Stop chasing MORE | Turn Friday Into Erev Shabbos #237

[music] Oh [music] sh Oh y [music] [singing] everyone >> today is not in fact Friday. Today is in fact Arab Shabas and we are turning our Friday into Arab Shabas. Want to thank our generous sponsor of our series my dear friends Mind and Sora Fishman is based in memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sax. This this morning's Shir is sponsored anonymously in honor of the great Rafi Machin and is as well is sponsored by the Kamitki family in memory of our beloved Jerry Kamitzki who delay Ben Mosha on his first year. We miss Jerry terribly each and every day. We love Jerry's nish should have an aliyah. So as we always say today is not Friday. Today is of Shabas and we're here to turn our Friday into Shabas. And one of the ways that we can do it is by focusing and leaning into the fact that when Shabas comes, we have everything that we need. All week long we feel what's missing. All week long we work and we conquer and we try to control the world. All week long we try to acquire more and more. But come shabas, we're at rest. We're at peace. There's serenity. Come shabas, whatever we have is what we need. When shabas comes, we're able to feel that we have everything. And that's our task. That's our mission on Arab Shabas is to begin to transition from that weekday place of work, ambition, acquisition to the Arab Shabas Shabas place of being at peace. Certainly when it comes to not everybody has the luxury of stopping or going home from work at on Shabas, but those who can disconnect. Don't look at the stock market. Don't look at your net worth or portfolio. Don't look at your email and inbox. Again, not everybody has the luxury. But to the degree that we can we can try to extract ourselves from the weak and try to immerse ourselves in Shabas. And this is the mida this is a character trait and quality that we have from none other than a we implanted it inside us. Our para tells us after acquires a new piece of real estate known as after a burries surah testifies hashem is a bol that god blessed a with everything. The word S seems extra or extraneous. The measure says the S is talking about Eleazar about whom the Pik says Hamos be asho a ra explains he says the following the quality of the mida what made a special was the mida of his topus his topic means mik it's enough what I have is enough I'm good to go what I have is what hashem has determined for me hashem a hashem blessed a with a sense of other people say I have a lot but I want more. Aam said I have everything. I have everything. I have my health. I have my family. I have a Shabas table. I have Shabas food. I have everything. Even when a person is working to conquer and acquire more can still feel like as I take that initiative but I also simultaneously can recognize and feel but whatever I have I have everything I need. A had this cole. had this and he gave it to Jacob and Jacob says when Jacob reunites with his brother and says, "I have a lot. I have a lot. Look at what I have. I have a lot. But even as much as I have a lot, I could always have more." And Jacob responds and he says, "You have a lot. I have it all. I have everything." Aram gave it to gave it to Yakov. We say this in our benching. Mal we say give us that sense of coal give us that quality give us that mida give us that capacity to on shabas feel I have everything I need the moment we go into shabas shabas we shut down shabas we disconnect shabas we can't acquire shabas we can't work shabas we can't elevate our net worth so shabas we have everything we look around what's right under our nose we don't see what's missing we don't see what we yet want to go get and get and have we see that mida of That's what the kakar writes that alzar was moshel a many people is mosh them for many people their property their net worth their things own them I need I have to have the upgrade the latest it owns us instead of us owning it had this quality he was bash he owned the things the things didn't own him Because alzo was an extension of a and he really was reflecting that quality of a that capacity. So shore points outri shabas the numerical value of the words that god bless is the numerical value of the word shabas. Shabas, we live this blessing of we can become that vessel that holds me. Shabas comes and we have that ability to feel. I have everything I need. Don't look at what others have. Don't be jealous. Don't be envious. Don't work hard. Don't try to acquire more. All week long, we can work. All week long, we try to acquire. All week long, we try to improve and conquer. Shabas comes. We're at rest. We're at peace. That's our homework for today. Today we turn our Friday into Arab Shabas by working on ourus to look at what we have and say it's enough. One of the names of who said to the word Duo it's enough. What we have is enough. And we don't normally live that way. All week long we live in the we live in the space of more acquiring growing conquering manipulating. But comes Shabas histopus. But you can't just punct the sun doesn't set and all of a sudden you find yourself in the mid of his stopkus satisfaction having it all. That's what turning Friday into Arab Shabas is all about working on that and transitioning in that way going and entering. So let's all let's all enter the space of midapus. Let's all receive the brah of au. Let's all be that cle that vessel that can receive that of the to get to the place of and he blesses all of us too when we turn our Friday into Shabas and come into Shabas with a sense that we have everything that we need [music] >> [music] >> It's all I [singing] [music] [singing]