Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #105 - Greet Shabbos with Wealth and Honor

welcome back [Music] the three weeks or about a period of sadness tragedy of loss shabbos is that place of refuge within that sad time shabbos is what lifts us shabbos is what gives us that impression of possibility shabbos lets us know what is coming it's a beautiful tefillah that some say friday night and before they say the beautiful beautiful tribono rebon kola master of all worlds help us prepare help us get ready help us open the door help us see the glory of who you are and who we can become and in that context in our longing we ask hashem we took o it's a beautiful song of zacchaeus may we merit to receive shambhasmith you can only receive shabbos from the context of simcha even though even though the nine days we lower the level of simsa but you can never extinguish or turn off the simcha altogether a jew has to be tommy to be happy a happy atmosphere a happy attitude a happy disposition a happy demeanor a happy greeting a happy and joyful approach and attitude you can only be macabre shabbos shabbos can only truly be received you can only be the macabre shabbos from a place of abundant joy um has to be from a place of wealth and honor and herein lies the question what do you mean you accept shabbos from wealth and honor i thought those are attributes or concepts that we disdain that we reject that we run away from what do you mean that on a friday we're turning friday into our shabbos we only receive shabbos from a place of osha from a place of wealth and a place of honor so perhaps you can understand covered a little bit differently cover doesn't mean our honor our glory we know that in fact bullock and bilam in our parsha that was the kryptonite that compromised their corruption came from all they cared about was honor honor and glory and their name and their reputation and it brought about their demise a person who pursues honor honor runs away from them person who is consumed by honor it's one of the three things that removes a person from the world altogether so what does it mean what does it mean you receive shabbos and maybe the answer is that the cover that we're seeking is not our cover means covered shabbos that a person who understands the primacy the significance the centrality a person who appreciates and understands the beauty of shabbos that's covet shabbos if you live life with covered shabbos kabbah chavez doesn't begin when you like candles friday night kobe chavez doesn't even begin on friday when you cook or set the table kamachabis is all week long kawachabas is all week long when each thing we see we say look at this one we fulfill the mitzvah of remembering shabbos not only with kiddush friday night we fulfill that mitzvah when we remember shabbos all week long who are we having what are we cooking what is the menu which menu are we davoning at what torah do we have prepared what story are we going to tell when we put in the energy and the effort when we prepare for shabbos we think about shabbos always long we give shabbos that covered me doesn't mean our cover our honor our glory it doesn't mean that people are impressed by what we provide or what we have but maybe mitochondria and the same thing we talk osha osha doesn't mean the wealth as in the wealth uh measured by the expense of the crystal and the silverware and the china by the delicacies the wealth means the wealth that we weigh we see shabbos the way we see shabbos if salvation describes that in warsaw when he was in warsaw every block there were multiple shulls and as shabbos ended he found himself in a much of steeple and there was yanko and he asked the uncle knew they're singing shabbos was never ending so he turns to this person whom you think he thought he didn't know and he said new when does shabbos end how many songs are we going to sing is it almost over and he turned to the rav who was a young man at the time and he said it's me yanko the porter you don't recognize me and if salvation described that all week long yankel was a poor porter he carried he schlepped and he he was disheveled and he was indigent and he was poor and here he was on shabbos wearing his bakish on a strymo and the love described the becker she had more holes than it had cloth and yet he was so regal and he was so loyal yank of the porter was transported transformed into yankov the prince shabbos has the capacity to give osha usher before and he turned to the rav by the way and he said to him do you love the weekday so much that you can't wait for shabbos to end do you love the weekday so much that you can't wait to get back to it you can't wait for shabbos to end what a message and what a lesson but i think maybe that's what it means is the cover shabbos are we thinking about shabbos are we thoughtful for shabbos do we honor shabbos are we wearing clothing big day shabbos is our speech elevated for shabbos do we show the respect and the honor through our preparation through our dress through our speech through our topics of conversation and mitochoshere are we elevated do we transform our entire demeanor do we put on our shabbos upon him that whatever challenge whatever struggle and whatever form of poverty we face all week maybe spiritual or other roots that shabbos comes me talk oh share the cover the ocean and feel shabbos with the cover the weightiness covered comes from caved weighty and heavy the weightiness and the heaviness and the holiness of shabbos on osha we should feel wealthy and rich if we have a shabbos table if we're invited to someone else's shabbos table if we have shabbos neshul if we have a shabbos the holy shabbos we can immerse ourselves in it elevates us we are wealthy wishing everyone a wholly happy and a healthy shabbos [Music]