Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #10 - From Boshes to Shabbos

good Erev Shabbos to everyone the holy Erev Shabbos Jews are gathered together each week at this time or as we count down and anticipate Shabbos Shabbos that we desperately need more than ever a time in a place of refuge to be together it is something that we cherish and I cherish the fact that you joined me to be together so thank you so much for being here the Shabbos and every Shabbos the truth is we think that we're observing or keeping one Shabbos but the truth is we're keeping more than one Shabbos what do I mean and how do I know that and sour Parishad happens to be in precious condition litera tells us a chef so site Ishimaru Lomita sheet ero any a sham sham so Sai in plural the double the dual the two Shabbos --is we are instructed we are mandated to keep now I know about you but I only keep one job sundown Friday to sundown on mode say Shabbos twenty-five hours in total we keep we abstain we refrain from the 39 acts of creative labor we try to inject and envy you at that time with holiness and meaning and there's one Shabbos that we're keeping it's one day a week it's not more than one day so why does the total formulate when it gives us this mandate this mission this challenge to observe Shabbos why does it tell us in the plural shop suicide more than one many ask this question included among them the great solanum Arriba this anima rabbit says the following he says eh Polina schwäbisch memorable ooh cause Rijo knows the first set of tablets established one theme one pattern of Shabbos there's an aspect of Shabbos which is they are lomasa mauritius it commemorates creation we revisit the notion of creation of a recreation of rejuvenation and then the second set of lucas they establish or they introduced the second theme and that is a clearly TS miss Ryan the fact that Shabbos liberates us it frees us from the shackles that to dues the anxiety the worry of the week we have this this packet in time this window and time just like there's a Mick - in space as we've been talking over and over I can enter a sanctuary in space and I can isolate myself a safe room from the rest of the world so - there's a sanctuary in time I can isolate myself I can retreat into a sanctuary of time that is a place of a safety of safe time it's called the Chanukah Shabbos so sham sauce-i and the plural says the farmer ABBA because the truth is there are two aspects Shabbos there is the Z column a sebaceous the creation aspect and the Zika Liat CS which I'm miss all a chick expands on this when he talks about the two notions when he calls the Shabbos delaila Lashon Bastila Tata the upper Shabbos and the lower Shabbos Shabbos gives us back our identity it returns us to the core mission of who we are when other Mauritian is expelled from the gun from the Garden of Eden he's introduced to these four components Azerbaijan of a chick hard labor hard work until then life he was fully supported life was an endless morgue Hashem gave him everything he needed everything he wanted and now Adam would have to work and we to continue to suffer that curse by having to by having to work there was an endless pointless labor a fear of a competitive society it's not that the work was only you but you had to compete and there was the notion that other Navigant to confront his mortality and Shabbos even after being expelled from GaN Eden says her my soul of a chick in his homage of the Robin this week's Pasha Shabbos releases man from these four parts we need to know that when to stop working to come back to the core of who we were meant to be the show is the root of who we are to spend time with our family to spend time with Hashem to spend time and to be comfortable in our own skin with ourselves Shabbos doula Tata and the Shabbos delaila we draw from the ultimate Shabbos which is our connection our are touching maeín or lamb haba the world to come what that will mean but back to the salon Omer ever salon rubber brings us to an amazing or a high McCullers the owner heinrich heine attire says the following he says Isaiah masturbation if you look at the earth I am the horrify makes this comment not a nor parsha the way back in Paris voracious on the world kevo Shabbos that I Shem rested Sarkozy Bora Bora assalam this game she shaman debat Nevada when God first created the world how long was its contract athletes have a contract rabbis other contract employees have a contract how long is that contract and when is the contract up for renewal so we'd like to think that the contract was sort of endless a sham created a world and he intended that world to continue until when until he would bring Messiah until there would be a world to come until they were being altogether transformation to the reality as we know it but says they are a high McCullough should be paying attention pasok that was not in fact God's intent at all what was God's intent his original plan Keesha see I'm in my saw session a Shamus a shaman deserts for six days he created the world it means that our original contract lasted how long six days and only when we observe Shabbos properly when we tap into the energy of Shabbos when we rejuvenate and re-energize on Shabbos when we return to the core of who we are and Shabbos that's what earns us a contract extension and since the high McCulloh this continues this cycle and i Yama's until today we think we're part of this linear notion of time that's gonna go on forever and just every seven days Shabbos comes that's not true the whole world only renews itself for six days at a time and it's only because we embrace our encounter it's only because we tap into the energy the holiness the sanctity of Shabbos that God says you know what I'm gonna renew the contract six more days and let's see what next Shabbos looks like I'm calm that's what the orihime