Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #226

Good Arab Shabas. Today is not Friday. Today is Shabas. And even though it is Arab Shabasone the Shabas before tish still of Shabas and Shabas is unique and distinct. That means Friday is not Friday. Even if we can't shave and get a haircut and even if we can't we find ourselves in the nine days we still can turn it into Arab Shabas the holiest day of the week. A day of ghoul a day of redemption even within the darkness of this exile. I want to thank our dear friends many our sponsors to turn Friday into Shabas in memory of rever Jonathan Sax we have in our para that even though spoke to us and he said it's not it's says to as we spoke in the para class says of that even from a place of even within the nine days even within the sadness and the destruction even within the Jewish tradition in this world. Even within all of the news, which is so devastating, nevertheless, Shabas Shabas, we can find Shabas. And Shabas is that oasis. Shabas is that place of refuge. Shabas is that place of gula. Even within the gullus, we don't have the physical mikdash, but we have the mikdash not in space, but we have the mikdash in time. And the mikdash in time is called shabas. And that's what we're doing is getting ready and counting up and turning our Friday, not from a mundane Friday, a Friday of exile. diaspora, a Friday of sad and bad news into an air of shabas, an air of a time of redemption and joy, a time of connection to we've learned many times the says that's how we know we have an way that we know that we have an additional an expanded a more awake a more aware a more sensitive soul on shabas we get that extra soul from vina we rested vi of the sadness that the additional soul takes leave. It departs. We have to comfort ourselves with because we lose that nish and the bashto of theasha asked the famous question. If we're learning about acquiring, if we're learning about getting a new nish, an expanded nish on Shabas at the onset of Shabas, why do we learn it from of the loss of the ones Shabas asked that question? He gives an answer. have given many answers but I want to tell you the answer of the of whose yard is on the he says the following is the very he says it doesn't say what's the it's not the it's not woe and the sadness of losing the it's that on shabas the nishama loses the sense of II all week long we read the news the prime minister of France the prime minister of England threats against Israel about declaring Palestinians you see the newsman the loss of heroic angelic soldiers all week long there's bad news and so there's a sense of vo of wo of sadness of fear of concern but come shabas and we immerse ourselves in shabas and we find refuge in shabas safety and security in shabas we find redemption In Shabas we get a taste of Shabas. So shabas the vi of the nephesh the nephesh loses the sense of ovi and if that's true all year long that the week we walk through with a sense of o and shabas were able to be able to recover with a sense of then it's certainly true this shabas this shab which is on the beginning on the cusp on the brink of tish of mo shabas we're going to sit on the floor we're going to cry our eyes out not only for the destruction of the tubate mikdash and not only for the inquisition and the expulsions and the Holocaust and not only for October 7th and not only for the continued loss of precious life, but all the individual calamity and tragedy and suffering, all the loss of potential of what could have been, what should have been. We're going to sit on the floor. We're going to cry. We're going to mourn. We're going to grieve. But right before we do, we have Shabas. Right before we do, we're able to elevate. We're able to tap into the beauty and the holiness and the ha of Shabas. And this is no ordinary Shabas. That same lublin taught that the same way that the afternoon is a time of judgment. And that's why is it's the holiest time of the week. It's the ultimate will of Hashem. He expresses it during that time of judgment of justice of din says the shabas of the whole shabas is the the whole shabas is a time of chuva the whole shabas is a time of so you might think that normally what do we do on onish normally on era of tishabove you have a sudakis normally on tishab you have a special a special meal in which you uh have bread and ash and water minimal sit apart no zon sitting on the floor but the says expands this year is there's no because it's shabas leading into and what is there you could drink wine and you could eat meat and in fact if you are you shouldn't stop because you shouldn't demonstrate or display any mourning or grief you have to continue just like the king would eat that means that even though ordinarily we're already beginning to bring in the feeling of loss and grief of destruction of tishab when a shabas shabas is gula before the gullis it prepares us it gives it gets us ready it energizes us it gives us hope and optimism it's a taste of that world to come and of what we're going to and we could have and so as we go into this special shabas of shabasone have a kazone have a vision of what your shabas could look like a shabas that's a shabas that's all it's a time of that in this that we're going through Israel. Let it be an let us not sit on the floor. Instead, let us welcome Msiah in the building of the third Bdash. Let the Shabas let the gu let the sanctity in time bring us to a place of sanctity in space. Let it be a shabas that we don't have to go back to a place of vo but v of the neesh. Let our nephesh lose that sense of vo not only on shabas but all week long. Let it be a shabas in which we hear beshu. So turn your Friday into er of Shabas by getting ready for an extraordinary Shabas that reminds us of the holiness and sanctity and singularity of Shabas that we can even meet and drink wine all the way through Shabash. There is no nine days on Shabas. There's no air of tishab on Shabas. There's Shabas which is gula. It's the opposite of galas should lift us and get us readym bring us to a place a permanent place of aula amites. We're back off for a few weeks, but look forward to resuming at the end of August.