Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #208 - Make Shabbos a Big Party

[Music] welcome back welcome back to turn Friday into Arab shabas generously sponsored by mening support memory Jonathan with tremendous gratitude to our dear friends the fishmen it is not Friday my dear friends it is AR of shabas we are turning our Friday into AR of shabas I want to share with you an Insight it's based on the para but it doesn't have to be para's bod for you to be able to learn and listen and get excited about chabas to get excited about chabas how can we turn our Friday into Arab shabas how can we turn our Saturday into chabas how can we turn our chabas into something gal gak into something delicious and exciting and energizing and enthusiastic and something we count up to not countdown for it to be over there is a conversation in our par moso comes to parro over and over and over again and he says Let My People Go Let My People Go and parro finally after being smacked down and struck so many times by so many mockos so many plagues par finally concedes who's going who do you want because Moshe after all asked for three days to go to the midbar three days we want to go out to the desert we want to serve AEM we want to serve our God and says for three days okay who's going and Mos answers our young and our old our sons and our daughters so we're all going young and old children and adults we're all going even our our animals even our property and says okay I'm not letting everybody go only the men what's what going on in this debate what's going on in this conversation what was parro asking what was Moshe answering what did parro what did parro reject and again it's an Insight on P's B but you don't have to be listening even if it's not para's B while you're listening to this the insight about our turning our Friday into AR shabas remains true nonetheless the kleer I saw in the kaker Dr also brings this down in his many say the following idea and the following Insight MOS says we're going to the desert we want to serve God we want to worship for three days says me you going to worship okay who's going who are the rabbis who are the pastors who are the pre who are the preachers who are the priests who the clergy who leads the prayer who leads the religious service and ceremony the clergy what are the names of the clergy so I can give them a pass I'll give them a Visa and they can leave MIT they can leave Egypt for three days and what does Mosh raenu answer no way it's not just the clergy it's not just the pastors and the priests but we're all going you see see parro understood service religious service religious activity the word that par uses over and over again in the par and then say he sees aod as Service as ritual as ceremony and moshu answers Judaism is not relegated just to the clergy we don't have a priest or a pastor who has different life or lifestyle or expect ations than every one of us for us for us our our Judaism our there's a youthfulness and yet there's maturity and age it's young and it's old its sons and its daughters it's it's our property and our animals whyu it's it's it's a it's a party it's a yff it's a Yan in other religions the priest the pastor the clergy has to live a different lifestyle than the every man and in our religion the ra there's nobody who's different our Torah is meant for every one of us it enriches it enhances it empowers our lives and that's not true for anything more than shabas we turn our Friday into ER of shabas and we make our chabas galic and gmack and exciting when we engage when we make sure that chabas speaks to and resonates with our young and our old so as we get ready for shabas as we get ready for chabas think about how you could make your shabas table AEM how can shabas become a party that you look forward to I don't just mean the little kids in the shabus party and giving out the candy and the treats adults should also say shabas shabas is a shabas it's all a it's all a party it's all happy it's all positive it's all filled with love we're going to rest and we're going to read and we're going to laugh and we're going to joke and we're going to sing and we're going to tell stories and we're going to share insights and we're going to repeat Torah and we're going to spend time with no distractions no technology no to-do list and nothing else in the world because after all shabas shabas commemorates the Exodus that we left Egypt what does shabas have to do with that each and every week in our Ding and out our Kish we say the is shabas liberates us the same way we were liberated from Egypt all week long the Taskmaster is our technology Taskmaster is our to-do list the Taskmaster is our email our inbox shabas comes and it liberates us 25 hours guilt-free you can't do anything but be present it's a 25h hour Party Read and laugh and sing and learn and love and Dav and just spend time how do we create that atmosphere that culture in our homes and in our community how do we make our shabas table a fun place a gmack place a delicious place not a meal that we can't wait for it to end not we set the lights to go out early so our guests will leave and go home not our countdown to be able to just go to sleep how do we make the chabas table how do we make Arab shabas turn our Friday into Arab chabas by having music playing and the fragrances and the smells of shabas food cooking and the smile and the happiness and the joy what makes it because when we go with our children and grandchildren when the whole family gets into it when everyone's involved that's what makes it a it makes it a party so let's turn our Friday into a of chabas by making shabas by making AR shabas turn our Friday into AR chabas with great music and a skip in our step and a little dance with an excitement and a to and a happiness and a joy and a love and a laughter and to do it intergenerationally to do it with an eye for young and old and Sons and Daughters to involve and include everyone to ask thought-provoking questions and to stimulate their presence and to include them in our conversations and to include them in our song So wishing everyone a beautiful shabas a holy shabas a happy shabas a shabas that's a a chabas that's filled with love and life and laughter a chabas that we're counting up to and we can't wait for it to begin we're never ever ever counting down for it to end we just want to be there with our family and with all the generations now go turn your Friday into AR sh [Music] [Applause] [Music]