Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #160 - Are You a Kosher Witness?

may it be a good Arab shabas a beautiful Friday that we're turning into Arab shabas and a holy and a peaceful and a successful chabas for us all big thank you to our turn Friday to shabas sponsors our dear friends meni and fish meman are back ceasefire is over we're back in a war back our boys and young ladies on the front line fighting for the Jewish people's lives shabas which is the source of shab should bring strength shab bring success shabas should bring Victory shabas should bring peace shabas should bring the hospital his home shabas should bring only good things so we I want to share with you this uh a of shabas an Insight from it's not from this week but it's a beautiful Insight it's relevant to each and every week he says the Jewish people all of us live in a world that is filled with li and distortions it's an upside down world it's a world that is trying to get us to be distracted and distorted and delusional at times and the world is not the world of Truth one of the ways it does it is to make us believe that the external The Superficial the beauty that's what matters and the pus the essence the essential the inner that that's not true difficult to cling to and stick to the truth to see the world for what it really is to understand the essence to live at the highest level is a challenge it's not easy the world is seducing us the world of marketing is distracting us the world is confusing us and as we are going through this crisis in Israel deeply disappointed in the world and a world of media social media online Offline that so misrepresents and misunderstands the truth did an Incredible God gave us a great gift and the great gift he gave us is called shabas the essence of shabas is after six days that are complicated and confusing after six days that the world naturally the physical world is confusing and complicating and the people of the world who are distorting the truth are confusing and complicating but every week we come back to shabas shabas is our anchor shabas is our Compass shabas Roots us and shabas testifies to the uniqueness of hasem that there is a God omnident infinite being the creator of the universe that he created it all sh shabas commemorates The Exodus from Egypt and shamas commemorates the creation itself and we remember that there is a Creator and that he continues to be involved in our lives in the world that nothing is random or chance but it's all orchestrated from above shabas is that weakly boost of is that Weekly recharge of faith that it all comes from him and shabas we it doesn't happen automatically and it doesn't happen on its own and it doesn't happen if you're a passive spectator to IT person has to actively engage on chabas person has to seek out Hashem person has to testify to hashem's existence person has to feel the presence of hem bed near Kish listen to this Insight Friday night we say KES we say we read the section of Genesis of that describes when God first created the world and whatever your gives for the second part of Kes whether you stand or sit but universally all of us stand for the first part of why the answer is this paragraph these few sentences that we introduce KES with that we describe that God created heaven and earth they are testimony we Are Witnesses and we are testifying that this world didn't come into being by chance but this world is part of the design of the creator of the designer tells us tell us that we stand because we're giving testimony we stand up and before we sanctify the day with KES we say even after a week that we thought were in control or we thought others were in control even in a week in which it was confusing who was in control and why things happened we come back to shabas and we have Clarity shabas we offer testimony shabas we connect it all back to Hashem and we do so while standing says the if it's true that is giving testimony to that's why some have in they don't we sayu and as well after the on Friday night we sayu and some won't say it alone if you were still let's say daving while the community the said you find someone else to say it with them why because it's you're giving testimony testimony requires two witnesses you can't do it alone you have to do it with someone else disagreed he said it only is like testimony it's not actual testimony we know that because basan testimony is not offered at night and here we are at night Friday night the night of chabas testifying about hem so it's not literal testimony Bound by the laws of testimony but it is a figurative metaphorical testimony and according to many though it is literal we're testifying that God is the creator of Heaven and Earth we are testifying shabas renews reinvigorates shabas we re-energize our understanding our mindfulness our comprehension our representation our advocacy that the Hashem is in control and charge of this world that he is the one who puts it all together so that testimony has to be done while standing that testimony ensures done with at least another and says the but there's another law that when it comes to testimony a person has to be qualified to be a witness person who's disqualified someone who's a gambler somebody who's stolen somebody who violates Torah somebody who doesn't act with honesty and integrity is not qualified to be a witness a Jewish Court a rabinal court a basedin will not accept the testimony of such a person so if we are all testifying we have to be eligible to testify when a witness testifies they can't give some wishy-washy testimony I think maybe perhaps might be when you give testimony you have to say it with confidence you have to say it with passion conviction the witness has to testify with certainty so so to his Witnesses we can't maybe there's a God maybe he created the world maybe he runs it maybe he's in charge no there has to be conviction and Clarity and confidence there's a has he created the world and he runs it I believe it I know it I live it I feel it and I'm here to testify about it but am I a legitimate witness am I qualified to be a witness so here we have a new idea about turn Friday into shabas says that how do you turn your Friday into ER of shabas spend Friday becoming a kosher witness if Friday night you have to give adus you give testimony that Hashem created heaven and earth Friday you turn Friday into a of chabas by becoming a kosher witness becoming a kosher witness checking El do we have honesty do we have integrity do we live with faith do we do Torah and mitzvos who are we and how do we live are we qualified are we a kosher witness are we a coach or witness that's how we turn Friday into a shabas and we give that then we give that testimony with conviction so this is not just a beautiful idea a nice thought this is we stand for the beginning of Kes because we're giving testimony some find a second person to say why because two witnesses have to give testimony and we part of Friday and turning Friday into a shabas is looking in the mirror and evaluating are we legitimate are we qualified witnesses can we in fact give a testimony that will be heard that will enter into the court record is our testimony valid is our testimony compelling that's how we turn Friday into shabas by making sure that we have compelling testimony shabas may we indeed see the hand of Hashem continue to protect our people and bring our hostages home and bring a sweeping Victory may we testify to hashem's greatness that the Miracles just just like he took us out of he'll take us out of this and every other predicament as well have a restful and a peaceful shabas shabas should be a place that is [Music] Mak the main thing is when you testify to hashem's existence when you know he's the Creator there is nothing to fear at all nothing to fear at all