How to Make Your Kids Love Shabbat

And it's a fantastic thing to do to teach your kids that Shabbat is not a time where there is limitations and you're not allowed to do this. You're not allowed to do this. If you only teach your kids about what they're not allowed to do, they're not allowed to watch this. They're not allowed to look at this. They're not allowed to breathe. Not allowed. Not allowed. Not allowed. What ends up happening is that your kids are going to hate Shabbat one day because they say nothing's allowed. Instead, you have to teach them what is also allowed. And in fact what is only allowed on Shabbat and what is unique about Shabbat and that's why the second mean that we learn from is that you have to prepare for Shabbat like Shab how do you prepare for Shabbat like Shabb you already start preparing for Shabbat on Shabbat meaning as soon as Shabbat ended you already think about next Shabbat. How do you think about next Shabbat? Simple. Everything that you are going to get during that week, you're going to buy something, [music] whether it's a special type of food or clothing or or a toy or whatever it is, save it for Shabbat. Save it for Shabbat. Or if it's Yum to save it for Yum. That's when you want to to use this special food or special clothes or special toy or whatever it is. All the best things. Shabbat is the day. That is one of the ways to not only have onik Shabbat and make Shabbat truly unique from the rest of the week cuz you know all your presence, all your best, all your good is going to be uh on Shabbat itself. But aside from that, you also teach your kids the same. You teach your kids the same. Oh, this new shirt that we got you, what do you want? You want to WEAR IT NOW? NO, NO, NO. I WANT TO WEAR IT FOR SHABBAT. WHY? Because Shabbat is a date to start with the shirt. Shabbat is a date. This is a Shabbat shirt. This is a Shabbat shirt. This is Shabbat pants. This is Shabbat shoes and so on and so forth. And Shabbat page 113A says that one of the things that is required for the sake of on Shabbat is to have different clothes for Shabbat. Meaning that a person should not wear the same clothes they wear during the week on Shabbat. there. They should have a different pair of shoes, different suit, different everything that they only wear on Shabbat.