Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #100 - Greatest Pleasure of Shabbos is Happiness

welcome back turn friday into arab shabbos it is so good to be back together again and to be able to have music post lag boomer as we take our friday our mundane friday a weekday and we turn it from a mundane average weekday into an arab shabbos a holy arab shabbos i want to thank our generous sponsors i'm terrified into earth shabbos our dear friends many times fishman's kosovo requests for freedom memory by jonathan sachs of the accounts even with ya today's term friday of shabbos is dedicated by maryland jeremy strauss our dear friends the strauss commemoration of the year tight last week of mr michael strauss all of a sudden and by rena and steve ransom memory of her beloved father harry plitch yosef and moshe thank you to all of our generous sponsors that is the siren that means shabbos is coming and we are running out of time to turn friday into erev shabbas i want to share with you today from our parsha but if you're listening not partial still always relevant the last pasuk at the end of our parsha compares and contrasts the observance of shabbos with the awe the fear the veneration for our holy miktash the best of the temple side to shimoru um the passage says observe and keep protect my shabbos notice again all the time throughout the homicide doesn't say my shabbos hashem regularly references my shabbos in the plural and we've shared countless time the commentaries point out that implicit within every shabbos is two shabboses there are the negative commandments there's that which we avoid there's the malacha there's the whole long list of what we can't do but that's only one part of shabbos that can't be the totality of shabbos that can't be the shabbos that we teach and model for our children the long list of what we cannot do there's also the positive of shabbos there is the serenity the peace the tranquility the joy the singing the laughter the stories the learning the sleeping there is the kiddush the there is the hamotzen there's not only the negative the avoidance there's also the positive what we fill that space with society in the plural the two components of shabbos we need to live both parts we need to live them equally so the posix says observe my shabboses and also and also have a year have a sense of oil or venerate my mikdash my holy sanctuary what are we talking about interestingly the khizkuni quotes the yerushala mitagamir xiaomi that says shab so said tishman is not talking about shabbos we're not talking about what we know ashaba is the end of every week we're talking about shemitah it means protect and observe the years of shemitah the sixth the seven years which are also called a shabbos it's talking about yovel so the his kuni is a very a very creative and novel way of interpreting this puzzle so our shemitahs yovel and the like now we understand why they are linked and lumped together they're not talking about chavez and the basement at all that's the way the his kuni understands the dasakin balayatosos understands differently he says iskesh there's a hackish between the basa miktas the temple and shabbos just like shabba supplies at all times and everywhere whether we're in israel whether in your shalom whether we're in exile whether we're in a time of redemption whether in the time of diaspora and exile we always observe shabbos oh olam shabbos always applies the fact that we live with awe and reverence for the base of maktash it also always applies even bachrobano even after the baseline has been destroyed nevertheless the temple mount rabbis maintains a sanctity it has a holiness that cannot be violated and that's why we have them together observe shabbos have all of the base of mikdash shabbos is eternal shabbas always applies the respect the treatment of the baseline maketash always applies so the pasta kashaba is contrasted with mikdash his kuni says shabbos shmita miktash's yovel nothing to do with shabbos dasa kingdom says the connection is just like shabbos always applies so too the aw the veneration for the base that make dash always applies but i want to share with you another interpretation i want to share with you another suggestion maybe of the connection between the two and it will enable us to have an appreciation of the beauty of shabbos and to turn our friday to take today and transform it into ed of shabbos it's an insight from the zaryakov zaryakov viac of ginsburg he lived in the 18th century 1743-1814 he here's a rav and a dying in prague and he writes the following we know that we have a mitzvah in shabbos it is defined objectively when simcha one has meat and wine and shabbos is not simcha shabazz's owned shabbos there's a mitzvah to get pleasure if a person gets pleasure lo alainu from milchik's oneg get out milk sanchabas whatever brings you pleasure it's a mitzvah whatever brings you oneeg defined very differently how do you fulfill the mitzvah ownig how do we fulfill joy and pleasure and happiness on shabbat zayakov says something we feel complete and we feel whole shabbos there's nothing missing there's nothing absent shabbos there's nothing lacking there is leading