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Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #151
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In today's episode, Rabbi Efrem Goldberg discusses the significance of turning Fridays into Erev Shabbos, especially as we begin a new year. The Rabbi emphasizes the idea that every day in the week between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur corresponds to a day in the upcoming year, offering a chance for reflection and improvement. He urges us to embrace Fridays fully, to prepare for Shabbos in advance, and to make Shabbos our spiritual home. 🔗 Topics Covered: Importance of Erev Shabbos The first Erev Shabbos of the new year Making up for past Fridays Embracing the day fully Preparing for Shabbos Making Shabbos our home
Categories:Torah/Yamim Tovim
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good Arab Chavez today is not Friday
today's era shabba's the first air of
Shabbos of the new year and I'm so
excited to be together with you to turn
our Friday into Arab Shadows a big thank
you to mending support Fishman dear
friends and generous sponsors
and as I mentioned this is our very
first turn Friday into our Shabbos of
the new year as this is Eric Shabbos
Shiva the first Shabbos of the new year
and it's very significant the first job
is of the new year because as we share
every year is brought down from many
tsadiqam that there are exactly seven
days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur and that's not a coincidence at
all those seven days correspond with of
course the seven days of the week and
each day of a series
corresponds with that day of the whole
year so Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
and so on each day when we Embrace that
day and lean into that day and live
fully that day we can make up for we can
atone for we can repair however we fail
to live in the entire last year which
means today on air of Shabbos this
Friday every Friday we observe there's a
Friday rather than a number of Shabbos
every Friday that we procrastinated and
delay we ran late and we rushed into
Shabbos every Friday that we utilized
every minute of our 18 minutes every
Friday that we didn't play music and
have a a dance and that we didn't Skip
and that we weren't excited we didn't
have advantoro we didn't have a story we
didn't come with zumirus the shabba's
table this weekend we could fix it all
can repair it all these are the Isme
chuba this is that day this Friday
corresponds with every Friday of the
Year previous and now when we turn our
Friday into Arab Shabbos it's kiilu
retroactively we've turned them all into
Arab Shabbos so this is the day lean in
take advantage make the most of it plan
your day let Shabbos find you waiting
not the opposite be ready be prepared
light candles early come to school early
learn a little something before enjoy
some wonderful here in BRS our
amazingness Oxford minion is inviting
everyone to a new practice to our mouth
15 minutes before a little something to
eat some Shabbos Food bring Shabbos the
taste of Shabbos the flavor of Shabbos
the aroma of Shabbos bring it in early
with all the value of Tom now as we've
studied and learned about in the past
this is our chance to really embrace the
Friday fully and to turn our Friday into
a beautiful and a real
pair of shops I want to share with you a
teaching I saw
and he says the following very
interesting idea
has the ability to lift and to exalt and
to enrich and to empower all the weak
days
and the weekdays if we don't live
properly and we don't live longingly and
we don't live anticipating Shabbos they
can bring down Shabbos if we didn't shop
and we didn't cook we didn't prepare we
didn't set the table we're not ready if
we're rushing in or we're filled with
Rage or anxiety or Envy or jealousy or
arrogance those are all antithetical
those all push away Shabbos and repel it
away
our entire week has to be oriented
around Shabbos we look forward to we
long for Shabbos is the makor bracha
it's the source of
and Shabbos is the tacos lamasa
Mauritius Shabbos is the reason that we
do it all it's why we work it's why we
put in the time it's why we do
everything that we do the talkless the
payoff is Shabbos as the Zora Carter
says
I never heard this before listen to this
we make Shabbos
there's the part of Shabbos that happens
to us that when the Sun goes down on
Friday we're Bound By The 39 categories
of creative labor there's the passive
part of Shabbos that we can't violate
Shabbos happens to us but then there's
also lassos
there's also the part of Shabbos that we
make that we create that we do the
active proactive part but there's
another interpretation the zohara cutter
says
don't read it
Shabbos is our home address Shabbos is
ardira it's our dwelling place it's our
home address
and just like every time you go on an
Excursion you go on a tool you leave
