Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #161 - Double the Light

it should be a day of we should hear and around the world as always we want to thank our dear friend meni and Fishman for sponsoring turn Friday into a shabas in memory of Jonathan tax and in honor ofo today is also sponsor by Anna Jack m in commemoration of her father's 26 year Paul p we have to not be afraid no matter what is happening all around us has a plan takes care of us I want to share with you a beautiful thought from it's not available in print but and it connects chabas and khaka together as we are entering this beautiful shabas khaka the light will burn the brightest we're lighting about the candles of chabas the candles of the manur the combination should illuminate the world from the darkness the darkness that is surrounding not only the borders and boundaries of Israel from the enemies the darkness that is in America we are finding we need to illuminate we need to dispel it we need to light the brightest brightest lights the that there is aah to with words a person has to establish inaugurate create the book ends of shabas with when chabas begins we distinguish it from what came before through KES when shabas ends we distinguish it what comes afterwards with havdalah KES at the beginning and havdalah at the end havdalah is KES of shabas and the question is how is havdalah create KES of shabas I understand Friday night you say KES and you say today just an hour ago a minute ago it was a weekday it was V it was mundane now we were madesh the sun is set and the shabas has come upon us and we are mades we sanctify the shabas but tomorrow night when shabas ends when we say hav how are we sanctifying shabas by saying says that the first time something appears in the Torah that is its and from there we can learn about everywhere else in the Torah so where do you see havalah for the first time what is havah how does havalah create KES how is havalah create Holiness or sanctity for what comes before the first time we see it is in the Tor the light was good and he distinguished and rash there says saw that the light was good but he didn't want to give evil and wicked people access to This Light to these Sparks to this power to this energy so what did he do he distinguished it for theik he hid away this great light the brightest light he reserved this light for the righteous to make sure that those who are less than righteous would not have access to it explains based on this the whole idea the establishment of is that Wicked people not benefit from that light because if Wicked people could connect their evil their nefarious their pernicious plans to that light they would compromise and they would blemish that light if we want the light to only illuminate good if we want that light to spark and be the energy the fuel for good it has to be distinguished and held back it has to be reserved from the wicked having access to it so based on this and based on this beautiful Insight of what is just like the original havah like said the first time you see something in the Torah tells us what it means what it is just like the original havah was Hashem created light he saw it was good and then he set it aside and he protected it he reserved it to make sure the wrong people wouldn't get it similarly was special shabas was incredible chabas was a bright light shabas we learned and chabas we sang and chabas we laughed and chabas we played and shabas we rested and chabas we connected chabas was filled with Incredible light none of the darkness of technology and Todo none of the darkness of Temptation chabas was a great light so what do we do on mot shabas if the light of chabas continues to shine if the light of chabas overlaps into the weekday the mundane the profane it could compromise shabas it could corrupt the light of chabas so we say so that we create this distinction this barrier there's the light of shabas and it's beautiful and of course it should inform and Inspire the week that will follow after but it shouldn't always corrupt or compromise that light and that's when a person is willing to say this was holy this was sacred this was special this was incredible and I don't want to go back to what was and I don't want to get confused with what should be and I don't want for one thing to spill into the other I'm creating there's a distinction and there's a difference then you fulfill then in fact you are elevating and sanctifying the most that's why tomorrow night we say says these three distinctions between light and dark the Jewish people and non-jews the seventh day in the six days of the week or light and dark distinction in the world the natural world the of the and the light of the light comes out of our mik versus the darkness of the world around us and then you have in so that's the you see this distinction in in a world in a physical in the spiritual in the persones between the Jew and the non-jew and the three levels or PLS that we live in are space time and soul so in Space the difference between aik or and everywhere else in the soul the difference between a Jew and a non-jew and in the year the difference between the seeven the six days of the week and the day of the core of person has to know there's a difference there's a divide there's a line there are boundaries there are borders that we work on that's why we say where do we say because if you don't is is the ability to distinguish to know the difference between different things so say what does that to do with khaka and the Beautiful holy shabas KH that we're going into what is the connection the days of already the Western light went out we were assimilating we forgot the source of our sanctity we didn't create boundaries we were assimilating our values we were assimilating our priorities we were assimilating our ideas we were assimilating our ideals we were assimilating pursuing the same things prioritizing the same way trying to be woke to the same ideas and therefore we lost that havdalah we lost that havdalah and what does a Jew have to do we have to light a candle in order to create havdalah we have to bring light in order to bring light in order to dispel we have to bring light in order to dispel that Darkness in order to dispel that Darkness so tonight we light the candles of chabas and we go into chabas knowing we make abdalah tomorrow night to preserve the beauty The Burning Flame of shabas and we light the lights of Kana to dispel the darkness of the the darkness of assimilation the darkness of those who who are trying to extinguish this Jewish ideal Jewish Journey Jewish values Jewish future we light the light of khaka the light of chabas the two go together and with it we illuminate the world and we dispel the darkness should be a beautiful shabas should be a holy chabas that brings the peace the success the Triumph the victory it should be a chabas in which all of am Israel can rest knowing we're safe and secure our hostages are home our boys are home should be a shabas in which there's nothing we see and we feel hasem everywhere so we have nothing to fear at all