Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #232 - Every Friday is Like Erev Yom Kippur

Oh y [Music] [Applause] [Music] >> today may feel like Friday. I don't know what today feels like. Maybe it feels like Sunday. It feels like Friday. These days it's hard to know what it feels like but it's not Friday. In fact, it's Mote Yamiper and it's Arab Shabas. A beautiful bridge between two holy holy days. Yum Kipper the Helga holiest Shabas and Shabas Kuresh following on its heels and sandwiched in between bookended on both sides is this very special day and we're here to turn it from Friday into Shabas. I want to thank our dear friends many of fishman for sponsoring us in memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sax or Yakot Ben Ary this uh today's turn of Shabas is also sponsored by Elis Cohen on the earth side of Elanor Becker Elia Ela Ba Basor Cohen which will be tomorrow on Chabas itself. I hope everyone had a beautiful and meaningful and uplifting and a purifying yum kipper a meaningful and easy fast and a day that transformed us. This is the beginning, the first day of the rest of our lives and it is on an air of shabas of Shabas. What I want to share with you today is that even though we're coming off of Yumiper and we think that we're pure and we think that everything is well and good of Shabas is still a time of chuva. You might think, what if I didn't? What if I didn't take advantage of every moment? What if I didn't maximize the experience? know that every single week when it comes to Shabas, when we turn our fight into Shabas, we once again tap into the possibility of using it for and towards Chuva. And even though Yamiper was just yesterday, you know, in the we say the regular, of course, week and of course they always ask why what did we do? We just came off and assuming that our accepted they were mara so we are pure. We are forgiven. So if we're forgiven, why do we have to ask for forgiveness right away in the mar right after yum kipper? So some say it's the relief that yum kipper is over whatever the reason is and re-entering the world. But know that whatever mistakes were made already when we turn our Friday into Shabas, it's another chance of vimipper. And I want to quote it to you now from Morai the great Mr. the great inn was buried in Bushna and visited this summer his ke in Ukraine. Any Jew who doesn't feel an Arab shabas like it's and that Friday night is like a Jew who doesn't feel that every Friday is like and every Friday night is like night doesn't know what Jabas is all about. Now on the one hand why do we need we just had it. On the other because we just had it we know exactly what it feels like and therefore we can bring that feeling to our of Shabas and to our Friday night. It means that Shabas is pregnant with such possibility of chuva. Shabas is renewal and refresh and reboot. Shabas is start again. Shabas has wiped the slate clean. Shabas is a whole new week filled with possibility of drive of raton and the chuva the purity that comes with that. Shabas is chuva writes the today the beautiful safer that we're learning together that shabas it's one of the precious times of chuva as it says in the quotes there are four major times of chuva during the year every night before we go to sleep we forgive and ask forgiveness and of shamas. Those are the four times every night before we go to sleeper and shabas. It means that every Friday is the shab every of shabas. Every Friday is like yum kipper. So you had a bad week, you messed up, you made mistakes, you gave in. And it could be that over the last few hours we came off of yum kipper last night. Top of the world promised and pledged never getting angry again, never losing my cool again, never being impatient again. And lo and behold, someone didn't put their postf fast dish back in the sink. Lo and behold, we asked for help building the suka kipper. Nobody jumped up to help us. And we lost our cool, our patience. Have no fear. You don't have to wait until next kipper. You don't have to wait a whole year ahead. Every shab a Jew who doesn't feel that shabas is like and that Friday night is like mid night, doesn't know the kaduca, doesn't know the sanctity, doesn't know the possibility of shabas. Shabas is transformative. Shabas has that capacity. He quotes here from the base of and from that even with them the non-Jewish housekeepers they help at home knew they felt something different in the air a different atmosphere. says they went into the kitchen and they saw that the help was asking each other for forgiveness making amends reconciling coming together as if it was maybe this week I lost my cool maybe this week I yelled before you go home for the weekend before you take off for the weekend I'm sorry about this week are we good all good like an because if there's tension if there's anger in the error, it detracts, it diminishes the sanctity of Shabas. So we have this possibility that every week, you don't have to wait till next era of Yumiper. You don't have to wait an entire year. Every week with Shabas, we have the possibility of forgiveness, of repentance, of repair, of renewal, of doing it all again, of taking it from the top. And that's the we have with love and that falls on Shabas. The notion of Shabas is filled with love and forgiveness and flexibility. So Shabas is like we're asking for forgiveness. We're letting things go. We're earning. We're coming together and we're connecting to be able to do it all again. So even though we just came off of Yum Kipper, we need an air of Shabas. And this is a holy air of Shabas. It's an Arab of Shabas sandwich between Yumiper and Shabas. So wishing everybody a good wishing everyone a beautiful, beautiful holy Shabas, a healthy Shabas, a Shabas of miracles, a Shabas of gratitude, Shabas of bisuros to a Shabas of good things, of redemption for Hashem. We have to celebrate and we have to anticipate and we have to be grateful for what is. Wishing everyone a beautiful, beautiful Shabas. [Music]