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Today
is not Friday. Today is Arab Shabas and
we're here to turn our Friday into Arab
Shabas. A big thank you to our gen
generous series sponsors Mandy and fish
in memory of Rabbi Jonathan Saxs of
Yakov Ben Ary and in memory of Mandy's
father should have an aliyah. We are in
the parios of gullis and gula. The
kutskarb is said that when we read these
parots we're not reading about a piece
or a part of the past. We're reading
about the prescription for our own
story, our own destiny, our own
redemption. that we all experience
mates are constricted, restricted,
closing small space and the gula, the
redemption, the liberation, the freedom
from and when do we have this? No time
more than shabas. Shabas is the gula.
Shabas is haba. Shabas says that all
week long we're in the gullus of having
to have a job and work. We're bound by
other people. We have the master called
work and money and responsibility and
bills and invoices and tasks and
tuitions and inboxes. All these things
are our master. They're our gullus. All
week long we face and we navigate and we
confront the gullus of not really owning
our own time, not really owning our own
ability to have freedom. Comes Shabas.
Shabas liberates and emancipates. Shabas
sets us free. Shabas gives us not just
that taste of gula. Shabas is gula
because for Shabas you put everything
else up on the shelf. There is no
answering the inbox and the WhatsApp and
the texts. There are no to-dos to check
off. There are no bills to pay. For
Shabas we're shal Shabas we're whole.
We're complete. We're free. And
therefore,
it is a taste of exodus, a taste of
freedom, a taste of liberty. Expands on
this extensively in
shalom in several essays. He has in one
called
Shabas. He talks about that we are only
redeemed in the merit of Shabas. Shabas
is a day of Shabas is a day of
connection and faith and in the merit of
our ability to disconnect from this
world and connect to the world of
eternity. It's in that merit that we
were first redeemed. But in an earlier
essay, in an earlier mime, he talks
about that chabas is shabas is shabas.
All the days of the week is gullis. All
the days of the week, we have messages
and inboxes and errands and places and
wash and laundry and dishes. Shabas.
Shabas comes, put it all up on a shelf.
Shabas comes, shut it all down. Shabas
comes disconnect in order to be free.
All week long we have worries, we have
anxieties, we have fears. All week long
we have legitimate things that we have
to tend to.
And therefore,
all week long, we're also in the throws
of the Sahara, particularly because of
the access and use of technology. But
for so many other reasons, our temper is
short because we're our days are so full
and we have so little time and we're
hangry and we're running and all week
long the
we find ourselves in its grasp in its
throws
and
we're like the Mosha was telling them
I'm here to set you free but they
couldn't hear me.
We feel so breathless. We feel so run
down. We have so little vision and
perspective and ability to believe it
can be different. And come Shabas takea
restore that nama and put on pabas. We
put on the shabas pim and now we're a
new person and a different person. All
week long we're the gulos Jew and Shabas
comes and we're the gula Jew. Shabas is
a taste of that world of that future.
We're Shabas. We enter Shabas and Shabas
enters us.
We shake off all the things that we are
weighed down from all week long and we
liberate ourselves.
All four of the languages of we
experience over the course of the four
stages of Shabas with of course
being
the highest level of connection. So
here's how we are going to turn Friday
into Shabas today. Think about today.
What's weighing you down? What's holding
you back? What's making you feel the mit
the mar making you feeling restricted
and constricted in your own life? What's
making you feel helpless and hopeless?
What's making you feel so anxious and
worried? And now make a conscious effort
to liberate to step out to set it aside
to put it down. It may still be there
shabas could be after havdala. You'll
have to return to it. Whether it's work,
whether it's health, whether it's
financial, whether it's relationship,
whether it's the world of the the news
of the world. For 25 hours, we have a
cocoon, a city of refuge. For 25 hours,
we can disconnect from it. For 25 hours,
we are transported to a different place
called Shabas. And in that place called
Shabas, everything's great and amazing
and whole and complete. And for those 25
hours, we lack and miss nothing. For
those 25 hours, there is redemption. But
it doesn't happen by accident. And it
doesn't happen passively. You have to
actively contemplate and think and
strategize and focus. So today, turn
Friday into Shabas by identifying. Maybe
it's the notifications on your inbox.
Maybe it's how many voicemails you
haven't returned, how many errands you
still have to run. Maybe it's the bills
that you're not sure how you're going to
pay. All of us have that thing which is
our gulas. And make the conscious effort
and decision to liberate
to spend a shabas to spend a shabas a
taste of a shabas.
a Shabas where we're not thinking about
and weighed down by those things and in
that way be able to be transported in
the of that Shabas to come out of Shabas
and to be able to have a gula that lasts
in fact all week long. Have a wonderful
Shabbas. Stay happy, stay healthy, and
stay
