Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #101 - The Biggest Reward is Getting to TFIES

[Music] it is time to turn friday into arab shabbos very special thank you to our generous series sponsor for the year dear friends mendington fishman it's closed for a freedom memory of and sacks of yakubu ben david arie it may look like friday calendar may say friday but it's not friday it is the holy mahila get erev we are getting ready to rock and roll with shabbos it comes that siren hope you're ready physically spiritually mentally emotionally to turn friday into erev shabbos before we dive into a beautiful torah i want to first uh just share and repeat really advaita i said at the parsha sheer i said i would be repeating today because it's from our parsha but it doesn't matter if you're listening to this on precious or in anticipation of partial kosai or any time but the parasha begins the torah tells us god promises in exchange in reward for being compliant obedient for following his will and his word hashem will make it rain in the right time make it rain that's what we say in the vernacular when we have a living and income when we're doing well when we're prosperous god is making it rain be the rainmaker so when is that right time rashi says when people don't go out of the house when you don't mind if it's raining when you're home anyway when is that reviews what are reviews so the measure should explain tara's koala it says it means sunday through wednesday but thursday and friday hashem will not make it rain and why will hashem not make it rain thursday and friday why is that reward from the khukousai teleco if you're omnitora if you toil if you work hard if you learn profoundly intensely the reward is thursday and friday are beautiful weather why so you can play golf or tennis so you can go to the club is that the reward for the melis batora no says the meadows you know what it's for the reward for amigos patora is being able to prepare for shabbos without interference without inconvenience without discomfort that when you're going out thursday and friday to shop to cook to prepare it won't be pouring rain it'll be easy you'll be able to carry your bags to your car you'll be able to push the car to your car you're not going to try to be balancing and managing an umbrella with your bags with your groceries with your shabbos what do you see from here something incredibly profound what is the reward for our melis batora the reward for amelia's battora is not wealth it's not prosperity it's not material success what is the greatest reward for the righteous who invest themselves intensely in the study of torah being able to turn friday into arab shabbas that's the reward that's the reward so when we talk about when we greet and meet every friday to talk about turning friday into arab shabbas it is an opportunity it's a blessing it's a reward that it's not mundane that it's not regular that it's not ordinary but that it's heir of shabbos to turn the ordinary into extraordinary the mundane into holy that is a reward so when we have that ability to be able to count down and prepare to fill our home with the sights and with the smells and with the recipes and the flavors when we are preparing the de vey torah the stories and these miros that is the greatest blessing when we turn friday into arab shabbos by the way we started writing up our parasha perspectives three divreitora for each of the meals three for three you could print them out part of the turn friday in the air shop is prep should be part of that preparation should be printing out the dvarator to say it at your home anyway i want to start and turn to a new safer aish hashabas a beautiful two-volume set that i got a sha-shabas these are amaran beautiful teachings and sayings having to do with the sweetness of shabbos and they are collected and organized by ruby's yoshua scheinfeld one of the mashpiye khasidos i don't know who he is but he did put together two volumes of beautiful safari called aish hashabas and here is an entry that he has we have a tradition and empirically we can measure and experience and see that the food of shabbos is more flavorful it's as if the whole week we're in black and white and shabbos in living color first of all the whole week we're not really mindful and present while we eat we're looking at our device we're running we're running late we're eating while we're actually active shabbos we sit and shabbos for hours on end we enjoy there's nothing competing for our attention or our time we're entirely mindful and present in that act of eating in that souda so the meal is more flavorful just by that but yeah the commercial test tells us that the reason is the reason shabbos food tastes better that food tastes better on shabbos is because there's a flavor and that flavor that ingredient is shabbos tavlin i have a spice says god and you know what the name of that spice is you can't find it in the supermarket and you can't order it on amazon not a supply chain issue but it's only available to those who observe and keep shabbos learning it's a special spice we have and shabbos is its name this is the gemara question why is it the food of shabbos that the the incredible fragrance wafts in the air you come into a home on a thursday on a friday oh smells like shabbos is there a better smell than shabbos the potato