Shabbos: The Day We Get Back Up | Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #240

[music] Good sh [music] on eth Friday. We cannot donate day Friday. We know today is not Friday. Today is in fact of Shabas and we are here to turn our Friday into Arab Shabas. I want to thank our generous series sponsor men and our dear friends and in memory of Rabbi Jonathan Saxi Ben David. Thank you so much for your generosity. So I want to share with you a new a new thought how to turn our Friday into Shabas. based on a beautiful beautiful Torah in parl's new parcious and in it on parish he has the following not connected to the para specifically but in generally he writes the following and here's something we could all work on each and every Friday what is shabas really all about what is its essence if we had to reduce it to its core it's of course a day of of trust of faith in hashem but how does that demonstrate the truth is inir week. Please go and listen to the from this week. We talked at length about that if a person craves. You want serenity, you want peace of mind, you want happiness and you want joy, you want calm in your life, it is achieved through. That's what provides. In fact, the metric, the measure, the way to know whether you're living with the trust and faith in Hashem is look at your life. Are you anxious and a nervous caleria? Are you scattered and fragmented? Are you all over the place? Or you have come, you have come. righteous men and women holy sadik and they have a nephesh there's a peace there's a calm that is the evidence of the inner that I'm in hem's hands I embrace my place I am where I'm meant to be I let go and I let go I know Hashem is in charge I submit I surrender so we say four languages of the of this rest this peace this inner peace that we're longing for what are the four languages is four types of of serenity of love and of giving, a serenity of truth and of faith, a serenity of peace, a serenity of quiet, a serenity of trust, a complete serenity, a complete rest, a complete. Now the truth is Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. We also crave that manuka. We want that peace of mind, that serenity, that happiness. We want that all the time, every day of the week. But it's on Shabas that a Jew can live. When we shut off the noise, when we disconnect from the world around us, when we connect to Hashem, where we come from, we go back to the source. We remember creation. Remember, Hashem is in charge. He's in control. He's involved in our life. He's cured and choreographing everything. Shabas is a day of Shabas is the strength of faith. So that's when we're able to feel the of life. Now he continues amazing and he says the following says invad seven times that falls and they get up seven times. Now is it seven times you fall and because you're sad? No. What makes you a sadic is that you fell and you got up and you got up. We wrote about this a couple of weeks ago that failing forward and that Denver Broncos and uh this Pikach and a great quote from Roger Federer how many points he lost but you got to move on to the next point. How many times you have to punt but you keep your eye on the ball and you still win the game. So the the goal of Yiddish of Judaism is not to never fail. You can't be perfect. people seven times you fall down become and you get up. So right so sure seven times the falls in numerical value is the same as Shabas. So Shabas is the day of getting up. Even the Jew who all week long fell. You fell and you broke your diet. You fell and you ruined your exercise streak. You fell and you missed minion. You fell and you skipped the day of the daf. You fell and you looked at what you shouldn't have looked at. You fell and you lost patience and you overreacted to someone. All week long we struggle. All week long we're in positions and circumstances. But we fall because Shabas is the day of Shabas is the day of getting up. the work and the feeling. The energy of Shabas is the energy of faith. I see and I feel Hashem everywhere. I'm spending quality time. I'm communicating. All the noise, all the distractions, all that distance, it's eliminated. There's there's trust, there's faith, there's surrender, there's submission, there's Hashem in my life. And therefore, I have this manuka. Every which type of manuka, I feel the serenity, the peace of manha because I feel it. I have it on Shabas. So even if even if all week long I fell I failed but Shabas comes and I able to get up and that's why that's so that's the homework. That's the way we can turn our Friday into Shabas is to get ready to get up. Get ready to get up. Don't be stuck. Don't lie on the ground. I've fallen and I can't get up. We can get up even if we've fallen. Don't try to fall and don't be proud that you fell and don't celebrate failure, but we fail. We're humans. It's natural. So, are you going to lie on the floor? Are you going to be that commercial? I've fallen. I can't get up. Or the button that we press to get help is called Shabasatria. Shabas. Every Jew is given a button. You can press it and you can get up even when you fell. And that button is Shabas. So turn Friday into every of Shabas by getting ready to get up by stopping the fall by letting go by forgiving yourself earn forgiveness but also forgive ourselves and tap into the beauty of Shabas with the willingness to come. We should all be zoka not to fall. But if we do to see and tap into and experience the energy, the beauty of shabas, the kawak that can give us the rest, the peace, the serenity, all the come so that we're able to get up, have a beautiful Shabas, happy, a holy, and a healthy Shabas. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] [music] >> [singing] [music] [singing]