The Atmosphere that CHANGES Your Week | Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #249

I am trles. Oh y [music] [music] today is not Friday. Today Shabas and we're here to turn our Friday into Shabas. Generously sponsored by many of Fred in memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sax and in memory of Mendy's father's nama should have an aliyah. Today may look like Friday on your calendar but it's not. Today is of Shabas and we're here to turn our Friday into Shabas. This week's talks about Shabas six days we do our work on the seventh day we rest. Six days work, seventh day we rest so our ox and donkey can rest. Our slave and our stranger could be refreshed. We all have to rest and rejuvenate on Shabas. Not only is there benefit on Shabas, who doesn't need to catch up on sleep. And there are studies that show that if you're sleepd deprived all week long, if you make up for it on Shabas, it does count. You can compensate by sleeping well over Shabas over the weekend. The studies show you can make up for it. And who doesn't need to who doesn't need to do better? Six days we work the seventh we rest. I saw a beautiful beautiful idea by the holy of and he says the following there's a zohor the zor says we know shabas is the mur shabas is the source of all blessing in our life we think the blessing in our life comes the work we do all week it's not true the blessing in our life comes from shabas the attitude the experience the energy of shabas it's determined on that shabas what we're going to have on the six days that follow all the of the six days depend on the seventh day. The more we lean in, the more we sing, the more we laugh, the more we love, the more we learn, the more we are experiencing Shabas. The more we count down for Shabas to begin, never counting down for Shabas to end. The more we experience Shabas, then the more that we derive that we draw from that Shabas, the six days they draw the blessing from that seventh day Shabas. That's a says that's six days you do your work. No. Duh. All your success in the six days and that's six days you do your work. But will they be successful? Those six days of work, will they bring blessing? Those six days of work, will they make it rain? All that depends on Shabas. Shabas is the six days draw their success from Shabas. Six days do work, but will the work yields results? That depends on did you rest on the seventh day? Some people think that, you know, they still talk business, they still talk shop, they're still networking, moving, shaking shabas, they can't shut down, they can't turn off, they're talking work. What they don't realize is by dishonoring Shabas, not only is the work they're doing on Shabas not going to yield more success, but actually by dishonoring Shabas, it takes away the possibility of the brah the other six days. Since the six days draw from Shabas, you have to honor the Shabas in order to be able to get the success of those six days. But even more than that and with this I want to share with you a beautiful beautiful thought from the mayor says so that your ox and your donkey they can rest and the simple understanding of the p means that you need to rest and your animals and your kum everything you own everything that's yours it too needs to rest but the of says something different he says here the Torah is describing not the goal of shabas but rather the metric by which the quality of our shabas is measured we're to make Shabas so special that the entire atmosphere transforms that it's a fundamentally different environment all around us. So when we as a community, when we as families, when we as individuals, when we observe Shabas properly, we don't just abstain from forbidden work, but we use our time for Torah, for ding, for singing, for laughing, for loving, then we've impacted the whole surroundings that even the animal will feel the difference. So that even your ox and donkey will say, "Hey, today shabas, I smell [snorts] the chant. I smell the chicken soup. I hear this mirros." Even your animal, your cats and your dogs will say, "This isn't the other six days of the week. there's something different going on doesn't just mean shabas they should rest. It means that the shabas atmosphere should be so much so that even an animal can identify that there's something different that's going on. That's how we're going to turn this Friday into Shabas into Arab Shabas. That's the homework. Let's draw the braha of the whole week from Shabas. And then by drawing that braha, you can donate to the global campaign. We're 75% of the way there. We're almost done. We need your help. We want more people turning Friday into Ara of Shabas. more people living with amuna, more people living with partial perspectives, more people sitter snippets changing their diabet. But we need your help. So if you haven't yet given, bronline.org/global brsonline.org/global. Please, if you can match what you've done previously, if you can give for a first time, we need your help. The Shabas, stay happy, stay healthy, and stay holy. Should be a Shabas in which our animals, our cats, our dogs, our hamsters, our goldfish, all know this is a different environment. Something different is going on. And when we create a shabas with that environment, the six days will flow with broad. [music] >> [music and singing]