Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #103 - Save us Some Shabbos for Shabbos

[Music] welcome back turn friday into arab shabbos the getting air of shabbos to all this is not friday it is shabbos and we can't wait we can't stop counting down and getting ready so exciting i want to thank our generous sponsors of the series for the year mendy and seapora fishermen are dear friends of schools i support the fredo memories of jonathan sacks of yaakov david arya also a big thank you to today's sponsor joe blumenthal sarah blumenthal member of joe's father george blumenthal george was a pillar of the farakaway community and joe wish him good health and happiness only the best of everything that is the siren and it is time to turn friday into erev chavez i want to share with you a brand new safer a brand new book that came out my good friend shirley besser called exalted moments welcoming shabbos slowly breastfeed doesn't put out swarm you have to buy a subscription as a surrogate store owner said to me to the frequency with which she puts out books and he tells a beautiful story here which really i think is very powerful image and can inspire us and energize us to turn friday into arab shabbos he says the following the shaman gets ready to expand his open wide is ready to receive to be macabre shabbos we call it kabbalah shabbos it's not just that shabbos descends upon us on monday night we're not makable tuesday tuesday night we're not macabre wednesday each of those nights as the sun sets we transition to the next calendar day the hebrew calendar begins at night not in the morning but there's no kabbalah there's no acceptance that's taking place there's no transition that's a meaningful transition but that's not true friday night friday night we go from friday from arab shabbos to shabbos to a kabbalah shabbos we receive shabbos we accept shabbos same way that a visitor comes to your door knocks on your door you're excited the same way there's a guest who's coming the same way you can't wait to welcome someone family member a dignitary an old friend your macabel macabre panama saver macabum became the savior part of the office you accept you receive with a positive disposition so so too shabbos we're macabre shabbos we have to receive it takes a mindfulness and consciousness you don't have to be aware at sunset that monday is turning to tuesday tuesday wednesday wednesday to thursday you don't have to be mindful or intentional you have to be conscientious or conscious you want to be present at all that transition that change happens then new day comes but it's not true when it comes to shabbos shabbas we recite shabbas we sing shabbas there is a kabbalah shabbos we're makaba shabbas so listen to what he says something so beautiful he says would tell the of the phila he overheard late on a friday afternoon in the corner of a small steeple a young man stood swaying back and forth preparing for shabbos with its feeling he himself had composed a personal request to his master ribono shalomy said you gave me so much you gave me wine for shabbos you gave me khala for shabbos and fish for shabbos now re-bonus shalom i ask for just one more thing please please give me some shabbos for shabbos this is the call of those final moments of the day of the week of the world that has passed give us a bit of save us a bit of shabbos for shabbos and then like a promise kept it descends a blanket of peace spreading across the world the whisper issuing forth from the depths of the earth and rising to the heavens good shabbas yiddin good shabbos it's a beautiful uh a beautiful page a beautiful insight from surly besser in his book that story about brim give us some shabbos for shabbos you know we invest so much time and so much effort we prepare so much we set our table and we have fine china and we have silverware and we have crystal we set aside beautiful often expensive wine we prepare and we cook delicacies we have dry clean shirts and beautiful suits and dresses we're all ready for shabbas externally as we're makable shabbos when we receive when we accept shabbos we say thank you thank you for all of those things but most of all please don't just save us some fish and some meat some soup and some wine don't just save us some beautiful clothing and a set table don't just give us each of those things for shabbos save us some shabbos for shabbos the spirit of shabbos the soul of shabbos not just the body the goof of shabbos we last left off when we talked about that in the form of the tavlin the gemara refer to a spice there is something intangible two people can make the same recipe but it turns out so differently when you put shabbos into the shabbos food it tastes like shabbos but if your mind lists if you're distracted you're talking you're listening to something else if your focus is elsewhere if you're taking a leftover to serve it for shabbos but it was prepared for the weekday and it doesn't have the taste the soul of shabbos ribonus don't just give us the physical material possessions accoutrements don't just give us the physical stimuli and and things that facilitate