Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #142: Ingest the Challah

get ready count down get excited get pumped what's your Friday at the Arab Shabbos is generously sponsored by different Amendment before a fisherman is thank you for your generosity here comes that siren it is time for us to get ready celebrate and welcome the holy the Beautiful the exciting the sacred the incredible Shabbos our Parsha this week contains within the mitzvahala and since it's the primary time that we take kala eat Shabbos let's spend a few minutes talking about this wonderful Mitzvah of in fact it's a question that's brought down and asked every time you even bake cookies or ragalog every time that you put dough together for any type of bread or hamotzi you have to separate you have to take or mizonos you have to take khala so Hal is a Mitzvah of separating from the dough giving it to the coin in ancient times today we burn it and dispose of it but why do we use that same word to describe the bread Allah that we have on Shabbos so many answers have been brought down included among them that is the primary time or reason people take colors in the context of khala but there are deeper reasons as well so our parasha includes when you come to eat the bread of the land you have to give rumor you have to give a gift you have to suffer it apart a person has to give races the first of your doe tarim you have to give as a truma you elevate you lift you separate you give it as truma and it's many others wonder why what is the connection in our Powershell what is whether you're listening to this commensurate with this partial or not the message remains always relevant what is the connection between the Mitzvah and the story of the Moroccan the spies who investigated the land and came back and gave a negative report listen to what the throttle Moore says go wrong they were driven by their ego they were driven by their arrogance they were driven by a sense of overconfidence and what is do what is pesos we don't allow the dough to rise because the Risen doe the the the Comets represents the leaven in the dough the Sahara ego our ego gets inflated our sense of self gets inflated so or should be Isa is that arrogance is so therefore the mitzvahala comes and says before you eat something that is inflated that has yeast that has risen that has grown separated off a piece remember that we're dedicating and devoting it all to Hashem is the antidote to the Mirage whenever we make decisions or have judgment whenever our ego or anger gets in the way whenever we're tempted to doubt with uncertainty or question Hashem separates separate off a piece and remember to give that truma remember to designate to Hashem remember to overcome remember to respond to that don't indulge don't give in to that ego or that arrogance friends as we get ready for Shabbos and there's so much to do and prepare and time is running out even with this long summer Friday don't indulge that yatar don't give in to the social Issa prepare khala have the house be filled with the smell of khala or go purchase the khala but remember the mitzvahala separate off a piece and give a peace gives a different answer says the same shame Ishmael something very beautiful he says normally a farmer is ready to harvest and in the field separates Uma and Maestra but here all the ingredients of khala have already been harvested because what is khala you take flour flour is made up of many small tiny minuscule negligible barely discernible grains of hour and you add water and you take the flour these barely discernible grains of flour and you add the water and you knead them together and what do you have you have a dough and the dough is what unites the dough is what binds the dough is what buns all the disparate all the separate all the little grains of flour so true nothing new has been harvested unlike trumus and mice rice which are given on that which is taken from the field though you go to the cabinet khala is taken and separated you went to the pantry you go to the cabin you take some flour and when you meet the requisite amount of flour and you introduce the element of water or liquid then you make it a goose you make it one one entity the kashem is when you separate off to the coin Israel you are correcting and we are repairing from the lack of actus in claw Israel says that's the Mitzvah you don't have to create or invent or build something new in order to find Holiness you just have to bring together things that exist the novelty and the original reality and the creativity is taking things that were apart and separated and uniting them that's what a doe does a dough is Unity it's undivided when we take off a piece and we give that khala we are remembering our sense of of unity and says so division the moragon created and planted machlokis the Mirage divided a people and the answer and the antidote is khala to bring the small particles together to need them together to unite them together and then to separate off a piece to make it holy and to make it elevated and when we sit down and make our hamoti tonight at the table and tomorrow when we eat we remember that khala is about is the antidote to repair the damage of division and of mahalokus of sowing divide Khal is about uniting HAL is about one so that's why shamashabas we come together we set aside our differences and Shabbos is a time of actus of seeing what we have in common of connecting many statements reinforce this idea that the mid brings great Brock into our homes we know we have the tradition Rashi quotes from that Rifka continued the tradition of Sarah bracha mitsuya biisa the blessing was found in her dough what does that mean she made a gurkhalachian needed it well it was direct it was baked just the right amount still doughy and gooey and delicious she sprinkled it with cinnamon or with everything spices what does it means that that Rifka followed the tradition of Sarah the braches it doesn't mean that Sarah's dough was large or cooked through evenly or had great cinnamon it means that her happy cheerful loving disposition whereas critical ingredients in the khala as the flower the water or the sugar what we're thinking what we're listening to what we're speaking how we're feeling it all goes into the khala that we make when we serve that khala particularly when we make it ourselves but even when we go buy it what are we talking about what are we thinking what are we listening to as we prepare it as we prepare it when someone's angry or bitter or divisive it can be tasted in the khaba we absorb that negativity we absorb those qualities we need more unity and less criticism and division when our family when our children consume that khala and we dip it in those delicious dips it's not only the ingredients and the taste that we can't get enough of but we are imbibing whatever went into it whatever we were thinking or feeling or listening to or saying so we have to be very very careful when we do it we have to be careful when we think that which is separated and taken elevated and gifted from the homeless colors like truma it's holy and call us that opportunity to engage that Holiness that Holiness at our tables and in our home so whether you're still making a holiday or baking challah today or buying challah today but the mentality the attitude the mindfulness that goes into the khala and the hamoti and the cutting of it and then dipping it into the salt it all is the experience of the Holy Shabbos so as we turn our Friday into Shabbos let's think about the Mitzvah the Mitzvah of unity the antidote to the Mirage that we take these little particles of flour we bring them together and we Elevate them by giving the khala and it doesn't have to be something new the newness is the commitment to the unity that we have how can our table reflect Unity how can we invite the people who are different than us how can we focus on conversation stations that will unite us not divide us that will make us feel closer not further away and further apart how can we incorporate the theme of khala so the blessing can be found in our dough the blessing can be found in the blessing can be found in our homes wishing everyone a happy a holy a beautiful and a helica incredible shot everybody challenge everybody go turn your Friday into area