says what does that mean and I want to suggest to you my dear Erev Shabbos Jew friends I want to suggest you holy hidden the following what it means is we often get it backwards we think that what Shabbos for Shabbos gives me the cow of the energy the strength the hope the faith to get ready to face and confront another week what will the next week hold will I earn a paycheck can I go back to work will normal life return what will be the stress is the anxiety what will be the bad news the good news what will the week ahead bring me I don't know I need Shabbos I need to sleep on Shabbos I need to eat on Shabbos and you don't learn on Shabbos need to sing and Chagas I don't laugh on Shabbos I need to play games on Shabbos I need Shabbos to give me what I need to get back to the rest of the week but my dear friends that's backwards that's not the way it's meant to be at all in fact it's the exact opposite and we say it in our Davin hang on Shabbos Shabbos is tactless taxes Shabbos is the goal it is the purpose it is the essence it's not that I experience him I rest on Shabbos so I have what I need to get back to another week it's that I go through the whole week why to be able to get to Shabbos tackles mass embrasures it is the purpose the goal the essence it's the reason that I do everything I do all week long I don't rest on Travis to go back to work I work all week long to earn to merit to be able to arrive at a sense of Shabbos so when we understand that shot misses the tackle as Shabbos is not anticipatory it's not it's not for the week ahead but rather Shabbos is the essence of why I work the whole week behind now I understand what it means God renews the contract six days six days we work and only when we understand the Shabbos is the taxes it's the reason why am i working so hard to be with my family to provide for my family why am i working so hard to have some margin and space to learn to diamond to sing to make contact with holiness to really energize and restore my soul Shabbos is the taxes it's the reason it's the essence for why I had worked all week long and that's maybe with the or Hanukkah this means that God created a world for six days and he said let's see if humanity when man gets the Shabbos do they understand that that's the reason I did it all that that's really the purpose and the essence will they understand that if they do I'll give them six more days so they can get ready for yet another Shabbos so shop so scientist Maru there are two components there's a duality to every Shabbos we observe and every Shabbos we experience on the one hand there is commemorating the notion of beginning of fresh start of an opportunity to draw a line in the card and start again that just like a cottage bar was my house belonging to a book to go because well who recreates with his goodness he gives us the ability to revisit creation and to revisit the definition of ourselves to start again to begin again and to get it right and then secondly it's a curly TSM saying it's the notion of liberty and a freedom it's liberating ourselves from however we've defined ourselves liberating ourselves from the mistakes in the shortcomings liberating ourselves from the worries and the shackles liberating ourselves from the anxiety it's liberating ourselves in twenty five hours nothing bothers us for twenty five hours everything is right for twenty five hours it's me Hashem me and my family all the challenges all the problems all the worries they'll be there on the other end just after you make Abdullah but until then until then tap into that beauty of Shabbos this connect to connect to what matters and by so doing we truly are able to liberate ourselves the Schwalm rabbit expands on this and really develops the steam and a beautiful essay that I wish I had time to learn fully with you but this is the message going into the Shabbos is don't observe one Shabbos observe too Shabs so site ich moto there are the two components of shadows there is the revisiting creation and understanding that all that we do all the conquering of the world all that emulating and imitating a Shem to create the tactless of it all is to get to Shabbos when you get to Shabbos don't run out of energy when you get to Shabbos don't collapse and pass out when you get to Shabbos don't have nothing left to give your family yourself to give Shabbos Shabbos is why you're doing it all it's like you put all the work in for the wedding and why are you working so hard you're making the plans remember when you were able to have a wedding and please God will be able to have again soon I know there are people who are with us and we are watching we're long anticipating when we can celebrate symphysis together please God been here a VI may know so you have to plan and you speak to the caterer and you set the menu and you meet with the decor and what is the band that everyone has their new outfit and all of that work and then somebody's got to work really hard to earn the money to pay for all of that so imagine you did all of that you got to the wedding and you said ah let's do this quickly I'm exhausted I need to get the bed where you sit at that wedding and your eyes are closing you're half asleep you're disconnected everything you've done all the effort all the planning it was all to be able to get to that simcha to that wedding so that's when you have to make sure that you have and most that's when you have to live the fullest that's what you have to extract and take out everything from it and that's what Shabbos is at the end of the week all week long we're planning all week long were working all week long were earning all week long were providing so that we can get to Shabbos that's what it's for don't run out of energy don't rap this is when you run into energy rejuvenate reenergize I don't care what you have to do drink a huge cup of coffee right