise trample uhra the city in modern day Iraq um and the medish says that's where the final battle will be the Malik of asov will run to batra before mash comes he will be destroyed and also B which of course was the first nation to destroy the B mikdash and every Exile we're going in is just a continuation of B and there's a gamarra that indicates that b represents yesel and the power that the Arabs have over us so um overpower B the go against our enemies with anger and and uh and Fury yeah listen to our voice when we cry out elim and out in the desert the mountainous deserts you will plant all these beautiful flowers and plants those who are careful you will give uh all of the Peace like a flowing river um squeeze them the enemies God of Vengeance with the with a strong heart the M get get their heart and their punishment yeah so give us that strength instead and open up our mouth and fill it with songs of praise your will be to our to give us to our life and it'll be a crown we will protect your holy mitzvah shabas and keep your holy shabas right shabas sh like I say when I was in yiva we didn't do it so I'm going to skip it now not that it's not significant but uh those are the um Zas uh of the day and uh it's interesting there are some people I know who are better at singing zus at night and some people who are better at singing Mir during the day each one of them has their own character to them because as we mentioned when we talked about Theus uh the night we stress the fact that created the world and in the day we stress the fact that gave us the Torah and we're keeping it because of the Torah and we go back to that uh to that commandment and it's you know on us and so the miror each one of them that have been chosen to be sung during this day are uh unique to this now um I want to do uh a uh a show with um one of my sari friends who will explain the sari ziros um which they have different ziros than the ashkenazic tradition KES shabas I think is the overlap and uh we'll have that coming up and I hope to bring in somebody where we'll focus on the tunes because the Tunes in themselves are and uh lend a certain power to the words and that's it for now until next time you can find out more about the show by going to my website rowski dcom you can leave a comment you can sign up for an online share you can sponsor an 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