Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #198 - Embrace Your Royalty

[Music] G of shabas G of shabas today is not Friday today is shabas we're counting off looking forward to immerse ourselves the the the essence the purpose the pay off of it all while we work so hard while we're waiting and longing for lean in to enjoy a beautiful and shabas to than our generous shth [Music] this week and alah another shabas who doesn't need Shas bring bring good news and good tidings I want to continue what we started last week we're learning we return to Morganstern who's been opening our eyes and our hearts and our to the beauty of chabas and we last night last week began to learn and to ask ourselves and to wonder why if shabas is the day of of the spirit soul of a soul that's expanded it's more tuned in then why are we spending it nourishing the body eating drinking sleeping resting so much focus on the body and quoted a beautiful musall of the bov said the prince the son of the king is exiled from the King and he gets a letter from the King and he understands the joy and the happiness that he's going to be able to return his father Longs for him he's going to be reunited with his father the king but the the people he's around they don't understand they don't appreciate it means nothing so what does he do he buys a bottle and he pours a and he drinks that they understand a good a good a good schorg that they understand so they sing and they dance and they're Overjoyed just to be immersing themselves in food and drink and he's celebrating one thing they're celebrating another but by by indulging them they're able to celebrate together in said rer says the B that's what chabas is about that we are so to say bribing and distracting and indulging the goof the body so that the soul has the companionship of the body and happiness the body is not distracting the soul the body is not preoccupying the soul the body is distracted enjoying the indulgences of shabas of of good food of good drink of good dips of good Herring of good shellant of a Gish SCH of a good nap and because the body is so happy and satisfied it is not competing with or creating tension with the soul now the soul can Thrive now the soul can flourish from here we learn something so important shabas is a day of pleasantness a day of pleasure a day of Joy a day of Happiness a day of indulgenced the truest the most lasting the most Immortal pleasure there is in the world it's time with contact with the Divine love of the Divine a connection with the Divine the greatest pleasure in the world that there is is connection with the Divine with to be able to be overjoyed by having access to the truth and living with reality not an illusion us the best of us the most authentic part of us it's all it needs a good minion a beautiful cabal shabas nice sa a great that's all it needs to sing about him to dance with him to sing about him during the six days of creation but six days our body our body is busy earning a living buying cooking preparing indulging pampering the body so the natural order the natural world the world of materialism and physical is dragging us down so our our soul is like the prince the son of the king who's in captivity the soul is in captivity of the material physical world all week long and all week long driving our car and going to work and earning our living living and getting a return on our investments and shopping and cooking and preparing and so busy so busy engaging the physical world the forgets almost it's a Ben the forgets it's a prince it's royalty and shabas the light opens and now the soul can return can restore can see right that all there is all that's lasting all that's Immortal all that's Eternal is the soul is now it wants to return to and that's the first listen friends that says is the first the aod of turning Friday into a shabas are job our mission our mandate what we're working on today is to remember we're royalty we're princes and princesses and even if all week long maybe we didn't dress it and speak like it and act it and look like it and look at things that reflect it but now as we go into shabas we remember we're royalty we're princes and princesses and you see that people who are schubes people who are dirty people who are busy people who are disheveled all week long through the work of this world it's time to get ready for shabas oh a shabas clothing a shabas look a shabas p it's the it's the Ben it's the prince it's the royalty shabas is like getting a letter from every Friday we get a letter from Theon you're my son you're my daughter I didn't forget you yes Soul you're in captivity of this world of the material world I didn't forget you don't forget me don't forget me live the truth that's the and no matter how many times we F or we F no matter how many times we've fallen or we failed the reality is we are still princes and princesses we're Royal to we're Kings we're children of of the king and he writes us this letter to remind us to validate us to affirm us to tell us he loves us and we should love him and when we hear this we're Overjoyed with a true Joy this light is the ultimate that's all the wants to receive the light all the wants is to be nourished all the wants is to be validated all the Nisha wants is to have access all the nshama wants is to go home and that's what shabas is so all week long all week long we are held captive by this world watching looking listening running after pursuing chasing all week long we're working and then shabas we get this letter Friday turn Friday into Arab shabas by getting the letter turn Friday into Arab shabas by by remembering a letter from the King of Kings you're aama let yourself free be liberated in captivity it's not who you are so how do we sing and dance with whom do we sing and dance even in the Captivity that's where we bribe the body that's where we bribe the body even though we got this letter but we're still not home so what do we do we're in Gus we're still not with Hashem we're still in this world so what's the answer we make our surroundings happy and Overjoyed you give just like just like the prince in captivity who the other prisoners don't begin to understand the letter from his father so he gives a now they sing and dance we give to the body it's taken care of it's happy it's satisfied now that can Thrive after a good meal after a good drink after a good schuff now I'm ready for a Shear now I'm ready for a beautiful minion now I'm not looking at the clock now I'm ready to sing now I'm ready for Mya the soul can flourish and Thrive because the body is taking care of that's the role but our turning Friday into our shabas our job and our mission today remember restore come back to that fact and that reality you're a [Applause] Ben fellow princes and princesses my fellow royalty wishing the holy shabas and happy shabas [Music] and tid [Music] oh