Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #234 - For 24 Hours We Have Everything

our [music] >> welcome back Friday. You may look and think it's Friday, but today is not. Fact Friday today is the holy shabas our turn Friday of Shabas series is generously sponsored by mending fish in memory of reabon Ben David Ary and we are getting ready for a shabas shabas the mccor shabas the source of all our first shabas after a full week in a long time and even though we should get excited for each and every shabas perhaps this shabas after a week in between we're even more appreciative and the chance the opportunity to turn to Shabas, to find refuge in Shabas, to be reinvigorated in Shabas, to disconnect and to connect to what matters all in Shabas. I want to share with you a beautiful teaching, a beautiful teaching for the Shalom on the P that we read not only in last week's parish that started it all, but it's a P that we read each and every week in the we say God completed the heavens and the earth. and he finished on the seventh day. Rashi writes, "What was the world missing? What was lacking? What still needed to come?" The way the Torah describes, the way the Torah depicts, it's not just that he worked six days and then stopped and ceased and rested on the seventh. It's as if by resting on the seventh, he created something new. Stopping to work and being at rest was itself an act of creation. So, what was missing that he created? What was wrong with just having this creative cycle of the six days? Why did he need a seventh day where he rested? Says what was missing. What was missing was rest, serenity, tranquility, being at peace, stopping, ceasing, just being instead of doing. Be a human being, not a human doing. Bashabas. Shabas comes and with it it brings a serenity. And the holy says the truth is that if you want to be able to feel serenity and peace, if you want to be able to sometimes be at rest, it comes from the mid of his capacity to say enough. Six days a week, six days a week, we are conquerors. We are hunters. We go control, manipulate, learn and understand this world. We invent, we create entrepreneurship. And on the seventh day, his stopus, what I have enough. I'm good to go. What I have is everything. The capacity to say I'm satisfied with what I have. I have the capacity to be, not always to have to do. That's called coal. That's what's he created on the seventh day was the notion of coal of his sense that I have everything I need. And then and only then and only then can we be at peace because when we have enough if we want if we want real rest you know six days a week I got emails to return phone calls to return WhatsApp to get back to I have a to-do list and an inbox I have dreams and aspirations and goals I have work and work and work six days a week ambition and drive and doing and running, but you could run yourself ragged. The seventh day, if you want shabas, shabas comes and with it brings rest. In general, having an insatiable drive and appetite, lacking the capacity to ever cut it off and say, "I can rest. I can celebrate. I can pause. I can appreciate what I have. And what I have is good. And for a little bit I can just celebrate what I've accomplished and I've achieved and who I am without having to do more. And this comes from a feeling that Hashem has provided. I'm only with Hashem can we feel that coal is the Yakov. When Yakov reunites with his brother as says Rav, I have a lot. I have a lot. I have a lot. I have a lot of good things. Nice decent house, nice car. I've got a lot. How are you, brother? He says to Jacob. YaKob says me? Oo. Yes. Cole. Not I have a lot. I have everything. I have everything because by definition what I have is what I need. I have everything because it comes from Hashem. So the whole time that a person lacks that I have everything. As long as you're in that perpetual and endless quest for more, then you don't have peace. You don't have peace of mind. You don't have serenity. You don't have you have sadness and you're chasing and you're running and you're on the hamster wheel of life. But one day a week for 25 hours we disconnect. For 25 hours we say I have everything what God embedded and put into that seventh day is the capacity to say and that is the core of the capacity to have to have serenity. That's what we sing in this on Friday night tonight or where does joy come from? It comes from and that's our life can be cloaked in the darkness of the endless pursuit of more or we can break through into the light of I have enough. I can pause. I can enjoy. I can celebrate. I can feel the serenity and the peace of mind that what I have is what I need. And says this is the quality and this is what Shabas is about. The says, "When Shabas comes, it's like all of our work is done." Like the great journey song, it's time to say good shabas because all your work is done. It's time to say good shabas because all your work is done. But my work is not done. What are you talking about? Have you seen my inbox, my to-do list? Have you seen what I still have to get done? What do you mean all my work is done? It's not done. It is done for 25 hours. It's done. Hashem has given us that gift of taking away the ability or even the want to do more. For 25 hours, we're at peace. For 25 hours, we're at rest. And that's what it means. What was missing because in the six days of creation, Hashem gave us the energy of create, create, create, drive, drive, drive. And only when when he gave us the mid of coal only then did we get bashabas doesn't just mean the seventh day means shabas means to rest only when we get to a place of shabas of rest ofus then we have true and lasting and then we have real real so it's true certainly when the sun goes down on Friday at when it's time to light candles or go to that's it put away your techn technology. No more emails, no more phone calls, no more to-do, more desk. You can't work. You're done. 25-hour reprieve. 25 hours we're at rest. 25 hours we can exhale and we can have peace of mind. But you don't have to wait until the last moment. There are some Jews, not everybody can. And no judgment for those who can't, but some Jews as of midday Friday, they try to not do work. Don't talk to me about work. I'm already in a zone. Talk to me about the para. Talk to me about amuna. Talk to me about the shabas menu. Talk to me about who we're having work. I don't talk about work. I don't talk about work. I'm already bringing in that shabas that is to shabas. You don't have to wait till the last minute. So, this is your homework for today for this week that our turn Friday into Shabas is by let's be at rest. Let's truly be present. Let's truly celebrate. Shabas is this source of braha the mak braha because for 25 hours we don't have to feel the pressure to do to create to achieve to accomplish to influence to shape to redeem to repair for 25 hours we can just be for 25 hours we're human beings the other six days we're human doings for 25 hours we get to be human beings let's be enjoy the rest and the serenity whising a happy a healthy and a holy sh Sh. [music] [singing] Oh [music] yeah. Yeah.