cocoa the chicken the meat fish the shabbos smell so where does it come from ask the quesar ask the caesar um we have an incredible spice we have an ingredient and the name of that ingredient is shabbos it's an incredible ingredient we put it into any food for shabbos and it makes it better and it makes the fragrant waft in the air lotion so the quesar said no hand it over give me a little let me try some on my local mashable sashamas moello it doesn't work it doesn't work you can't buy them yehuda it doesn't come in a little plastic bag and you sprinkle a little bit into your soup into your challenge onto your chicken it's not something that you could buy and add as an ingredient if you observe and you keep shabbos then you can feel the taste and the smell of shabbos and if you're not immersed if you're not connected with if you're not transformed by if you're not excited about shabbos then you don't taste you don't smell it doesn't have its impact and wonders this beautiful shisei for asia shabbos he wonders how do we get a spiritual taste a spiritual smell into a physical food a physical food is purely physical but that transformation of observing shabbos entering into and elevating the food of shabbos how does that work how do we transform something physical through something spiritual that doesn't seem to make much sense and the answer is that the taste and the joy the pleasure that's spiritual is the inner connection to god which can be found in a food and which literally gives us life food is our life source food is the way we live if a person doesn't eat they can't live so what nourishes the nutrients our body needs to take in food in order to live god design such a world which means that the almighty godliness the source of life can be found where in food itself when we eat food we're not only engaging something that is superficial and physical when we eat food we are tapping into and making contact with the source of life the source of life are not just the nutrients and the nourishments in the food but they are the creator of that namely perishable and that's the bashem says whose yurt site is today for whom my review raheli is named her favorite pasuk tamuru ukitav hashem even lying in her hospital but at the end of her life she used to say tamaru taste and you will see that hashem is good hashem kasha thomas when you taste something good when you see the good in what you're tasting meaning you're not just tasting it for your taste buds it's not a gastrointestinal experience but you're tasting the spiritual and the physical you're tapping into and making contact with the divine with the source of all life in that which gives us life then you say wow this food this drink it's amazing keeps me alive it extends my life it gives me energy to serve you so the tanakh is the mathias hashem the experience of the positive pleasant taste is the presence the essence of hashem that is the essence of hashem so now that we know that the taste and the pleasantness and the joy that's intrinsic in food is the soul of creation bashabashima's all week long we're pampering we're indulging we're chasing we're pursuing the physical our physical selves and more material physical things but shabbos which is the day on our calendar the day of our week where we disengage from the world around us and we pause and break from the insatiable pursuit of more in the physical world and we're devoted and we concentrate on the spiritual on our soul on our family and our friends our governing and our learning our laughter are fun we're disconnected from manipulating and controlling nature in the world it is the day that is our soul so now we're able to make contact with the soul in the food the food isn't just something physical the food we're able to connect with the spiritual in the food and who and what is the source of the spiritual in the food hashem is so now all food is transformed when it is cooked for and eaten on shabbos when it doesn't have the distractions of the rest of the week when it is not a material superficial physical experience but we're making connection with hashem manifest through the food which sustains our life when our soul's antenna is more attuned and more susceptible and picking up greater the signal now that is the spice called shabbos that is the spice um our heart and our soul are more connected to the eating and drinking and that's why so many of them to say look at shabbos code dish before i eat i'm not just eating like i do all week long which is physical it's like i'm tasting and i'm imbibing that spice called shabbos and what is the spice of shabbos the spice of shabbos is the presence of mind and the concentration it is the mindfulness and consciousness to see you in everything including or especially in the food itself don't forget to sign up for our one plus one campaign a minute a day of learning and a dollar a day of stukka in the merit of esther tilas of sd moscowitz beerusonline dot org brsonline.org slash uh one and one you can see it on the screen sign up yours online dot work slash one and one the shabbos concentrate find the coach in the food we'll pick up next week not only in the food but in the song as well and the singing this mirrors which is why they're so important and intrinsic to shabbos until next time this shabbos stay happy stay healthy and stay holy [Music] everybody