Shabbos: The Ultimate Day of Gratitude | Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #239

Oh sh [music] everybody [music] >> today is not Friday the Friday of a holic weekend today Shabas and we're here to turn my Friday into Arab Shabas. Want to thank our generous series sponsor many fish in memory of Rabbi Jonathan Ben David Ary. Hopefully everyone's having a little vacation, a little break, a long weekend known in the world as Thanksgiving weekend, the weekend of giving thanks. But the truth is as we're turning our Friday of Shabas, I was thinking that each and every Shabas is really all about giving thanks. There's nothing wrong with celebrating and giving thanks on this day joining the rest of America. But as Jews, as yidden, as Yehudim, named for Yehuda, which means thanks, in our very name, in our essence, is actually an attitude of gratitude. Not one day a year, each and every day of the year. And if there is one day of the week in which we are supposed to identify and list and feel connected with and express gratitude more than any other, it is none other than Shabases. Shabas is a day of thanks, a day of gratitude. The Ramban writes in say form that the reason for observing Shabas we not only acknowledge and concede that word means to admit and it also means grateful. We're celebrating we're marking the creation of the universe the creation of the world. Hashem six days you created the seventh we rest and on the seventh day that we rest we look back on the six days with an attitude of gratitude. Thank you for creating me. Thank you for creating the world. Thank you for creating my world. my world and everything in it with an enormous sense of gratitude and appreciation and indeed that is the song of Shabas. Last Friday we spoke about last Friday he turned it into Shabas by speaking mul shabas that shabish is sing the song of shabas that theaphilum that's designated about shabas even though it doesn't talk about shabas other than in its introduction msabap to laashem what is the song of shabas the song of shabas that we sing is a song of gratitude thank you thank you ibon shalom All week long I feel what's missing, what's lacking, what I need, what I want, what I don't have and I work towards getting it. Shabas comes and Shabas I have everything I need. Shabas is not what's missing. Shabas is what's there. Shabas is not what I want. Shabas is what I have. Shabas is all about gratitude. It's a time to press pause and thank say say with everything I'm working for, with everything I want, with everything I still don't have, I'm grateful. I'm grateful. The med says the song of Shabas is the song we sing is thank you. Thank you Hashem. Thank you Hashem. That's a song not it's a song of the whole week but it's a song especially of Shabas. So this Thanksgiving weekend where America is celebrating at least Thanksgiving watching football carving turkey going on sales a black Friday. We don't have a Black Friday. We have a white erabas, a holy ar of shabas, a pure er of shabas, a shabas, a lit up of shabas. And why is that? Thanksgiving wasn't yesterday. Thanksgiving is today and tomorrow and every day. Thanksgiving is every shabas the song of shabas. The song of shabas that we sing is the song of thanksgiving. We say in the Friday night tonight we'll say the Jewish people will rest those who sanctify your name. Why are we resting? What's the purpose and goal of the resting? The way we use what we do with that rest is to say thank you. To say thank you the writes the core and the essence of the rest of Shabas say thank you. So all week long we're running and going and doing and answering and completing and fulfilling. Who has time to say thank you? Shabas, slow down. Shabas, because we slow down. Now we have the margin, the space. Now we're able to say thank you. Thank you. Thanksgiving weekend. Thanksgiving. Shabas. Every Shabas is a day of thanksgiving. Every Shabas is a day of thank you. Of thank you. We couldn't be more grateful. We're so deeply and profoundly appreciative. So writes and say formos regarding the the fell a double portion on Friday to have enough for shabas that writes low in order to contemplate and think about the the loving kindness of hashem and to express gratitude. So the ramban writes shabas is a day of thanking hashem for creation. We look back and say thank you for creating the world. Thank you for including and creating me. Shabas is a day that ms moria we sing the song of shabas. So we turn our Friday into Shabas by beginning to focus and identify. Thank you. We don't need a gratitude journal. Thank you. What are the things I want to list? What a beautiful minute it would be. Our Shabas tables would be transformed if everyone came to the table Friday night with something they're thankful about from that week. What was something that worked out? What was something that went well? What is something you don't take for granted? What is something you're thankful for? This is the essence. This is what Shabas is about. We turn our Friday into er of Shabas by getting ready for Shabas. And how do we get ready for Shabas? by thinking about what we're grateful for. By singing the song of Shabase, we sing the song of Shabas. We sing the song of the holy Shabas. So on what the world calls this Thanksgiving weekend, let's not relegate or delegate Thanksgiving to one day or to two or to a weekend. But each and every Friday, get ready for Shabas. turning Friday into Shabas by thinking about what we're grateful for and then spending that 25 hours of Shabas. We're resting to thank you, to thank your name, to press pause, to stop trying to run after and accumulate and amass and achieve more and to press pause just to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So this Shabas and every Shabas, let's sing the song of Shabas. And the song of Shabas is thank you Hashem. Thank you, Hashem. Thank all of you for learning and growing together with me. And until next Shabbat, stay happy, stay healthy, and stay holy. >> [music] [music]