This is what her Shabbos (& marriage) was missing

she said this is the situation I'm stuck with Co in a hotel room I'm by myself for shabas is there any room in hak and Jewish law for me to leave the TV on before shabis and we watch TV on shabas so I don't go out of my mind I don't go crazy this is what she asks me how did God create during the six days of the week speech God said let there be light speech is external speech is a means for communicating outside of yourself on shabus God continues to create but he rests from speech he creates with thought what is the relationship with you and your thoughts versus you and your speech you and your speech may seem like two separate things like who said that right you and your thoughts are one the capitalists explain this is a euphemism to to really understand the relationship of the world and God during the week it seems quite external it seems as if it's two separate things whereas on chabis it's on the level of thought it's elevated the world is elevated to the status of thought we're inside of God rather than speech as if we're external from God which is why shabas is a holy day it's not just an arbitrary okay let's I'm picking the last day of the week to be different there's a reason why it's holy there's a reason why it's different there's a reason why it's separate there's a reason why we refrain from so many activities we're on a higher plane and again a soulle sensitive person is going to see Shob is differently it's not just another day that's arbitrarily let's rest he gets it what's another euphemism we use for chabas marriage intimacy because it's that Oneness it's that closeness that's the God is the like go shabas is like the bride the chabas queen it's that Joy it's that love it's that intimacy it's that connection because it's on the level of thought which is Oneness rather than speech separateness by the way on a that that's on a microcosmic weekly level on a macro level the Messianic era is referred to as y Shabbat a day that is one large shabas because when Messiah comes God is going to be revealed in this world like Isaiah says in his prophecies the whole world will be full of the knowledge of God the world will be elevated to the thought of God like God's thoughts rather than speech we're going to feel that similar connection to chabas right now we're like in the week day during Exile and our job is to usher in chabas our job is to get closer to the Messianic era we're not just looking for a break from what we're doing now or that too but we're looking to get closer to what the ultimate purpose of creation actually is I get a WhatsApp message from a young girl um she doesn't know me and that's why she was asking me just to give you some background here this is a a young girl who is apparently grew up in a very quote unquote Orthodox traditional Jewish home she was was in Florida for the weekend sick with Co quarantining isolated by herself and she's going to be by herself for an entire chabus and she's nervous that she's going to be bored out of her mind and she was very tempted to turn on the TV and just watch TV on chabas because she's bored and and and just and again the background she came from obviously would not support that she was at a place in her life where she's I guess figuring out her identity you know as a as an older adolescent trying to figure out who she really wants to be and who she really is and was struggling with this and she was not in a position where she felt like she could ask her rabbis I guess or or family you know she I guess she felt like she would have been judged somehow she got my number and she reached out to me she said this is the situation I'm stuck with Co in a hotel room I'm buy myself for shabas is there any room in hak and Jewish law for me to leave the TV on before shabas and we watch TV on shab so I don't go out of my mind I don't go crazy this is what she asks me I I don't know her and I don't know the reper I mean just to give you the sense of responsibility of such a question I'm not here to derail Judaism for the rest of her life because once something becomes okay it becomes okay in your head not here to destroy somebody's life I don't know how serious I don't know does she have depression should I I don't know I I just don't know her I don't know what's going on you know what I mean there's a lot of factors in that that in a question but here's what I told her I I had a suspicion and apparently I was right that her understanding of shabas was quite Elementary despite growing up in a very traditional Community shabus was very much about let's just separate from the the world but why am I separating from the world what am I connecting to that part was totally absent I said I'd love for you tonight to open up a sitter and to read in English in a language that you understand read the read the romance that we have with shabas the love relationship we have with God one day you're going to go down Thea you're going to be under the wedding canopy please don't be tempted to be bored and pull out your phone under Thea you're not going to do that otherwise you're going to end it before it starts God forbid you're under the of God you have a relationship with God a deep meaningful relationship with God God's thought rather than speech one with him Unity with him and he's giving you a chance to finally after many many years of growing up with shabas to prove to yourself that you really know what shabas is and that you could experience shabus to the fullest this is a chance to prove to yourself I'm not just that I can do it but I could experience what it really is a deep meaningful intimate relationship for 25 hours I said get yourself a good book get some inspiring reading material get a sitter and make this shabus count prove it to yourself show yourself this is what it is because that's what shabas really is that intimacy with God and that's what our weekday is getting ready for that getting ready that's what Exile is getting ready for messiah it's hard to see this on a very natural normal level without studying it because that's just the product of Exile it's the product of our soul being so hidden there there was once a fellow going back several hundred years ago who was going through a very difficult time financially his business was not taking off and he suggested to his re you know I need some sort of blessing the rabbit understood from the way he worded the question that the business was running on chabis that the guy was feeling desperation the rabit tells him I'd like to make with you a partnership I'd like to buy 15% of your business and trust me you'll do well okay he sells 15% of the business they meet and the re says Okay first order of business is we're closing on shabus what he says well I own a seventh of your business so you keep all the six days and all all deal with everything on shabas any profits that come in on chabas all deal with and we're closing that day they ended up closing on chabis and the guy's business succeeded because the re had the ability to see what chabus really is that shabas is a deep intimate close relationship with hasem and that's reflecting what the Messianic era is going to be like and there's no way that observing that can cause one to fail this guy couldn't see it and wasn't at a place where he was ready to believe it so the re had to show him