Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #210 - Transform the Atmosphere

[Music] of shabas good of shabas everyone we are here to turn our Friday into Arab shabas no Friday only Arab shabas and we're grateful to our generous donor our sponsor for our turn Friday into Arab shabus series and memory Jonathan and I want to share I want to come back to a thought I shared on the par this week and expand on it a little bit more because there's a reference to shabas in our whether you're listening shabas M or any other time the Torah tells us six days do work doesn't even say your work you do you what you have to do technology to-do Travel Shop exercise work out go get on the seventh day seventh day come shabas comes rest rest why now the Torah gives us what seems to be ostensibly a reason on the seventh day rest Torah says what's the reason so that work six days seventh day rest why so your ox and your donkey will rest so that they will rest and and is bothered by a question that's the T of chabas the reason that we rest on chabas the reason we refrain from creative labor is so that our animal keep shabas so that our animal rest so that your ox and your donkey can rest that's why you should keep shabas that's what it's all about chabas is for us chabas is our day that we connect to Hashem our Nish is yes shabas is not about our dog and our cat our hamster and our lizard it's not about our ox and our donkey that makes no sense so says a very beautiful thought a very beautiful idea he ties he translates the PK and he says shabus is not for your animal Torah is not saying so that your animal rests the Torah is defining it is describing the kind of chabas we should keep keep such a chabas transform and change the atmosphere of your home on chabas so much that your cat that your dog will know that something different is going on this isn't an ordinary weekday this isn't Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday the atmosphere the energy in the home is different the chabas environment the chabas climate the chabas atmosphere is so defin your ox and your donkey your cat and your dog they'll notice it they'll be able to sense it there's something palpable something almost tangible the whole atmosphere is changed so how do we do that how do we change an atmosphere when you put out a weight tablecloth already on Thursday night or Friday morning the whole atmosphere has changed the way we dress we come to the shabas table shabas clothing don't wear a robe don't dress down put on a Tisha put on a special bot for chabas special shabus before you go to sleep shabas pajamas shabas treats that you don't eat during the week IES candies go through para questions the magazines the books what we read only on chabas that's for chabas Friday the music that plays for AR of shabas there are so many ways that we can change the atmosphere in the home by changing the tablecloth changing the music playlist on Friday on the buildup by changing what we dress how we carry ourselves by changing even things like our pajamas or our slippers or the treats or the candies or what we don't have all week long but we might indulge a little bit on chabas or the beverages we can change the atmosphere so that our Axe and our donkey can rest not because that's the purpose and point of chabas but that is the measure and Metric how do you know if you're really keeping chabas because if it's a chabas of just dos and don'ts if it's a chabas of checklist Judaism if it's a shabas that just play by the book The Laws the 39 creative labor the atmosphere doesn't change you're just dos and don'ts just a thing of laws and rules but if you're really keeping chabas if you're singing the song of chabas if you're doing the dance of chabas if your whole pum if you're putting on your P shabas the C your chabas pum is changed then your dog and your cat are going to say this is no ordinary day something's different today I sense it I smell it I hear it I feel it I see it the shabas atmosphere so this is my challenge to you what can you do to change the shabas atmosphere in your home how can I be that someone who walks in or your cat and your dog who live there will know some today must be shavas look where they're dressed look at the smile on their face look at the light that's coming from them look at the lack of distraction look how present they are in their conversations and all that they're doing this is a different day the atmosphere is altogether different I will tell you and this will add on from the par class there's a beautiful Insight of is talking about the animal in us all week long there's an animal it is drive and craving and ambition it's busy it's distracted it's advancing it's progressing all week long there's an animal in us the call shabas it's the day of the we have a that is our Nish is on fire why because we have much more subjugated we've much more shrunk our animal impulse our animal Soul it's a it's the day of the so this is not talking about the ox or the donkey or the cat or the dog in our home it means the animal in US nourish and express the soul in you and on shabas the day of soul the day of the expanded Soul a little bit less of the animal Soul the animal impulse the animal Instinct the animal anger the animal arrogance the animal Envy the animal reaction it's a day y it's a day of the it's not a day of the animal let it rest let it rest your drive your ambition let it rest your anger let it rest your animal in you it's a day that we let the animal in US rest so we need to hear good thing shab should be a shabas that we can let the animal rest should be a shabas that the atmosphere is transformed and changed that even the animal can pick up on it should be a shabas which isab the world [Music] say [Applause]