Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #147: Shabbos and Teshuva

good Arab Shabbos we are here to turn Friday into Arab Shabbos we are back after a little bit of a break and it's good to be together again and I hope in the meantime Everybody Was preparing it not experiencing Friday but turning Friday into Arab Shabbos I want to say our generous sponsors many for a fisherman that's Christopher put a fatal in memory of Jonathan sacks of yaakov and David Arya thank you for your generosity continuing to support this series that is the siren and it means it is time to get ready for Shabbos like to say last hour of Shabbos I was in you with my children and you shalayan for minutes even leading up to the siren that announces time to light the candles where we were the neighborhood we were in Ramada school there were speakers that were playing zimiros that sit outside on the porch and listen to those speakers that were playing zamiros and hear that siren as the sun was setting you feel the kadusha the sanctity of Shabbos that literally descends on the holiest city the holiest day of the week and awakens the holy spark the holy spirit that is inside each and everyone has the power of Shabbos that nishama that is on fire it is expanded is more plugged in it is more present it is a bigger dreamer and believer in who we are and who we can be in no time do we need Shabbos more than in the month of elul that we are getting ready to prepare ourselves cleanse ourselves transform ourselves for the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is the day of chuva BOCES and Shabbos of the same letters it's a day we have the capacity to feel a sense of shame to feel remorse to feel regret to plan and dream and Aspire and have ambition for a better week that is ahead we don't only do rahitas we don't just wash physically ourselves on Arab Shabbos but we watch and we cleanse and we transform ourselves when we get ready so Shabbos is a day we take stock and we evaluate Shabbos the day we reflect on the week that was but equally that we plan and dream for the week that will be Shabbos we disconnect in order to connect back to ourselves to take inventory and Shamus is the day that we calibrate rape ourselves so it's a day that is highly informed by a sense of chuva and elul Shabbos is even more important than ever the posix says on the day of your joy and khazal our rabbis in the safri teach us hem is referring to Shabbos even though Shabbos we think of as a day of one egg and it's different than yantev in that sense but there is a simcha Shabbos you should be happy and relieved and calm cool and collect Shabbos is a day to be excited and that's what we say in my shop is called be happy enjoy Sanchez as those who receive the Torah just like the Torah gave us on the shama the Torah gave us this tool to navigate Our Lives when we receive the Torah we found our purpose of our mission and our Essence Shabbos we have the ability to find the joy and the happiness equal like the day we receive the Torah we have to be happy we have to be happy because says that Hashem told Moshe I have a gift for you my Tana Tova I have a wonderful gift for you but basic and as I in my Treasury and shambus is its name and I want to give it to you the Jewish Nation go and inform them that's what Hashem and Moshe came and told us is a great gift and it's not available forward to it and see it as defining time with Hashem time with our family and guests and time with ourselves last Thursday night in yerushalaim I went to the home of a great teacher a great source of inspiration Rabbi maheshle to the mockless home famous foreign guests a Shabbos if you ever made a yunt of meal a pace Thanksgiving dinner out of 20 people and you think it was a lot they have 200 to 300 every single Shabbos cost thirty six hundred dollars by the way a Shabbos and they pay and are in debt for it and we can all help go to marcos.org and do your part but it's amazing I went Thursday night my family and I helped peel some carrots and potatoes and prepare a little bit and with the joy so ramacha's offered us we were talking about Thursday nights and he said his family is a minute there's a minute that many have not to eat flashes on Thursday night Thursday night you don't eat meat because you are preparing for Shabbos Thursday night is a milk night not only because you're going to indulge in a lot of fleships over Shabbos so you might as well have milks it's not just a nutritional or dietary Rhythm or psycho but it's actually part of the way that we prepare for Shabbos we restrain ourselves we withdraw save your appetite for the fascia for the meat for Friday night for Shabbos and that will enhance and Elevate Shabbos it's part of the excitement of the symbol that we bring to Shabbos is that we go into Shabbos with an appetite so we don't eat fleshex Thursday night the Minogue is many have because you want to come into Shabbos with this appetite and I asked for my maholas what is it how do you run a Shabbos meal how do you host somebody guessing make them feel involved and he said the key is to show a love for Shabbos to show a passion for Shabbos to show that Shabbos is not a burden Shabbos is the ultimate pleasure Shabbos is incredible Hashem has given us this gift he's given us this incredible gift and we're capable of feeling a sense of simcha we say there's the laws of Shabbos the 39 categories of creative labor all the restrictions of muktsa there's all the technicalities in the minutia and the laws but there's the Shabbos that's the Shabbos that is the spiritual the singing and the excitement and the joy and the happiness and it takes work the the payoff the reward is great you know you go on a vacation and there are people who have no plans they find themselves on their vacation their days off they wake up every morning their family fight and go in circles and debate what should we do I don't know what to do we should do this I don't want to do that and therefore the end of the day comes you didn't even do anything that day your vacation ends and you wonder where it went and you can't even remember how you spent it and it didn't serve its purpose then there are the families that go into the vacation and they have an itinerary they have an agenda they have a plan they found things to plug into and to do they're able to meet the needs of their diverse family and they look back and they say yeah this day we did this the next day we did that the other day we did the other thing we put together a photo book of it and boy do we make the most of that vacation Shamus is a vacation the trials and travails and tribulations the burden of the to-do list the tasks the technology all that occupies us all Shabba all week Shabbos we get a break Shabbos we disconnect from but do we enter that day with an itinerary with a plan do we go into that vacation called Shabbos and say here's what I want to read here's what I want to learn here's what I want to sing his the story I want to tell here's the conversation the provocative question I want to ask here's who I want to host here's where I want to visit and see do we go in with an agenda and a plan do we honor the Shabbos by being prepared the Ariza rights inshallah when Shabbos comes it has to find it's ready it has to find us prepared and the way that we prepare says the hiligariza is we prepare for Shabbos in three ways we prepare Shabbos and our thought we meditate we reflect we lean in we're present the Deborah in our speech and by maisa the transition to Shamus is not abrupt we don't run in within 18 minutes we're not fighting to get the last things done but rather we come in we slowly enter and we Savor and already on our Shabbos to our mouth we're already tasting some of the tastes of Shabbos and it's calm and the shabba's music that's playing and we're looking into still the advertora we're looking and finding that story to tell we're coming to Shabbos in our thoughtfulness in our being present the Deborah the type of speech and things we're talking about already on Friday afternoon on air of Shabbos there is no Friday we're already no longer talking about work and business we're already beginning to lean into the language of Shabbos and then of course by myself of course physically there is preparing and physically there is getting ready and physically there is leaning into the beauty of of Shabbos Hashem rested and we took when we observe Shabbos properly we come in with that excitement and joy when we prepare and we create a distinction between the weak no fleshex on Thursday night because the weekday we're transitioning to get ready to be excited to preserve our appetite for the incredible incredible Shabbos it's great to be back together with everybody and I want to wish everybody wherever you are a holy shabba's happy Shabba is a healthy Shabbos turn what is left of this Friday into Arab Shabbos foreign [Music]