Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #185 - Most Important Ingredient in Shabbos Food is You

[Music] a good AR of shabas a good AR of shabas today is not Friday today is AR of shabas and we are here to turn our Friday into a of shabas want to thank our generous sponsors have and Aliyah his God we should the shabas bring Good Tidings good news the hostages come home May the soldiers return to their families let us see our only only good things so we're here to turn our Friday into shabas and I I want to share with you an incredible teaching a beautiful beautiful teaching something based on but an Insight or an observation of it that comes from the Holy G rash Alita who is in the midst of sitting sha for the loss of his mother his holy mother he should have together with his brothers together with his whole family the says in our listen whether you're listening to this or some other time of the year it doesn't matter this is a turn Friday into ER shab's message whenever you're listening to it but in tells us the Jewish people cried and they said who's going to feed us meat who's gonna Feed Us meat what were they crying about they said even more who's goingon to feed this meat we remember we remember the fish M was free the Cucumbers the melons the leaks the onions the garlic oh gach we had a buffet we had a schorg we have so much food we remember remember how good it was and who's going to give us meat B Isel began their complaint longing for meat but they didn't just question or long for the meat they reminisced about the food that they used to have in so the holy explains that say the following a person could have the man taste like any food that they wanted amazing great for Shalom Bas this one could have mil this one could have flak this one could have Chinese this one could have barbecue this one could have cheesecake tasted like whatever you want but here's here's the qualification It could only tastes like a food that you're familiar with if you never ate that food you can't imagine it in the M you have to be able to conjure up a memory of a food you once had and then the M could taste like that food and that was the miracle of the M that the M tasted like what you wanted but it had to be something that you previously had previously eaten so the taste of fish and cucumbers and melon leaks and onions and garlic B were all familiar with they ate it in MIT that's all they ate in MIT so any time they wanted they could invoke that flavor in the M because they were familiar with it so why they say who's going to give us meat because they were unfamiliar with Taste of the meat so you say one second occasionally they had meat in MIT occasionally they had access to fles to meat so what do you mean they were familiar with meat so why do they say now who will give us meat we're not familiar with meat so listen to what the bich says he says an incredible he said meat meat that had that was slaughtered and M that was salted and that was rinsed meat that was prepared according to has a different taste than non Kosher meat so what's the talking about because kosher meat tastes saltier than non kosher meat that's not what he's talking about non-jews also add salt to their meat what's the talk about what do you mean Kosher meat and non- Kosher meat taste different they taste different so it says the rash is not talking about the taste of meat at all salt no salt barbecue sauce what kind of How It's flavored the rub that's put on it he means that meat that is prepared in accordance with hm's mitzvos becomes suffused with an exalted spiritual taste and the the concludes once B received the Torah they felt repulsed by the taste of non kosher meat once CL got the Torah and got an instruction for how to sh and how to salt and how to prepare Kosher meat non kosher me to them tasted repulsive even though they ate it previously they don't want to taste that flavor in the m so they're now in a predicament the non kosher Taste of meat that they remember from MIT they don't remember they don't want to taste the m to taste like that it's not kosher for the mon to taste like Kosher meat it couldn't they weren't yet familiar with it they had never yet experienced it so that's why they said Bas who's gonna Feed Us meat we long for meat we miss meat we can't remember the non Kosher meat we don't eat Kos non kosher anymore but we don't know Kosher meat because we haven't had Kosher meat so even though we can remember the fish and the cucumbers and the melons and the leaks and the onions and the garlic who's going to remember how can we taste how can we access the taste of meat soter and here's the turn Friday into AR of shabas message I saw this I saw this Kad Ley and I saw the G rash's take on it and I thought to myself the following these words of the they teach us incredible thing see when we eat food when we eat meat we taste the Mitzvah that were performed in its preparation we don't just absorb and taste and swallow food but that food has an energy the food has a personality the food has an identity the food has a status and we're eating and we're tasting and we're em bibing and we're absorb absorbing and we are being impacted by that so non kosher meat they couldn't eat the non kosher meat but the Kosher meat tasted different why because when mitos are done on meat Kosher meat has a different taste it tastes like shita it tastes like Malika it tastes like washing it tastes like coved chabas it tastes like coved Yan and therefore a person has to understand that when you're cooking for chabas when you're preparing for chabas you can't be listening to something extraneous you can't be talking about something narish some small Lush and or even if it's not but something insignificant and something unimportant what we're thinking about and what we're talking about and what we're listening to it all goes into the meat and the cougle and the dips and the salad and the Herring all the food that we're preparing for shabas what we're thinking what we're talking what we're listening to it goes into it just like the Kosh tasted different than the non Kos because the Mitzvah of the Kosh went into it so the Mitzvah of COV shabas goes into any of the food that we eat for chabas that's why if you made a chalant on a Tuesday it would taste totally different than the chalant you make for chabas if you make a potato CLE on a Wednesday tastes totally different than the potato CLE you make for chabas I same ingredients same recipe same oven same same utensil same Chef same cook why it come out different because when you do it chabas when you do it chabas it has an all together different taste so from par the B the B from the K Ley and from rash you see an incredible idea but means we have to be careful when we turn our Friday into shabas means that we have to be very very careful we have to be careful to have the right thoughts and be listening to right things and be saying the right things if we're talking on the phone because our whole attitude if chabas KES we're doing it with joy with a Bren with a fire with excitement or is it a burden and a pain and a misery all of that is going into the food and our holy and precious family whom we protect at all costs and we care so much about it's going into the food the most important ingredient in the shabas food is the r is the spirit the energy the personality that we give that food so be careful take advantage turn Friday into a of shabas by giving a personality to the food care not only about the recipe care also about what's going into that food may we hear good news and good tidings