Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #229 - Say L'Kavod Shabbos Kodesh Out Loud

Rosabas. [Music] Get Shabas. Today is not Friday. Today is Shabas and we are turning our Friday into Shabas. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for listening and learning together. Thank you for connecting to the holy shabas. It means the world to me. And I want to thank our generous series sponsors yet again in memory of Jonathan Sax. I remain very indebted to my dear friends. We spoke last week, we last left off about Shabas being with a sense of sim that if you're going to do it already, if you're going to shop, if you shop, if you're going to cook, if you're going to clean, if you're going to set a table, if you're going to prepare, if you're going to get ready, do a bima. do it. You elevate the entire experience. Not going to get into it now. It happens to be this week's par all of the horrible, horrific, terrible things that come to us are it's because we didn't serve Hashem with there's a notion counts it as a mitzvah. Others do as well. This the in the mitzvah when you're doing a mitzvah, don't miserably check off. I did it fine. I took out the garbage. Are you happy now? If you're going to take out the garbage for someone who asked, do it with a do with a joy. Do it with gratitude. Do it with commitment. Do it with devotion. And that's what we saw doesn't say should be with a sense of it shouldn't be with a negativity or and that's all of our because if you don't, there's something missing. There's something happens. And it's true in all of our relationships. If we ask one another to do things, you ask your spouse, you ask your child, your child asks you. If you drive them where they want to go, but you're miserable, you tell them all along how you're miserable and you can't believe it. You were already in your pajamas and you had to get dressed and it's raining and you didn't want to go and you want if you're going to do it already, do it with a smile. Do it with joy. Do it in a way that makes the other person feel good. And the same is true in the atmosphere and the environment that we create and the way we get ready for Shabas. We're learning this beautiful safer of the Shabas. One of the ways to be mindful, to elevate, to be with a sense of is everything that you're doing for Shabas, articulate, say it out loud. I'm shopping right now. Could be your shopping on Monday or Tuesday. We saw said when is Shabas? As soon as you make as soon as you made for one Shabas, you're already your mind you're getting ready for the next Shabas. But okay, we hold on a Wednesday morning. Wednesday, Thursday, you're shopping. If you bought more toothpaste, you don't say kesh for the toothpaste. Maybe it's Shabas toothpaste. But if you're buying the piece of meat, if you're buying the package of chicken, if you're buying the ingredients, if you're buying the candles, if you're buying the thing that you're needing for Shabas, elevate even the mundane shopping, when you swipe that credit card, certainly when you swipe that credit card because tell us, our rabbis tell us that whatever we spend the what we spend on Shabas doesn't come out of the of what Hashem has determined we get on Rash. Of course, that's within reason, too. If you buy first cut corn beef and fancy bottles of wine and scotch and shakureri boards, if you go overboard, I'm not sure that that promise is included. But if you buy what's in reason then so you say as you swipe the credit card if you're deciding which account you're doing the bookkeeping on this expenditure. Imagine imagine the cash the the cashier says I'm sorry what was that? You said, "Oh, no." I said, "What I'm buying, I'm swiping my credit card. What I'm spending with a smile is to honor the holy Sabbath. Is to honor the holy shabas. I'm setting the table. I'm putting the tablecloth in the washing machine to get it ready to by speaking you create reality." It's not a coincidence. He doesn't bring this down. said it in others. The word to speak is the same root as the word davar a thing. We speak and we create reality from comes a davarim are things. A davar is a thing. Abor you create reality with our speech. So when you say and you endow and you imbue the soda bottles that you're shleing. So now the soda bottles are are vessels of kadusha shabas. The chicken is a vessel Shabas. The ingredients, the laundry machine that washed the tablecloths that you'll use for Shabas. When you press start now, your laundry machine, your dryer became a vessel with Shabas. It's brought down in the when a person is preparing don't just say quote the whole on the sixth day prepare everything that you're going to bring that there is this idea of shabas of shabas and and that we create we imbue we endow when you're making the potato kougal we saw we quoted once I think it was from the reds that you make the potatoes Now, there's Shabas in the in the potato cook. Whatever you're cooking, whatever ingredients you're buying, when you're swiping the credit card, when you're setting the table, when you're pressing start in the washing machine, and you are elevating the whole experience, it's changing and it takes you, you can't say miserably. You ruin something if you do it that way. Your child asks you to drive them. Your spouse asks you to take out the garbage or do something, move it from the laundry machine to the dryer, fold the lawn. If you do it, I'm doing it for you. You I'm doing it for you. That's the only reason I'm doing it. You took away the whole thing. You took it all away. You try to make the other person feel guilty or feel bad they asked you. If you're doing it, I'm doing this for us. I'm doing this because it's meaningful. It's bringing us closer. I'm doing it because I'm I'm taking this physical act and elevating by doing it with the right reason and the right intent and the right mindfulness. So don't say, "I'm only spending all this money for your shabas. I wish I didn't have to. I want to go on vacation." You're going to say, say everything that we do. And by doing that, we turn on Thursday night, our Friday, our every day, we turn it into we turn Friday into May we hear only God. Heat. [Applause] [Music]