Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #209 - Remember and Forget

[Music] back Friday not [Music] Friday and I want to thank our turn FR into a shabas generous sponsors many a fisherman memory Jonathan sa oh it is Friday and we're turning our Friday into a of shabas and what a shabas it's going to be a beautiful shabas on the par that we read about and we learn about and we were given the Mitzvah of shabas Ten Commandments says remember the day of shabas in order to sanctify it and Rashi says the word is written with a person on chabas is in a state of remembering chabas is characterized chabas is synonymous with Z remembering being present being mindful remembering what are we remembering what are we remembering our childhood Camp our favorite song our favorite food what are we remembering on chabas that chabas is day of of remembering Fus writes this is quoted in a previous beautiful essay by writes shabas is the day we remember why are we here why are we put in this world it's a taste of what it's really all about because this world is a place of forgetfulness all week long we are distracted all week long we forget what matters what's important being with our family spending times with ourselves being in conversation with Hashem learning and laughing and singing and doing all week long we're fighting to survive to pay our bills to get through the day to do what we need to we're in the we're in a world that causes us to forget what's most important and what matters and shab shabas is a day of it's a day of remembering a day of remembering and he goes on and he writes so beautifully I want to share with you quoting from the now forgetfulness has a role in this world why writes that the reason that we forget is because if we held on to every pain if we held on to every moment of suffering we held on to every poor decision or bad judgment or bad moment we could never operate we could never live so forgetting forgetfulness is a blessing it's a blessing to forget the pain the hurt it's a for it's a blessing to forget the sting of something someone said or the harm of the injury that they caused forgetting can be a blessing but remembering is also a blessing remembering what matters remember what's important remembering our history remembering our Precious Moments remembering is also a blessing there's a blessing in both and he writes if we remembered everything we can never live we can never operate we'd be in a Perpetual state of pain says there's a benefit and a value to forgetting the fleeting part of this world forget to forget what doesn't matter forget what's fleeting forget what's temporary it turns out that a person has two powers to remember and forget the power of memory the power of remembering is to remember what matters to remember what's important to remember those shared moments the power of forgetting is the forgetting and dropping and moving on from what doesn't the says however mixes up and confuses these two powers in this world what happens what happens instead of remembering what matters what's important and forgetting and dropping what's unimportant we tend to remember and to hold on to what's fleeting and we tend to forget why we're here we tend to forget what's most precious what's most important what matters the most we tend to forget our mission we get it backwards we get it upside down but shabas KES comes when the Holy the Hal shabas comes and it helps each of us remember we forget the heav shabas comes and our bank account and the news and our world and our work and our to-do list it all doesn't matter we forget it forget the sports scores and the box scores we forget the stock we forget it all and what do we remember we remember what matters to be surrounded by our family to be spending our time Ding and learning to be enjoying the company of others to be singing the song of shabas so all week long we remember what we should forget and we forget what we should remember and shabas comes and shabas corrects it and these are the two Mitzvah of shabas says they are the two sets of so remember what matters sh forget what doesn't matter so right so that's our mission that's our mandate that's our work that's why we're here that's how we turn our Friday into a of shabas get it right as we're getting ready put on that music start dancing cook that food set that table get that shower running and wash off all the regret all the remorse all the mistakes of the week and we turn our Friday into of chabas by getting it right by entering a to go to a place of let's remember what matters let's remember what counts let's remember eternity and immortality let's remember our and let's remember sh let's remember a taste of the world to come and shamur let's protect ourselves from Forgetting what doesn't matter doesn't matter it's Nite it's nothing Let It Go move on it's this world it's fleeting it's passing Z the sh let's not get it backwards let's remember what matters let's forget what doesn't let's spend our shabas remembering who we are what we're capable of remembering what matters the most and spending our time with the most precious being so wishing everyone a holy shabas happy shabas healthy shabus a shabas of that shabas yes sh bring yes should bring wonderful and great things for all of us and for all of [Music] the [Music] [Applause]