before you make kiddush you can't before you make it before you make up all the Shabbos before you make Shabbos drink I have a caffeine pill a five-hour a 25 hour energy I'm gonna invent a new drink a new energy drink 25 hour energy it's called Shabbos it's called blinding candles it's called making kiddush it's called Shalom Aleichem it's called giving Baracus you don't need to drink as Heyliger gesh Magadan what we do is we're makanda Shabbos when we sanctify the Shabbos that's like swallowing a twenty five hour energy drink and we have whatever it takes to be able to experience the greatest Shabbos and where do we get that energy from we're energized by the notion that I could take all my worries and problems I can put them up on a shelf 25 hours exactly TSM it's time this duality these two components also these two components but I can reflect another duality it chef so ciation or the notion of two chávez's I'm keeping on the one end of Shabbos there is the there is the passive on the one hand of Shabbos there's what I have to abstain or refrain from 39 categories of creative labor I can't violate I can't plant and plow and harvest and grind and I can't bake and cook I can't do all those things there's what I have to abstain a refrain I have to be passive but there's another component of Shabbos I have to imbue it made out with holiness and that doesn't happen passively and it doesn't happen by accident it takes effort it takes effort and kedusha bleona that's what Erev Shabbos is also about that's why you're here with me that's why we're working on the experience of Arab shops I want to end by reminding what I sent out those who are not yet part of it please join our Arab Shabbos group we have whatsapp groups that we send out every Friday morning wake up to a message short audio clip and a message of what to do that Friday to turn Friday into Erev Shabbos and this morning I reminded everybody of the following practice which I love and I strongly encourage a practice that's known I see the show Hamish I felt as Tom now where does that come from so the BCO save quotes and similar HP bases brought down by the mugging of ROM which he calls it a mitzvah to taste the Shabbos food on Erev Shabbos now pikuach nefesh is don't even this Mitzvah be careful make sure you talk to whoever cooked and prepared that food don't risk your life in order to taste it but some of the custom if you make a potato kugel you also make another little potato kugel if you made X you also make a little version of X so an air of Shabbos - I'm out those who want have a little something to taste and to tap into why are we doing that so it's brought down the IRAs Allah says because not just do we want to make sure the food tastes good what if there's an adjustment that has to be made in my home it's always perfect from the start but let's say you have to add more spices let's say you have to adjust it to make sure it tastes good the other he's also said it's deeper than that you know in in in royalty in the palace they used to have professional tasters before you serve food to royalty - our stock recei to a state dinner someone better taste it make sure it's your best effort Shabbos Queen is coming Shabbos Queen is going to be a guest at our table shell on my list and we're welcoming the Shabbos Queen someone has to taste the food we are trying to create an atmosphere within our home already on Erev Shabbos our home is a palace we're welcoming royalty called the Shabbos Queen pinay shabbos Nicola as we spoke a few weeks ago we're putting on our Shabbos punim we're putting on our Shabbos relaxed tranquil happy face we're welcoming that royalty within ourselves we need to taste and make sure that the food is good but I think there's another reason we do it as well and again I'm a-gonna from calls it a mitzvah Tom aha where does it come from the word tomat we say in Shabbos Mustafa Tom now time ahooo those who taste it will merit life it means in the context of most of those who taste Shabbos will merit the world to come however the basis of quotes Tom a famous offal means those who taste those who taste the Shabbos food on air Shabbos times oh-ho there's a mitzvah Tom now tap into Shabbos already an Arab shops and that I think is the deeper reason for this custom for this practice that some have which is we draw Shabbos and early the extension is even further it's not Friday it's Erev Shabbos what makes Friday Erev Shabbos when I wake up to a set table what makes Shabbos what makes Friday Erev Shabbos when I've organized my schedule when I'm preparing at viola when I when I my clothing my haircut my shaving nan sphere of cutting my nails all my preparations including among them I'm tasting the food tell them now I'm already drawing the energy the sweetness the taste of Shabbos I'm bringing in and I'm drawing it in even earlier so my friends shop so site Tish mode there are two components of Shabbos there's what we have stained or refrain from and then there's the holiness of Shabbos thank you for joining me and every week we get together on encourage you if you haven't yet signed up for the whatsapp group if you're watching on YouTube please subscribe to the YouTube channel thank you for learning with me through this virus even though we are a part we're the farthest thing from alone when we come together to learn to grow when we come together to increase our sense of sanctity shafts of sight to Shmona be careful to observe both parts of Shabbos keep the massive erasures creation and keep the ETS with sign liberate free yourself keep the negative abstain from violating keep the positive give it a holy sense of Shabbos and now hang up and don't risk your life but with the permission of whoever's in charge go taste some of the era of Shabbos food and draw in the flavor of Shaba see already now have wonderful wonderful and a holeshot well