Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #104 - Get Happy

welcome back to turn friday into arab shabbos as always a big thank you to our generous series of sponsors for the humanity for fishman for a fatal memory regular jones attacks for [Music] our whole week our whole essence the coveted shabbos okay sure comes that siren here comes heir of shabbos let's turn friday into arab shabbos time to get ready so these are kurdish has a very beautiful thought i want to begin by sharing with you this is our code that says the word air of shabbos we call friday we're turning friday into arab shabbos erev means the eve friday is not friday friday is the eve of shabbas we're getting ready we're preparing we are transitioning the helicopter says the word erev comes from heir of tyroves atarovas means a mixture friday is not mundane friday is not the week it's also not shabbos shabbos has not yet arrived shabbos has not come shabbos only comes when we accept receive shabbos as of or when the sun sets and then the holiness and sanctity of shabbos fall upon us the obligations and restrictions of shabbos we are bound by so friday is sort of no man's land shabbos is neither the pure mundane profane week nor is it yet the sanctity of shabbos arab shabbos is a tarouvis it is a mixture it is a mixture still of the weekday but the beginning of the hints of the sparks of the holiness of shabbos and that is how we're meant to feel we wake up friday to a tarouvis we are in a state of a mixture it's not the purely mundane it's not purely the weekday like the rest of our week was and yet we're not yet there immersed in the fully holy of shabbos we are in a period that is a tarouvis we are an erev we're in an erev we're in a period that is a mixture of the two we have been learning and looking through this beautiful saver called hashabas the light the fire of shabbos and he quotes the following he says particular emphasized the notion not only of doing the mitzvah but of preparing for the mitzvah with every mitzvah ah but when it comes to other mitzvos the real obligation is the mitzvah the preparation we do will change the quality of the mitzvah so the hachana is not really a mitzvah in its own right it's not an independent separate mitzvah the preparation that we do in advance of the mitzvah will improve the experience of the mitzvah but it's not in its own right of mitzvah that's different when it comes to shabbos when it comes to arab shabbos the preparations for shabbos there is a special mitzvah this is an independent special mitzvah and the fact that higash says quotes and proves from here that when you prepare when you get ready when you invest when you have intention when you choose to be mindful we the goal the reason for abir khasa mitzvah is to focus us you say abraham before doing the mitzvah as a preparation in advance so that we're focused so that we can extract and derive and get everything out of the mitzvah and put everything into the mitzvah that were meant to do that's true for shabbos more than for any other mitzvah more than for any other mitzvah however there are two separate things here yomoshishi valhalla shabbas sorry there are not two separate things here he says here is beautiful isha shabas lest we think there's friday i read on the check it's friday today i look at my calendar it's friday the header on my email says it's friday oh also i have to get ready for shabbos so it's both friday and then it has imposed upon it components of i need to get ready for shabbos that's a mistake that's wrong it's incorrect it's inaccurate it's not that it's also friday and also the theme of i have to get ready for shabbos but rather as the possible view friday is heir of shabbos there is no other identity to it there is no secular notion of friday to it heir of shabbos arab shabbos is a distinct unique time there's no another like it is is no it's the end of the week and it's also getting ready for shabbos it is entirely in its essence in its theme its identity it is entirely about getting ready what do we wake up to our shabbos era of shabbos music mix hopefully we wake up to a table which is already set hopefully we wake up to an environment which is on friday which is already heir of shabbos le his honey shabbos suffers the entire essence of friday is a countdown clock you wake up friday with a countdown clock not a countdown clock that instills a panic how will we get ready there's so much to do everybody rush not a countdown clock that creates tension and conflict and friction between all the people and what needs to get done but it's a countdown clock with excitement the way one counts down to a vacation to a break to time off the way you count down to being done with school or with work it is a countdown clock to get to the tactless le myserious shabbos is the tacos it's not that i rest on shabbos to get back to the week it's that i work all week for the payday for the payoff which is shabbos so friday friday is all about counting not down but up counting up to shabbos excitement anticipation energy joy joy that's what we're meant to do that's how we're meant to get ready friday corresponds with the sphere of yasod the tallest yankee of yosef bahar the great student of the bashem writes the three components of who we are each receives and accepts and transitions to shabbos in its own way the nephesh in order to get a nephesh of shabbos is myceos it's action ruach is through dibor through the speech the vocabulary of shabbos and arab shabbas and the shama is yasod which is yosef hamas how do we get you sowed preparation anticipation getting ready that attitude mission is all about his casters it's about connection it's about connection person is offline we're going online we're going offline technologically we're going offline from the super highway of the internet but by going offline from technology we're getting online with hashem maybe maybe all week long we're buffering in our connection with hashem shabbas kurdish comes there's no interruption there's no distraction there's no interference there's no static all week long we're buffering in that connection shabbos comes and by disconnecting to technology we get a high speed connection to him and to the people around us and to ourselves shabbos is all about his castras but that is casual that connection only comes relative to and proportional to the preparation we put in what we do to get ready what we do to get ready the rambam writes in the rambam a great dignitary a celebrity if a powerful person were coming to visit you to stay with you you wouldn't be ready and prepared early you won't be outside and waiting to greet them that's our attitude towards shabbos it's not uh let's make late shabbas i want to stretch out a friday as much as i can i want to minimize shabbos start it as late as possible it's the opposite sometimes you have to make la chaves there's nothing wrong with it but i can't wait for shabbos i'm counting down i'm counting up to shabbos i'm longing for shabbos yoshi because i'm serious about the arrival of shabbos er shabbos i already feel in a state of a tyroves i'm already a mixture i'm still in the weekday the mundane but i'm already getting ready i'm already counting up this fast samus quotes the legend says and it was on the sixth day vacation you could do for shabbos is yes you have to cook yes you have to clean yes you have to set the table yes you have to shower and shave yes you have to turn and put on your beautiful clothing yes there are so many physical things to do get ready for shabbos but the biggest for shabbas is to get happy the biggest thing you can do for shabbos is to go from being negative and down and pessimistic and complaining never neg turn from being in a state of sadness or despair and hopelessness the biggest preparation for shabbos is to get happy don't worry be happy don't worry be happy you're going to get taste of olam haba a taste of the world to come a taste of a place in which there is no worry and there is no sadness we put all of our troubles up on a shelf after haldal they come back down but for 24 25 hours it's a taste of friday gets so excited because why i'm going to be filled with a time period of such happiness and so use the rest of today get ready be bisimra put in that music put a skip in your step listen to things that will make you laugh put a smile on your face and join us then with shabbos which is filled with happiness shabbos filled with healthiness shabbos filled with holiness have a wonderful shabbos [Music] ayesha get ready put on that smile biba simcha have a fantastic show everybody