Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #129 - The Healing of Shabbos

a good nerve shop is it is not Friday it is Shabbos and we are turning our Friday into Arab Shabbos but I think our generous sponsors Mendy and Sephora Fishman today's turn Friday into Arab Shabbos is also sponsored for shlima of Schneider zamana calling Ben Ali should have a complete speedy and painless refua shlema here comes that siren as we turn our Friday from a Friday into an era of Shabbos and what a special air of Shabbos it is every Friday is a special air of Shabbos and we need Shabbos Shabbos Comfort Shabbos Chavez gives us Comfort Shabbos gives us strength Shabbos gives us peace Shabbos gives us Serenity Shabbos all the challenges and Troubles of the week are waiting there for us but Shabbos is an escape Shabbos is a taste of that world to come Shabbos we're able to find dig deep and experience that strength it gives us that healing that we so desperately need and after the coin of that's what he says on our Parsha our Parsha tells us that if one person is fighting and injures another raksh if toyitain verapo yarape Rock shifter we pay for the loss of work the fact that the person was off from work while they were injured one has to compensate and the medical bills but the helicopter very slim uh the Hillary damskirts says no shiftoyutain doesn't mean shifto loss of work shabato give someone a Shabbos verapo yarape you want healing you want strength you want therapy you want support Shabbos has a healing power and rock rock if that's all you have it's just Shabbos the problem is not resolved the person is not brought back the loss is not recovered whatever challenge there is will be there remaining rock all you have is Shabbos a the healing power the incredible healing power of Shabbos that when we immerse ourselves in Shabbos when we experience Shabbos when we are transported by Shabbos and we're elevated by Shabbos Shabbos is this cocoon Chavez is his place of Refuge Shabbos is this safe space such a popular language that everyone's looking for a safe space so in a world which is so unsafe for us spiritually emotionally physically mentally rakshiften give us a shambas just give us Shabbos and let Shabbos heal let it heal for us to sit with family let it heal for us by singing and Diving let it heal for us by learning let it heal for us by sleeping and resting and reading let Shabbos have its healing powers let Shabbos be able to provide the healing that we so desperately need to rock shift toyutain just give Shabbos and it has the ability to heal we turn that back he's been teaching us that when is not Friday or if Shabbos is whenever Shabbos is in fact on mote Shabbos when Shabbos ends we already begin the countdown for the next Shabbos and last week we spoke about the basam in Abdullah Abdullah being MAV deal extracting take out the light distinguishing being mild deal between Shabbos and the six days and the seventh day of Shabbos the bisam teach us externally the exterior The Superficial the material the Besame are just leaves the shaman are just myrtles and yet if we smell we know there's a panemius there's a depth there's a fragrance there's something else inside you can't see it you can't measure it but there's a fragrance that we experience and that's a reminder that the week that we're going to have we take out of shabba's the reminder that we may operate in a physical material world but we should not believe the superficial is all there is there is something of depth there is panemius to it and then we move over to The Nair to the candle but we don't just make a broccoli we take our fingers and we bend them towards us and we look at our nails contrasted to the flesh but with our fingers directed towards us and with the thumb bent underneath the four fingers that's the way the Ariza specifically had her quotes is rebe De Ariza Russia is take his right hand and bend the four fingers into the into the palm of the right hand and the right thumb was very buried was covered underneath it we hold it up opposite the person making the Brach you hold the four fingers over the thumb bent inward towards us why that way you don't hold them out some people hold them out again follow your but the rochan Vitale quotes the Ariza was minute was not to hold them out and look at them but to bend them towards you and look at them towards you why specifically in this way why specifically in this manner so he writes or Victor Meyer the candle the fire represents divine presence Hashem is the light of the universe Hashem is the fire and the energy of the universe four fingers are not the the four different categories of the Angels the angels are agents and stewards and messengers of Hashem they represent the physical Universe the physical world in which we operate in which we have to accomplish hashem's goals we take the four fingers which represent again like the basam The Superficial the material the external and we bend it towards us towards the light of the candle why because the light is Hashem the light is the light of shrina and we are bending the physical Material World towards the light towards the screen lahoras the main thing the main purpose Central core to our whole lives is Hashem feeling him talking to him surrendering to him and serving him so the gritsonos the four fingers the fingernails versus the flesh all of that we are directing towards the light of Hashem so we bend them we don't hold them straight we bend them over they're bending towards the light and they're all tacos their whole goal is to reveal the hidden therefore makes the blessing blessed are you Hashem the creator of fire yes person should focus and should feel should become on fire in their heart to think I could be on fire I'm not just making a bracha on this fire I'm looking at this fire and I'm igniting myself on fire I'm igniting my soul on fire I'm connecting to this fire to ignite myself I want to be on fire I'm filled with drive and ambition I'm filled with a fire that's burning in my belly I want to accomplish and Achieve I want to be close to Hashem I want to serve him I want to engage the entire physical world these next six days of creation these next these six days where I will conquer the world and create I want to do all of that not to serve me but to serve him so I bend or kofuffrina thus the light of the of the havedella candle is the light of the srin of the divine presence and the Odes Hashem is the only way that I can succeed properly is by bending making everything surrender and submit to Hashem and so that's what we call is the fire the fire in me will burn not from money and not for pleasure and not for sports and not for stocks nothing wrong with enjoying all of that but the real fire my real drive my real ambition my real fire is to connect to uashm so so far in Abdullah we talked about the summon we've talked about the The Nair but all this is to direct and guide our week to take from Shabbos to have the most amazing week that will culminate in the next Shabbos they're already beginning on mote Shabbos is air of Shabbos of the next week so I give us Allah we need a Shabbos be give us the Shabbos give us the strength we need the Chavez provide the healing that we need and the Mirch hashems for the happy and a healthy and a holy holy Shabbos Good Shabbos everyone uh yeah [Music]