Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #203 - Illuminate Your Shabbos

[Music] welcome back to turn Friday into a of shabas today is not only not Friday it's a of shabas it's a of shabas Kaneka very very special shabas combining so many of the lights that can lift us turn Friday into AR shabas is generously sponsored by meni and fish in memory of as I mentioned it's not just shabas and that means that we are combining and we are integrating incredible candles incredible lights incredible Flames that in this darkness and the world in which we're living en cloaked in so much Darkness this shabas is an opportunity to bring so so so much light the light of the shabus candles combined with the light of the of the manura and all those flames and all that light can illuminate and illuminate the world and when you think about it these candles are very different on the one hand the kanaka candles that will light tonight on a of chabas make sure that you use candles that will last half an hour after or say whenever your Mina generally is to light but obviously we have to light by by Sunset and you need fuel or oil or candles that will last at least half an hour after the period of sunset those kanak candles are we're not allowed to use them we don't read next to them we don't count next to them all we do is look at them all we do is gaze at them those candles repair they improve they fix whatever damage we've done to our eyes that light illuminates the darkness that flame it flickers like the we don't use them we can't read next to them they can't be the light we need a shamash why so that in case there's any light that's benefiting us we're using or benefiting from the light of the shamas rather than the light of the minur because we can't use the light of the manur the shamas candles are exactly the opposite shabas candles are not just there to look pretty they're not just there to look nice shabas candles can't be in a distance inaccessible far away in another room the shabas candles aren't in a glass case the shabas candles are there in order to increase shom bias to make sure that you don't stub your toe because you'll step on something left in the middle of the room and it's pitch black and you didn't notice it shabas candles are lit next to the shabas table shabas candles are lit in a place in which they can illuminate in which they can help so you have opposite candles one set of candles the KHAK candles are there not to use just to look at and the other the shabas candles are there not to look at they're there to use and when we combine these two sets of candles shabas khaka so so so much light so much light it's such an exciting chabas we can tap into the shabas and the truth is the candles have a power that chabas candles sometimes don't have the um the says similarly the tells us in that the same Wicks that are ineligible to be used for shabas candles for whatever reason they don't catch quickly they don't light nicely they don't draw the flame but they're eligible and they meet the criteria of Kan and what does that mean said what it means is sometimes a Jew doesn't get lit up by shabas but the same Jew who stumbles with the shabas who struggles with shabas butaka gets lit by khaka excited the Miracles khaka the renewal of khaka the ability the identity of Kana the khaka can light up the Nish and the heart and the soul and the spark of a Jew so tonight we combine shabus khaka the the the candles of khaka and the candles of the of chabas and it brings the great light it brings a tremendous tremendous light says says that's a we say the that we say on shabas morning you know the two columns we say to the one who makes great lights his kindness endures forever so what are these in the multiple oim in the plural oim lights which lights what lights does hem make he writes shab we sing in our of shabas we're gonna sing tonight that rest and Joy are the light of the Jewish people shabas is a time of light all week long we stumble we trip we make our way through the darkness come shabas and we step out into the light and's kindness he gives us Shas he gives us but the great kindness is he gives us wow what a high what an incredible incredible gift he gives us so we're going into the chabas there no ordinary chabas get ready turn this Friday not just into AR of chabas turn this Friday into a of shabas khaka that means to say don't be rushed a person needs to be ready and have their family ready to light the khaka candles early because you have to be ready way before shabas before you light the candles in any case to light the get candles have time to sing have time to sing and then get the get the calmly serenely don't be rushing don't be using the last of the 18 minutes be able to go to sh welcome khaka and welcome shabas and welcome the two together those lights and that's the BR I have for you and for me taka today should not just be turned Friday into shabas it should be a day of let's make great light let's make great light let's step out out of the darkness let's make great light let's illuminate the world let's tap into the use of the candles for shom for shom for the Peace of chabas let's look at the candles and repair the damage to our eyes the Y of vision of seeing OFA and together let's spread a great light the light of Mia the light OFA the light that will bring the hostages home the light that will bring peace to our soldiers may it be AAS shabas a joyous shabas and a lit chabas a light shabas a shabas that is all lit up [Applause] say [Applause] [Music]