Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #133 - Make Your Lachem Kodesh

everyone it is Friday and we are turning it into Eric Shabbos a big thank you to our series sponsor many of our fisherman species is also sponsored a memory of Israel marvelous by his children grandchildren and great-grandchildren our dear friend Israel we miss him by Mark and Joanna Davis in memory of Joanna's grandmother Bessie snow pessel is the 28th of Adar thank you so much for your generosity and lastly We are continuing we are closing out Hashem we are at 146 000 4 000 short of our goal for our bias Global campaign almost a thousand people around the world have expressed their gratitude for what they watch listen to and read the tremendous content that comes out of the book wrote on synagogue if you've not yet done it please take a moment brsonline.orb prsonline.org slash Global and take a moment and give so that we can close out this campaign I want to learn with you today a little piece by the Naseebo show them on our Parsha but whether you're listening to this precious vayaka bakude or any other time of the year the message is equally relevant because it's about Shabbos we're turning our Friday into Arab shops we're getting ready for this gift to immerse ourselves in this place in this refuge in this protection of Shabbos six days do work and on the seventh day it should be holy in our parishes year this week you can go back still and listen in our partnership this week we spoke about the fact that the native points out you have to make Shabbos subjective not only do we have the objective observance the 39 categories of creative labor were all bound by but there's a subjectivity to it we have to yell make it holy for you what are you going to do you get an extra learning extra davening extras miros extra stories extra reading extra sleep extra interaction extra time go for a walk how will it subjectively be holy what's your family's minute what's your family's relationship the Shabbos what's your family Shabbos practice how is it significant and holy to you seventh day will be holy count six days in the seventh day of Shabbos the seventh day is Holy what do you mean it's holy for you it says the greater Lady of it's reminiscent of the rabbi's teacher when it comes to yantiff teaches when it comes to yantef half the day we devote we dedicate to God we learn we Dove and it's about God and half the day is for us and the message is kodash listen to this we're going from Friday into into Shabbos it means that in Shabbos not only are they holy activities holy normally when you're in school and dominating and learning is it holy but the mundane activities are awesome is so it's not just the holy activities the religious activities the spiritual activities that are holy seeming mundane activities so when you sleep all week long it's just a secular mundane profane simple Act of sleeping but when you sleep on Shabbos it's a holy sleep eating all week long is just eating but eating on Shabbos is Holy eating and that's why the seventh day your should be kodesh not only your Holiness is Holy but your profane is Holy like Shabbos is the source of Holiness God bless the seventh day and he Sanctified it he embedded he imbued it with Holiness when we draw from when we plug in when we charge our Holiness battery for the whole week it comes from Shabbos we disconnect from technology we disconnect from distractions we disconnect from images and entertainment we disconnect from to-do lists and tasks and we plug into Holiness Holiness is connecting relating caring about others Holiness is nourishing our nashama over our goof and Holiness is not only in the religious unrighteous activities Holiness is when we turn the lachem into kodesh and we can only do that or we do that best and most on Shabbos why because Shabbos is oh so God Sanctified Shabbos the source of it's the source of Allah and the Holiness imbues it sanctifies to make it holy the vikas to attach ourselves to God and that's why I call them we cleanse we become a new person we can reset so you know you're having a problem with your phone your iPad your laptop I once actually had this problem on a plane where the pilot couldn't figure out why a light was on and finally he just restarted the plane he rebooted the plane and the light turned off the light went away so you have a problem you have a virus you have a glitch you have a problem in a device sometimes all it needs is to reboot you don't need to hire an I.T person to know turn it off and turn it back on again that's the first thing it works a huge percentage of the time it fixes the problem it resets the problem it purges the problem Shabbos is the rebooting in the life of a yid whatever problems whatever viruses whatever glitches we had that week whatever tension whatever conflict whatever failure whatever disappointment whatever resentment we'd like to shop as candles we may recite that shop as kiddish a year did you enter Shabbos we reboot we reset we get rid of and we start again and we start again what an opportunity what an opportunity what an invitation it is a return to the Holiness so first Hashem made a Kurdish Oso God Sanctified the seventh that he made it holy he gave it that charge that energy the greatest charging station and then we plug in so if you have an electric car and you know you're driving and you run out you can't find the gas station you have to plug in so we drive our electric spiritual car all week long and when we are depleted when we're running out we charge it how do we charge it by plugging in when on Shabbos so he Sanctified it and now for us our eating and our sleeping and our mundane conversations but there is no mundane there is no normal or average there is no regular or secular so we turn Friday into Earth Shabbos when we let it go let it go when you light candles Let It Go when you go to show for me Let It Go and you say kiddish Let It Go yeah take the eating and sleeping and singing and talking and reading and resting and take the kodesh make it holy make it sacred elevate it says there cannot be a fire burning in any of our Dwelling Places on Shabbos there's no anger or there's no bitterness there's no tension there's no resentment there's no high volume there has to be peace and serenity and quiet but that takes effort and mindfulness takes concentration and that's what today's all about as the clock is ticking and as the siren soon is going to sound welcoming and heralding the next Shabbos let us plug in let us recharge let us reboot let us restore let us retain that sense of kadusha of Holiness of Peace of Tranquility to elevate even the mundane and to make it sacred let us draw from that is Shabbos let us turn this Friday into air of Shabbos [Applause] no better way to go into Shabbos they're given the global campaign the game already give again if you haven't given give if you're gaining but give something take your material possessions your money make it Kurdish by sharing brsonline.org Global stay happy stay healthy stay holy have a great Shabbos