your house you go out for dinner you go
on a business trip you go out to work
you go out to school but all throughout
that day you know in the back of your
mind if not explicitly implicitly you
know eventually I'm going home I have a
place that I live that I've unpacked
that I identify with my life it's where
I get my mail it's my ZIP code it's my
address that's where I live so however
where do we live do you live in the
weekday or do you live in Shabbos do you
live in Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday Friday or do you live in the
Holy Shabbos do you live in work at the
gym at the supermarket in the boardroom
in the operating room or do you live
around your Shabbos table where do we
live Le dorosos
because when you have adira right if you
go along the mirror you live in adira
Nadira near the Yeshiva adira means
where's your apartment where's your bed
where do you sleep where can I find you
where can I drop off your things where
can I deliver your mail what do you
identify as your home was your home base
kanu Shabbos
from the second we make Abdallah when we
make Abdullah we're getting in the car
and we're leaving home because we have
to you got to go to work you gotta go on
a drive you gotta run errands you may
even have to go on a vacation you may go
on a business trip so from the second we
make
we are out of our home we're on the road
doing important things we mean to be
there we want to be there we may even
enjoy being there however the whole time
that we're there what do we know I'm
gonna go home I belong at home I'm gonna
return home home is where I where I
belong
from the moment we make in seven days
I'm going back home how many days left
till I go back home the yamasham is
kotish and my feeling even when I'm on
vacation
family trip as much as I enjoy and of
course like everyone I enjoy but as much
as and while we enjoy there's also
something special to go home to sleep in
your own bed to operate out of your own
closet to be able to be back in your own
house there's something about being home
so for a yid Shabbos is home that's
natural state that's our home address
that's our identity that's who we are
that's how we want to live we want to
live with Shabbos we want to live with
all of our troubles and all of our to-do
lists and all of our tasks sitting up
there on the Shelf we'll come back down
after Shabbos but where I live is
where I live is the tacos of my
sebritious where I live is around my
Shabbos table singing his mirrors
telling the ray Torah telling stories
asking thought-provoking questions
connecting interpersonally hosting
guests and ensuring that everybody has a
place for Shabbos and for yantiff that's
where I live lying on the couch and
reading a magazine sitting at the table
and learning is safer playing a board
game with my family
on Shabbos that's where I live that's my
life that's where I live
I go out on the road it's a beautiful
Zoo
some turn Shabbos into your Dira turn
Shabbos into your address turn Shabbos
into your home into your home very days
if we do that if we make Shamus our
address our home our identity then all
week long we're looking to go home and
when the weekday ends we might have
enjoyed where we were but we're excited
and looking forward to going home so
what is the attitude this is the first
Shabbos of the year the first air of
Shabbos of the Year those around us our
family friends or neighbor do they see
that we're longing for Shabbos look
forward to shopping so that's where they
can find us that's home or do they think
that we're guests at Shabbos home is the
weekday home is work home is to do home
is technology which is home for you
which is more natural which do you
identify where's your male scent what's
home
in this year for all of us Shabbos
should be our home address
it should be our deer it should be our
home address it should be where we're
most comfortable it should be where we
belong it should be what elevates us and
on this Shabba Shiva Shabbos osios BOCES
Shabbos osis chuva it's the same letters
Shabbos we go into Shabbos and we can
repair and we can return and we can
restore and we can reboot Shabbos gives
us that strength that energy there's no
Sleepless you have to wake up earlier
than usual and Shabbos there's no video
there's no Hashem is
for 25 hours we escape that's the
ultimate chuba not a chuva a fear not a
tuba if I'm sorry but a chuva of now
we're living the love that we knew we
were capable of having Mirza it should
be not only this Shabbos every Shabbos
be prepared take advantage lean in turn
today this Friday and every Friday into
Arab Shabbos go put on some music go
schedule to be ready early go set up the
candles go set the table go enjoy some
tomaja go prepare to have the Shabbos
that's beautiful that's happy that's
healthy and that totally have a great
job
salvation
coffee
shops
have a great shout outs everyone