Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #224 - The Most Important Ingredient in the Challah

[Music] Oh, so you know [Music] I'm [Music] Welcome to Turn back. Turn Friday into Arab Shabas. Today is not Friday. It is in fact Shabas. Want to thank our general sponsors and memory lord Jonathan Saxi Ben David. It may say it may feel like it's Friday. Your calendar may say Friday but it's not Friday. For a Y for a Jew it's of Shabas. We spoke last week about the construct of the monora. We climb climb climb. Shabas is the peak the pinnacle the climax of the week and then we come down. Havda Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of Shabas. So we are on the cusp of the peak, the pinnacle of the week. We're on the cusp of Shabas that is not Friday. It is in fact of Shabas. And I want to share with you about the mitzvah of our parl has at the end the mitzvah of it's very interesting because the mitzvah taking separating a part of the dough whether it's for bread, whether it's for misonos, whether it's for a cake or cookie, kala has to be taken if it meets all the criteria, all the measurements, all the requisite amounts. And yet and yet we call the bread that we eat on Shabas the we call did you bake the where'd you get the the is delicious what's on this why do we call the bread of shabas why do we call it kala the truth is kala applies Sunday through Friday doesn't only apply at the pizza store the one who's making the dough has got to take kala the bagel store you got to take kala you got to take kala if you're regularly making bread it doesn't only apply to shabas and yet shabas is when we call that bread kala so those Torah quotes in his very beautiful reason because there's a special quality the is so special so beloved to Hashem indeed the med tells us it's one of the reasons that the entire world was created because the merit of three things the whole world was created And the first of your do and because of first the world was created and that is the mitzvah and that's why he says women are cautioned or warned women are empowered women are tasked with separating the that's what we say on Friday night for three a mistakes or failures women suffer for a consequence if they're not careful. So you see that this is a critical critical mitzvah, a beautiful mitzvah. It's a mitzvah for which there's health and life and longevity. It is the reason the world was created. So people should be eager and run to takea to take kala. So people who buy bread for all the rest of the week, they don't break bake their own loaves of bread. I've never eaten a loaf of bread that was baked in my home the rest of the week. But every Shabas, my wife makes the most incredible, the greatest kala anyone makes anywhere, any time. Because one of the ways that we honor Shabas, one of the ways that we elevate Shabas is through the mitzvah of Kala. Such a sacred, such a holy, such an elevated mitzvah, a mitzvah that in its merit the whole world was created. And therefore the bread of Shabasala in order to remind in order to remember do the mitzvah of bake and do the mitzvah of because it's the merit and the mitzvah of that things are so elevated are so holy. The writes he quotes from because it is a person sets their table for Shabas and this they baked and this bread through which they in that home fulfilled the mitzvah of it's through that that the table is blessed all six days of the week. If we want the parnasa to flow, if we want the table to be a place of great blessing, the people, the health, the longevity, the company, the family, the food, the delicacy, if we want the bra to flow at that table, then it should be a table that on Shabas holds the kala from which the mitzvah of kala was done says of so therefore therefore we call the bread of shabas not just bread but we call it even though the mitzvah of kala applies all the time we call it the mitzvah of kala It's in that merit. It's in that merit that the whole world was the whole world was created. The whole world was created. Kazal reinforced the idea that mitzval brings great into our lives. Rifka continued the tradition of eu that the blessing was found in her bread. When took Rifka back into his tent and the continued miracles of his mother Sah that was affirmation validation. That's how he knew she was the one. The pin the pin of that doesn't mean S's dough was large. Shouldn't have cinnamon. Shouldn't have everything sprinkles on top. It wasn't cooked through and through or undercooked for the people who like it doughy. It means what does it mean that Isa says it means that her happy and cheerful and loving disposition were the critical ingredients. If someone takes a bite of your kala and says, "Oh, that's delicious." What's in this kala? You know what the answer is? love, happiness, goodness, hope, amuna, unity to feel a sense of with yes kala, flour, water, cinnamon, whatever is in the particular, you can mention the ingredients, but those aren't the most important because when a someone person is angry or bitter or divisive, that's also tasted in the kala. So says means the of the person who's making who's kneading the person who is braiding that kala baking that kala their love is the most important ingredient their hope their faith their their unity when our children need to taste in the kala the spirit of togetherness the shabas meals that's the mitzvah of kala why is unity the mitzvah so theb says you know normally when the farmer is making the kala they're harvesting something new with kala nothing has been created. We're taking little pieces, little particles of flour and now we created a mitzvah just by mixing together something that's not new. We need the flour, the particles, it creates a dough and from that we take the kala and that's a mitzvah. So the shamish writes that when we take a piece of that food of kala, we give it to the coen, we're repairing the damage of the division to we don't have to create or invent or build something new in order to find holiness. Just bring things together that exist already. That's holiness. So kala comes from d. Dough are particles of flour that are brought together by the water and kneaded into a dough. So represents a and unity. We overcome we repair the damage of divisiveness. So the moragum they sow division and the same para we have the mitzvah of because kala is the symbol the conduit of unity. So as we turn our Friday into shabas as we're preparing and baking or buying nobody should feel bad. We're not sitting in judgment of anybody. We're not judging anybody who didn't bake their own kala. Even if you buy a kala but nevertheless a person should go in with the mentality person should go in with we're going to bring the braha to our table like Rifka continued from Sah we're going to create an ais and think of our brothers and sisters in Israel and in that of the kala shall have a beautiful holy shabas in here was