shabbos save us some shabbos for shabbos the tavlin this intangible table is the shabbos with the governor in shabbos and of course test tells us that there is a spice and it's called shabbos and others can follow the recipe they can't add that spice that spice is uniquely ours it's uniquely jewish it belongs uniquely to the hidden to the jews and there's another sort of intangible can't capture it it's not physical and yet it contributes so much to the essence the theme the energy of what shabbos is all about and that is the negan shabbos the melody and the song of shabbos we know that i'm reading now from a beautiful safer i picked up called aish hashabas hashabas kodesh and it says the following there's something there's a skip in our step there's a rhythm there's a melody there's an energy to song on a monday night tuesday night on a thursday night at dinner you don't sing maybe if it's someone's birthday or anniversary but you're not moved to song you don't sing but shabbos what is shabbos without the background music without the background song but that the background melody of zemiros and this appears in our should have many songs expand and dwell on a repertoire of songs a pleasantness to be lifted to be enriched to be empowered the rama listen to the language of the rama the rammar of muslims different places different customs one zimmer two zamar two zemiros or sing the entire night long don't protest don't object somebody who dwells on them somebody who sings at length even though the person objecting says get to the base of marriage to learn do something more productive with time but in that moment there is nothing more productive to fill to fill the shabbos table to fill the shabbos home with the songs of shabbos with the sounds of shabbos with the melody of shabbos that's how we nourish the soul there's the body of shabbos and the body loves the gefilte fish and the coco the chicken and the meat and the soup and the matzo matzabal the body loves the physical pleasures of shabbos but the soul longs for that spice that intangible the tavlin the soul longs for the song the melody that moves us that moves us we know the power of song power of song can move us to tears power of song can transport us to another place and another time power of song can touch us and our soul in a very very deep way and that's why the shahana records in rama expands on the significance and the meaning and the importance of tapping into that spirituality the melody and i would argue if that's true for shabbos it's also true for heir of shabbos to have music playing we spoke in the ammunition this week to be bisimra when it's quiet and it's silent and you can hear an echo of your own sounds you get filled with sadness but when you wake up friday morning and you have the shabbos playlist playing these miros the shabbos the shabbos songs the shabbos melodies the arab shabbas music there's a skip in your step there's an energy when you're getting ready everybody shower change set the table set up the candles and there's music playing in the background spontaneously want to dance want to skip on a hop you're getting ready you're energized there are people you put on music and they can't not move some images that came out last month philadelphia when the uh the great warriors of torah 20 000 packed the stadium and it was all observant torah jews but the security team the custodial team of the arena when that music came on they couldn't help but move they started to dance videos made the rounds and went viral of non-jewish security staff non-jewish custodial staff of this arena filled with 20 000 observant jews but they couldn't help you can't sit still when music comes on you have to move you're compelled your body is lifted quite literally so if that's true on shabbos it's true for air of shabbos to take air of shabbos and to be moved to be lifted to be enriched the power of zmiros the power of song will continue with this amir hashem next time that's what they shall not they're talking about this hashem saves some shabbos for shabbos you know if you cook and you clean you set the table and you're prepared you change your clothing and then you pass out at the table you have nothing left you didn't save any shabbos for shabbos you saved food for shabbos and drink for shabbos beverage hard and soft you saved your suit your clothing but you didn't save any shabbos for shabbos that spice that intangible that is able to permeate and penetrate our food and our atmosphere and our environment that moves us that lifts us that will be what our children and our family will remember if you want to create a continuity of a love of shabbos it's not only the goof of the body but we have to speak to the soul we have to be able to enrich and elevate to create that skip that step to create that rhythm and that movement that is nourishing the soul till next time stay happy stay healthy stay holy [Music] aya shabbas when you make that playlist you have to add this song the covered shabbos the cover dish what a song what a rhythm now go get ready turn around shabbos turn friday into arief shabbas have a great job