up to shabbos there is motei shabbos six days a week we're working we're fighting we're accumulating we're amassing six days a week we're trying to capture what's not there we're trying to heal we're trying to recover trying to be healthy we're trying to earn we're trying to accumulate six days a week we focus on not only what's there but what's missing to try to become whole that quest and that ambition to behold but shabbos we pause and for 25 hours we say enough with the rat race enough with the pursuit enough with the chase enough with the competitiveness enough with the ambition for 25 hours we rest for 25 hours we lean in and we celebrate our success for 25 hours we say there's nothing missing i am completely whole i have everything i need and that's why all week long there are 19 brachas in the amidah 13 brachas in the middle of bakasha the requests here are things that i need supplication requests things that are missing shabbos is a complete number seven the days of the week seven the days of creation seven we are whole and seven we are complete and seven we lack and need for nothing so that ability that capacity that for one day a week be sam for one day awake say i'm not going to see what's missing i'm going to see what's there i'm not going to see why i feel broken i'm going to see and focus on why i feel whole i'm not going to see what's lacking i'm going to see all around me somehow i'm going to be happy with what i have i'm going to choose because happiness is not an emotion it's a choice i'm going to focus i'm going to look at i'm going to identify and i'm going to experience i'm going to be happy with my lot i'm going to be happy with what i have i'm going to be happy with what is there that's one egg so yes the one egg of shabbos is a beautiful delicacies ohneg of shabbos a beautiful wine single malt scotch moneg of shabbos is whatever you define it tri-colored gefilte fish oniger shabbos is whatever you want it to be however many dips or side dishes however many desserts the owning of shabbos is a good schluff the owner of shabbos is a great book the owner of showers is a great board game but you know what the real owning of shabbos says the zaryakov leo helco the ability the one the greatest pleasure you could have in shabbos is not some material pleasure the greater shabbos the greatest pleasure you could have in shabbos is not some external but it's internally finding the capacity to be satisfied with our lot what does that have to do with mikdash how is that a connection so perhaps you could suggest perhaps you know when a person felt doubt or uncertainty when a person felt incomplete when a person felt broke and they would go to the baseline make dash and the mishnah tells the baseline dash there were 10 miracles that happened every single day when you felt doubt you simply went to the destination of the bayside mikdash and there you experienced you saw you witnessed those miracles and you felt confident that there's an almighty nothing in our lives is coincidence it's all carefully curated from above and you therefore recognize it's what's meant to be a person didn't feel absent or incomplete didn't feel broken person felt whole thirst and felt the presence of hashem when we go to the base of mgtosh in space is what shabbos represents in time we don't have the basel make district go to anymore we are not able to build our confidence we're not able to unburden ourselves we're not able to walk out knowing that there's a creator who is carefully not only aware of but involved in every aspect of our lives we can't achieve that in space with shabbos but we can achieve it in time we can't achieve it in space with the mikdash but we can achieve it in time with shabbos we have the privilege and the honor we have the pleasure of every single weekend at the end of a long week immersing ourselves in that place of refuge called shabbos shabbos is the time at the base of mitch was the space and even when there is no base i make dash we still have shabbos to be somehow to gain that confidence not feeling that faith to build that amuna that knowledge to return and recalibrate our compass to restore our simple sense of faith and our joy in the little things like zemiros and like a dvr torah like a geshmaq like a govaldiga story like time with our family without destruction and without competition for our time shabbos and miktash go together one in space and one in time they both build our confidence and hashem they both restore our sense of emunah in him they both restore our neshama and our sense of selves within ourselves we should all experience the oneag that incredible and unparalleled joy of samar this shabbos and every shabbos turned friday into arab shabbas by thinking about and beginning to transition to now what's missing not what's absent not what's left to do but how complete how happy we are with what we have to be somehow is the holiest and the highest oneag that there is stay happy stay healthy and stay holy [Music] comes the siren it's time to get ready time to get ready not only to shower and get dressed and set the table time to get ready to change our mentality to put on that shabbos punim upon him that is