Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #231 - The Power of the 1st Shabbos of the Year

Oh y [Music] I'm giving our [Applause] [Music] fifth day of Shabas of the new year. >> Very exciting. It's the first day of Shabas of the new year, but today is not Friday. It may feel like Friday. Your calendar may say Friday, but today is not Friday. Today is in fact Shabas. And we are here to turn our Friday into Shabas. I want to thank our generous series sponsors in memory of Revelator Jonathan Zach of Yaki Ben David. This is the very first Shabas of the year and everything follows the beginning. Everything goes after the first. This is the first and not only is it the first, it is significant because it is in the middle of the bring down. We know between kipper there are exactly seven days which means one week which means there is a day corresponding with every day of the week and the attitude what we bring to that day repairs for whatever perhaps we neglected the whole year before and it sets us up it puts us on track for that day of the week for the whole year that will be so today is not Friday this Friday of these seven days between the Friday of isra of shabas and if we treat the Friday like of shabas then it's as if every Friday the whole year was an air of Shabas. We're setting ourselves up. This is the very first Shabas. The attitude, the energy, the enthusiasm. We're exhausted. It was mish. We just made Abdullah and it's already from Abdullah Gdalia of Shabas. Trust me, the people who have to cook and the people who have to cook a shabasha know well what a short week it is. And in many ways, we're tired. We're exhausted. Who's in the mood for sha? I'm in the mood for shabas. We're getting ready. Schlakadr says that each day of Mituva moves with greater intensity and greater intensity. And as we move further along, we're more and more intense. The date we come before the judge, it's coming closer and closer. We've got to prepare. We got to make our case. We got to put our argument together. We've got to prove ourselves worthy so that we can persevere. You know, I was thinking as a big Indian that Shabas is a time of chuva. We've learned a lot about that in turn Friday into Shabas. The idea that when we wash, we're not just showering physically, but we're showering and cleansing and removing all of the sin and iniquity, the blemishes that are on us. Don't just check your clothing, check your rebelliousness on Shabas. The idea that Shabas is a time of chuva because after all, Adam first came in the world on Friday and he made his mistake and we have a chance to maki to repair to fix that. That's true each and every shabas. Shabas is mashuva. It's the same letters, Shabas and Chuva. It's the same idea. We return, we restore, we come back to our roots, we center, we ground ourselves. Shabas is a time of chuva. But the shabas of chuva shabas chuva is especially a time of chuva. And the rest of the week, we need we're waking up in an ungodly hour, the middle of the night. It's pitch blackout and we need in order to get us going. Shabas, if you want, you could sleep in. Go to a late minion on Shabas. Ah, don't you need where's the mu? Where are all the components and ingredients? Where are all the tools that we're using and utilizing the rest of in order to make sure we're ready? The answer is you don't need it on Shabas. Shabas itself is an environment. Shabas is an atmosphere. Shabas gets us ready. So you don't need you don't have any. You don't have to wake up in the middle of the night. You have to lean into Shabas. Sing, love, live, be present, learn, davin. Experience the beauty of Shabas to Shabas. This Shabas, take it in early. Be ready early. Hold on to it a little bit later. Don't be in a rush. Don't run to get back to the week. Show even in a week, a short week. That was rush. Next week, a short week before and a short week after. It doesn't matter. We can't get enough shabas. Torah says take things with you. Says seems extra. It should say take and return means the answer is inside us. Like the answer is inside us all along. If we lean into, tap into, if we love Shabas, we learned a few weeks ago when you're buying the ingredients, setting the table, getting dressed, all the preparation for Shabas, the Shabases at the checkout at the supermarket, if the non-Jewish checkout person doesn't beat you to it. We got that story. Then the chavas kaidesh it's in us to bring the attitude and the energy of the kavas kesh to chuva the return the repentance to reboot to restart to restore shabas and the shabas of the shabas of shabuva what we could accomplish and what we could achieve together we've been learning the beautiful safer of the of and we'll end with this he says Friday corresponds with the mid One of the designated times, one of the most auspicious times on the calendar to do chuva is if we looked at the wrong thing, if we acted out in the wrong way, if we indulge the wrong temptation or yearning or desire, go to mikvah, cut the nails, cut the hair, wash, all of these are are cleansing and are purifying. But and the it's a tole those big bottles of soda and water to mop that floor to cook to set that table it's a there's a in getting ready for shabas every ounce of every ounce of effort and initiative is in itself a kapara a it repairs specifically it's a time of chuva so let's lean in let's take advantage the first shabas this is it everything goes after the first the very first shabas of the year. May it be a beautiful Shabas, a healthy Shabas, a holy Shabas. May it be a healing Shabas. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat.