Shabbos: A Day of Remembering What Matters | Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #248

So you know I am jo [music] [music and singing] [music] everyone. This is not Friday. It is of Shabas. We're turning our Friday into Shabas with tremendous gratitude to our generous series sponsors Mendy and Fishman in memory of Rabbi Rabbi Lord Jonathan Saxs and in memory of Mendy's fathers should have an aliyah. The father should have an aliyah. Um this is not just Shabas. This is shabas and the others used to say it's the shabas of kabala is a when we read about we don't just read it we experience it whatever is in the para is in our lives and so this is a big shabas special shabas we're back at the mountain back at the mountain means we're back at the mountain together so this is a shabas of unity so part of turning on Friday into our shabas is to feel united to feel one to reach out call someone that you haven't spoken to in a while. Get ready to stand at the base of that mountain with aus by checking in, by caring, by demonstrating love and concern, maybe by forgiving and reconnecting with someone you haven't seen in a long time. It's a big shabas. It's also a big shabas because it is the shabas of the BRS global campaign. If you enjoy, if you watch, if you listen to turn Friday into Shabas all year round and it's g if it's added any value to your life, please help us support us, enable us, empower us to continue to teach and spread more. Do your part. If you're a BRS member, you're doing your part. But if you're not, help us. brsonline.org/global brso nl brssonline.org/global and please do your part. Our parabas in the decalog in the in the ten commandments is the obligation the mitzvah of keeping shabas. Now it's interesting because the Torah doesn't just say keep shabas. The Torah specifically formulates it as remember Shabas. The Ramban the Ramban famously says you fulfill Zur. We remember Shabas not only on Shabas but in anticipation and preparation for Shabas. So when you say on Sunday Shabas when you say on Wednesday Shabas when you identify and associate each day of the week in correlated with Shabas we are fulfilling that mandate mandate of Zah. But the holy and Rashi says Shabas is a day of remembering. Shabas a person is in a state of remembering. says it's not just remember Shabas but on Shabas remember Shabas is a day of remembering we experience we observe Shabas by being in a state of explains what does that mean exactly so says Shabas we remember why we were sent to this world here's the thing all week long we're caught up in this world this life pleasure temptation impulse instinct material possessions things and we think that's the real world and then we go to Shabas and we say Shabas is an escape from the real world in the real world I go to work in the real world I drive a car in the real world I engage technology in the real real world I have to-dos and tasks shabas shabas is an escape from the real world says as fast we have it entirely backwards shabas is the real world the rest of the week we forget what the real world can look like after all this world is only a pros this world is a hallway it's a passage to the world to come the world to come, eternity, immortality, that's reality, that's forever. So Shabas, which is when Shabas comes and it's a taste of the world to come, that's remembering. So means remember. How can we remember what we really live for? How can we remember what really matters and what life is all about? How can we remember? By once a week going there. Once a week we already have 25 hours of meahaba. Once a week we're already in that next place that's called immortality. We tap into immortality in eternity even in this world. How? Through shabas. And that's the to be in that place of remembering is to remember what really matters. What matters is not here and now. What matters is not this world. What matters is not what's temporary. What matters is not what's temporal. matters is eternity, immortality and what we can do to achieve it and to position oursel best in it. And how do we inspire ourselves to remember that? By already experiencing it. How do you experience it? Shabas. Six days. Six days we work. Six days we're operating in here now in this world. And Shabas Shabas we're already inhabas is inhaba. And therefore says that's why it's shabas. We're supposed to remember what matters and what's true and we're supposed to forget what's fleeting and what's temporary writes that sadly often we get it backwards. We remember heav and we forget the tas of why we're in this world. So shabas is what reorients. Shabas is what gets our compass back on track. Shabas is what reminds us our priorities and what matters. So one of the ways that we can turn Friday into Arab Shabas, we can get ready for Shabas is to already anticipate Haba. Is to go into that place called remembering. Shabas we don't let our guard down. We don't turn it off. We don't disconnect. Shabas is not the escape. And Shabas is not the illusion. Shabas is reality. Shabas is truth. Shabas is it's the and the week long we forget. The week long is what we have to do. The week long is the work of this world. But the reality, the eternity, what we should remember is that we live for Shabas. So, help us live for Shabas. Help us live for Shabas. Help us turn our Friday into Shabas because we want to drag eternity haba into a little bit longer. Start it a little bit earlier to have a Friday which is not Friday, but Shabas. How do you remember Shabas? By not calling it Friday when you call it Arab Shabas. Don't call it Saturday night. Call it mo Shabas. Don't call it Sunday. Call it yomish shabas. When we orient our week around Shabas, we are fulfilling remembering Shabas and Shabas. We're in a matz of remembering remembering what really matters and that is the world to come. Have a beautiful Shabas, a healthy Shabas, a holy Shabas, and the happiest Shabas. [music] Oh [singing] [music and singing]