Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #158 - Heaven Here on Earth

wishing everyone a good AR of shabas it should be an AR of shabas filled with BOS toos good news [Music] yeshu shabas Arab G turning our Fridays into Arab chabas together I want to thank our generous sponsors menish member ofab Jonathan saak and today is turned Friday into shabas is also sponsored by my dear friends Jeffrey am goldgrab in memory of his grandfather Ben Ben AR who six side is today dad klave Mam and alah certainly looking down incredibly proud of the gold grab family so here we are yet another Friday turning our Friday into Arab chabas going into the sixth chabas of am at war a war that doesn't have an end in sight not only we get rid of Kamas but confront anti-Semitism that is increasing and surrounding us and it's in the context of this war that so many we love don't have the luxury of shabas the way they want the soldiers in the front lines the soldiers in Gaza their can spend shabas but we can and because we can we have to experience our shabas even more Holier and higher and experience it for them as well for them as well that includes turning our Friday into Arab shabas in all of the best way nolus no cast no anger there can't be an there can't be fire there's so many people fighting with us we can't fight with one another there are so many emotions that we are experiencing there's no room for anger towards one another turning Friday into Arab shabas means already beginning to experience the light of the Friday night candles the Shalom of the Shalom bias of chabas if it's that peace that We crave that peace that we long for that peace that we yearn so badly then we need to experience that peace within our homes and within our lives we need to be able to find that peace for ourselves turning Friday into not Friday it's not St another day as these days are getting shorter it is er shabas it is the beginning of Peace the beginning of light the beginning of Holiness the beginning of tasting a little bit of the world to come here on it's a beautiful piece by not this year and previous and he speaks about the following we're reading about yob and though if you're listening to this na par told us it's equally relevant for chabas all throughout the year and he speaks about yakob and ASA were two twin brothers and they were supposed to be able to bridge Heaven and Earth but do it from opposite directions yov this is elaborated on by the or first of gal yob is the one who sits in the tent he studies Torah he clings to the Tree of Life he's a man of the field he's a man of the earth he's a man of the physical sometimes sometimes our work is regarding the Earth and sometimes our work is to be in the heavens sometimes our feet are here on Earth we are living here on Earth our address is here on Earth but we're bringing a Little Bit of Heaven down to earth we're in fact protected by immersed in we're living in a in a experience of sh of Heaven even here on Earth that is the Fulfillment of the our holy Patriarchs and matriarchs yob Theos yob the culmination of Theos the best of Theos the best of the combination of Theos all the more so he was Yos yes he was here on Earth but he was immersed in that tent he brought down A Slice of Heaven how do you place heaven on Earth when you immerse when you enter the Bas Med the B aines when you enter the world of Torah the enter the world of you're bringing Heaven down here on Earth that's what Yakov experienced that's what Yakov taught us that's what Yakov transmitted to us was supposed to be the opposite was as's mission and job was to take the Earth and bringing up to heaven as the ker says like teaches the heavens is and the Earth is mans the Earth is mans to turn it into is AIA the world of doing so Yakov is the is a simple World who's at peace with nature and at peace with the physical material and trying to be able to elevate to a place of Heaven even here on Earth as is the opposite as to do to be active to conquer to manipulate to control to take this physical world and to elevate it and to lift it and to bring it till it combines till it connects with with heavens yakob of course fulfilled his mission ASV failed at his asov got so distracted by and tempted by and indulged in this physical world he forgot to elevate it he didn't bring it all the way up this he didn't connect it with with heaven we have to correct that asa's failure all week long says all week long we're living in the world ofia we're living in the world of all week long we are earning a living all week long we are doing Mal the 39 categories of creative labor all week long we are trying to conquer in control and manipulate hashem's world the world he put us in the world he said go work it and go protect it we're trying to turn this world and lift it and enrich it and elevate it and connect it to Heavens but then says shabas comes shabas is a shabas is identified and associated with yobu yob is the and therefore shabas ISU shabas is a world of just like yob was Yos shabus we disconnect from this world there is no manipulating and conquering and controlling there is no to-do list and tasks there are no emails there is no ordering on Amazon there is no news to follow we are disconnected from this world because for 25 hours we enter Heaven even here on Earth for 25 hours we immerse ourselves in Shay on we have that luxury soldiers don't they are very much here on Earth battling and fighting and protecting they don't have that luxury that's the way they're meant to experience their chabas right now protecting us so that we can have a chabas which is shabas is which the tum translates as it's the day of of we forget about the body and the physical and the material we enter this world of that's our soul is expanded our soul is more in tuned our soul is more more more broad our soul is more capable of feeling our soul is up in it's not a coincidence that the gatria the same words says is when when our soul when when our soul and the peace of God in us is on fire we elevated we're all the way up in the heavens we are able to even while here on Earth enter a place that is the heavens you know just like a country has an embassy elsewhere and the status of the embassy the law of the embassy is the law of the country that it represents so if you go into the American Embassy in Israel you're bound by the laws of America if you go into the Israel Embassy in America it's as if you're in Israel while you're in America we the Shu in space and shabas in time is the embassy of shamayim how do we get a taste of Heaven even here on Earth by by immersing ourselves by entering by experiencing by being in in chabas so we have this chance we have this opportunity we have this privilege we have this BR to really experience the Yas and the day of the the day of chabas so we turn our Friday into ER of shabas by beginning to transition to slip away from the world of the Goof of the physical of the material of theara to go into this place of spirituality of music and of song and of daving and of learning of ideas not of things of experiences and people not of objects and material pleasures and material success that's what it means to turn Friday into a of shabas that's what it means to really experience chabas itself is to to walk in the footsteps of yov to experience shabas to be to spend more time around our table more time in sh more time in the Bas M more time in learning all week long raising money for isra fighting for Israel advocating for Israel rallying for Israel all week long we're working and earning and providing and supporting shabas is the time of Y to go into our home and sit around our table with the people that we love never taking any of them for granted the privilege to sit with them and sing with them and share Torah with them it means this opportunity to open and to learn Torah and live Torah and teach Torah and experience Torah it means to DAV from the bottom of our hearts to D FR what matters most should to be able to bring sh down here to and with it yes to us as we turn our Friday into Arab [Music] shabas