Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #220 -Shut Off the Noise and Wake Up the Neshama

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Today is not Friday of Shabas. turning on Friday into Shabas and so happy that you are with me as we're climbing that mountain and counting up to Kabala's hat and we do that through Shabas Shabasosimos doesn't just mean seven complete weeks of counting it means shabasos that we observe we keep we experience seven shabases that are timos these aren't ordinary Shabases or ordinary weeks these are shabases that are tim they're extraordinary they're complete they're whole they're pure so these shabases all the shabases of the year are special these shabases are particular particularly special as their want to thank our very generous sponsors of turn into shabas our dear friends and support me sax as we're trying to observe these shabases that are tim I want to learn with you a beautiful piece that came out from shore mori and his hashab the new newsletter that he's been providing and we've learned parts of this before but it's a new insight and a new breakthrough in it one that is particularly relevant the Torah the garra rather tells us the word vi of the nephesh don't read the word rested on the seventh day but v of the ne the word vi means o wo wo unto me that I lost my soul my extra soul and the gar is based on this that on shabas we are endowed with an extra soul is we spent many many many of our turn Friday into shabas trying to share different interpretations understandings perspectives on what it means to have an isma that A soul that is expanded. A soul that is picking up the signal. A soul that is open. A soul that is inspired. A soul that is elevated. Shabas is at the beginning of Shabas. So why would we learn about the about the extra soul that we have and the fact that woe onto me for losing the extra soul? When do we lose the additional soul on mo shabas? Onra of shabas we get the extra soul extra on shabas we go into shabas endowed with the additional soul. So we should learn from a ones shabas. In fact that's why we use basim at abdah we use the bim in order to comfort ourselves strengthen ourselves from the loss of that just like the nishama first came to us through our nostrils through our nose. God breathed life into us when we lose the extra soul through our nostrils. So we take in the pleasant bim in order to comfort in order to strengthen ourselves for the loss of that additional soul. So one we lose the additional soul shabas. So the lim we should learn that you have this was the question writes quote every shabas there is the light that is still glowing the light that is still illuminating from that light that comes in that inspiration that message that signal that we pick up is still coming from the The signal was so strong as we stood at the mountain of hem spoke to us directly he spoke to us. So that signal was so strong straight from him. It continues. It continues continues to come. the following. When the comes, when we are awake and alive, when we are aroused, when we are inspired, when we feel what it means to have an that's plugged in, that's tuned in, that's alive. Now, we say, "Where's it been? What happened? Why is it only right now?" If a person doesn't feel well, they're under the weather and they feel better. It's the feeling better. They go, "Oh my goodness, only now do I realize how not well I felt now that my energy is back. Now that I can breathe again, now that I'm feeling better, only now do I realize what was wrong and what was missing." When we have the nish, we realize, why is it only on chabas? I see clarity. I see truth. I feel confidence. Why is it only on Shabas that I'm present and I'm mindful and is not competing with tasks and to do and technology and this world. The it's the presence of the gives us the clarity of what was missing. Shabas when Shabas comes we say six days a week I was walking around in a haze for six days I've been in a fog for six days my sh's been struggling to pick up the signal and now the h is shabasem shabas has come I turned off the technology and all that noise now I can finally hear now I can think now I can be vanesh so that's why it's not on mo shabas that we feel and and are said about the nish leaving. It's an air of shabas when the nash comes that we realize wah now I know what it means to be awake alive now I know what it means to be feeling now I know what it means to be inspired where has that been six days I've been in a coma six days I've been numb six days my has been competing for attention and now I know what it means to have not that I lost from shabas says of that all week long I lost my all week long Man, maybe he was looking at schmutz. Maybe was slacking or lacking. Maybe was underperforming and underachieving all week long. Man was struggling. It couldn't pick up the signal now that I have an iss a yearning and a and a will and a drive. more money, more things, more success, more fun, more all of a sudden comes Shabas and we realize I can direct my Shabas is the time of Shabas. And so when Shabas comes in, we should have a clarity. Shabas comes in, no more static and no more noise. Shabas comes in, we're picking up the signal v of the neesh. was missing all week long. Now we have an abundance on Shabasimos. So what this means is that to experience whole and complete and timos shabas what that means is that Friday today we turn our Friday into shabas withdraw pull back from the world whether it's through topha shabas bring shabas in early but disconnect to connect already begin to feel the extra nishama coming in early disconnect technology to-do tasks noise static disconnect from all of that so the nishama can be nourished it can feel nish can blossom. That's what it means to turn Friday into a shabas. We turn Friday into arav shabas by removing and eliminating the static and the noise can be begin to feel the extra break out of that funk and that fog that numbness and that coma. Break out of the nishama competing for attention and priorities. Let let the nishama be central. Let the nama be primary. What does that mean? Means Friday afternoon marbedra learn the parasha prepare advor means Friday stop listening to whatever else you're listening to comedy or podcast put on something kadosh put on holy music that moves and stirs the nishama put on a shir something to prepare you for shabas it means that the nisha on Friday afternoon we turn Friday into shabas by already releasing the nishama so that it can feel it can grow large and big we should be z for these shabases we're running out two more that are shva These shabases that are whole and complete and holy and healthy should be a shabas that brings with it for us. [Music] It's all I [Music]