Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #176 - Shabbos Menucha

a good Arab shabas today is not Friday today of course is Arab shabas Kesh a very special shabas every shabas is a special Shas we're all connected to our people and our people need all of ouros we need shabas and we're turning Friday shabas I want to thank our generous [Music] sponsor I want to talk to you today about a little bit about learning about some aspect of chabas that we don't think about there's an aspect of chabas called chabas man we think about the refraining from creative labor on chabas we think about the prohibition against doing labor on chabas and that's accurate and that's true there is a Prohibition of Mala you can't do the 39 creative labors on chabas WE translator today you can't get in a car you shouldn't use electricity but you can't cook and sew and winnow and plant and plow and so on and so forth but there's another component not only the list of don't do not only that which is prohibited the 39 categories of creative labor tells us in six days do your work on the seventh day rest so that your ox and your animal everything will be refreshed there is a positive commandment of Tish the positive commandment of Tish is a positive obligation to rest there's not just the negative Mitzvah not to do creative labor there is a positive Mitzvah to rest not just refrain from labor but rest what does it mean to rest what does it mean to fulfill the Mitzvah of we say in our on chabas we say in The KES that part of the day is all about it's about finding and attaining and experiencing and feeling a healthy sense of rest it's a true a real rest a giving rest it's an authentic rest it's a refreshing rest so what's rest is rest just the absence of action is rest just not working there's something so much more the commentaries derive all this from what chabas is all about God created the world for six days and in the seventh day he C created something more what did he create how did creation continue into the seventh day if the seventh day he was no longer doing work and the answer is he created something called rest rest is not just the absence of work rest is not just the cessation of something rest is not just the stopping of something there's something actually proactive there's something positive there's something called rest is something it's a form of work we work to rest that's what rest is we're working to rest we're working to be still we're working to surrender we're working to submit we're working for calm we're working for tranquility we're working for peace we're working for B we're working working for Oneness it's not just a rest which is the absence of work it's a rest which is a real man which is a real and a true and a genuine rest it's what chabas is all about I'll tell you why this is very much resonating for me because I was in New York this week we had an incredible fly in and then beautiful Sim on Tuesday night was scheduled to come back Wednesday morning I won't go through all the Gory details now I boarded a plane at 10 a.m. then after getting on three separate planes and sitting on planes for eight or nine or 10 hours God absolutely nowhere didn't get back until Thursday it was a crazy day with was all part of hashem's Adventure and it was no problem whatsoever a Jew a yid is never stuck we're just B where we're meant to be however that constant effort spent a day and a half trying to be in movement a day and a half trying to travel a day and a half trying to be B to get back a day and a half trying to journey and then chabas comes and there's rest there's Manuka Stillness Stillness and after a week in which it was so hard to travel and to journey and to move to be able to embrace the tranquility and the serenity of Stillness of that's that's that's that's a man that's real that's authentic that's genuine it's not just I stop working it's not just I stop moving man Stillness is not just when you stop moving Stillness is when you lean into being still when you lean into stopping to move the tranquility and the peace and the calm to reflect on everything that was and to plan for everything that will be and to experience and lean in and be fully present for being still there is nowhere to go I'm not trying to be in movement I'm not trying to get somewhere I'm not trying to achieve or accomplish I'm not trying to take off or land I'm not trying to get that last seat I'm still it's chabas b shabas b shabas comes and with it brings a Mana with it comes a real and a genuine and a true man his beautiful he say this is the only true and real and Lasting real we say in our daving we say our children should see and know from you comes is not from ourselves it's not just I'm still man is not just a really good schu on the couch or in our bed record setting amounts of time we sleep man is not just boards and scotch and wine and Tequila man is not it's not external it's inner it's when a yid surrenders and submits to hm and says hem all week long I'm in movement all week long I'm in motion all week long I'm trying to catch that flight but shabas comes shabas comes shabas I'm B there is no one and nothing but you and to demonstrate that and to exhibit that I still I am absolute and utterly still I'm still I'm still and I surrender to you and that man is Aus that Manuka is not just the absence of work it's not an opposite or a lack of something it is creative there's something creative that still happens on chabas there's not creative motion and movement there's creative Stillness and with it tranqu qu ility and rest and peacefulness and genuine and true man this is a week I know I feel it so EXC was with us for shabus an incredible concerts two incredible concerts Sunday at BRS what a what a wonderful chabas can't wait for this shabas Manuka to connect to him and through him to erus through all our brothers and sisters and while we're in motion and while we're constantly working to be able to lean into that Stillness and for 25 hours have a and with it let we and our children know Hashem I'm always gonna be in movement I'm always gonna be in motion I'm always going to be working and thinking I can attain I can achieve I can manipulate I can control unless real peace comes from you only when I submit and surrender to youm real it comes from you we should all be to a true that comes from Hashem the peace and the Serenity and the Tranquility that only shabas [Music] provides to the nation people of Israel the beautiful holy restful shabas bring the Soros to