Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #214 - Add on to Shabbos Quantitatively and Qualitatively

God. [Music] Good Arab Shabas everyone. Today is not Friday. Today is Arab Shabas and we are turning our Friday into Arab Shabas with huge thanks to our generous series sponsors our dear friends and in memory of Rabbi Rabbi Lord Jonathan Saxs of Jacob Ben David. It is another era of Shabas and there are only two Shabbas left before P which is perfect because tells the Shabas if the Jewish people would only observe but only keep two Shabases immediately we'd be redeemed and we've shared countless interpretations. What are these two Shabases? Shabas Kazone and Shabas Nakamu Shabashua and Shabas Hagod. There's so many interpretations but happens to be there are two shabases left before pes pes is the kaga the of redemption who doesn't want redemption we want our hostages home we want our soldiers safe so many people are suffering and struggling personally individually we all need redemption and the way to bring it is through shabas shabas and I think we can understand this in two different ways one in the merit of the observance of shabas we will be able to bring msiach will bring what is a great redemption But the other is much more simply that if we lean into and observe, if we truly experience shabas, we are immediately redeemed whatever it is in the weekday, the work, the to-do, the task, the technology, whatever is weighing us down, whatever is sitting on our shoulders. But if a person could leave it all and disconnect and turn Friday into Arab Shabas, put on joyful music, be prepared, set a table, shower, get dressed, let the aura and air, let the aroma of be everywhere. Miadig'll be redeemed. It'll all be waiting after Abdullah. Shabas doesn't magically make problems go away. It doesn't heal the sick or bring the baby or make the shik. Shab doesn't make the challenges go away. But Shabas gives a reprieve. Shabas is an ear mikla. Shabas gives us a little break. Shabas gives us a little redemption. It is. So if we would observe two shabases man one of the two we have two shabases this month of gul in the leading up to the holiday the of gula we have two shabases left and we can observe those shabas but not observe them just in any way the said that there's a tremendous merit a tremendous a very deep idea he brings in a safer many times in the name of his father the imm that when a person the way to show that we love Shabas, we elevate Shabas is to spend more Shabas, more Shabas. If you diminish Shabas, if you lessen Shabas, if you leave Shabas, if you never fully really enter Shabas, if you can't wait for Shabas to end, if you dare before this man, so you can make Abdullah at the first opportunity, you don't really love Shabas. But if you take Shabas in a little bit early and you hold on to Shabas a little bit late to I don't want this time to end. Many are spending pesak with family and you don't want family particularly children, grandchildren. We bless those who are waiting and longing to have children, grandchildren. You don't want them to ever leave. Just stay a little bit longer. Let's just connect a little bit more. Let's let the vacation last just a little bit extra. Shabas is that vacation that spiritual physical vacation we disconnect from the world to connect to what matters. to shabas to bring it in a little early to hold on to it a little bit late quotes from his father the immabus is the formula prescription it is the way to be able to achieve atonement to repair the m that we've made to overcome the failures and the shortcomings to bring a sense of redemption even though shabas comes automatically shabas comes on time ready or not here it comes but we still have a chance to still make our own shabases We could transform the v the weekday the mundane into the sacred into the holy. We can elevate. We can transform when we take Friday and we turn it into shabas low that when we are elevate shabas we make it even more special. when quotes he makes a very important point and he says the following there's another critical important point when it comes to these two shabases if only we would observe two shabases we could bring about our we could unshackle ourselves we could redeem ourselves we can let go and let Hashem we could connect to ourselves the people around us and to him we can free ourselves and find refuge from what are the tasks and the to-dos and the troubles of the week. They'll be there. We'll go back to them. But Miyad and get a sense of a gula. Shabas brings a gula. Don't talk about the topics. Don't proceverate on the things. Don't be weighed down. Don't think or go there. Speak about happy topics. Challenge ourselves to broaden our horizons and grow. Sing miros and laugh and tell stories and play games and learn and sleep and rest that restores the soul. It brings the gula. But to shabas with the quotes from his father is not only talking about bringing Shabas in early and holding on to it a little bit later but says adding on there is an there's an idea of extra Shabas in quantity but there's also an idea of adding on to Shabas in quality in quality not just adding on to Shabas in quantity bring it in early and hold on to it a little bit late but changing and adding on to Shabas not only quantity but also quality quality quality. What is the quality? We have two Shabases left PES. What is the quality of our Shabas? Are we wearing Shabas clothing? Do we prepare Shabas Vto? Do we set a Shabas table? Do we prepare Shabas foods? Are we looking forward to Shabas and counting up towards it? Are we taking on a little bit more an extra of it? Are we enjoying it and speaking about it and loving it? Not only to add on to Shabas quantitatively, but to add on to Shabas qualitatively as well. How do you do that? says says the Israel six days you work and on the seventh day on the seventh day she says once Shabas comes person should feel all my work is done now why am I sharing that with you this week because there's so much work got to p shop for pes cook for got to cook up to you got to prepare for the so much People have to pack. They're traveling. They're going. There's so much that has to be done. But Shabas comes. There's no work. When Shabas comes, all our work is done. All our work is done. Get on board. Hear that the Shabas? All our work is done. Don't talk this shabas about when are we capturing, what are we making, what recipes, what are we cooking, will we be ready, what needs to get done, who's picking us up, who's giving us a ride to the airport, who's taking us, who's packing, who's Shabas comes, all of our work is done. So this time of the year, the two Shabas is before Pes, there is so much work to do, so much to be sold, so many drushes to prepare, so much work to do. Nevertheless, person should enter Shabas. the way that we can tophe Shabas add on to Shabas not only quantitatively but qualitatively we can add on by feeling that all of our work is done and if we do that if we add on to Shabas quantitatively qualitatively we immerse oursel in it and that gula we're so desperate for we long for and Hashem should please God give it and bring it and we wait for it but until then we can get little snippets little breaks little reprieves of gula by truly immersing ourselves in shabas take advantage two shabases If we'd only observe in quantitatively and qualitatively these two shabases, we would truly be redeemed. Have a happy, a healthy, a holy, a very, very beautiful Shabas. Shabhu. [Music] It's all