Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #109 - Light of Shabbos

good air showers and welcome back to turn friday into arab shabbos after a break we are back and we are better than ever want to thank our generous sponsors mandate for fishman alfredo thank you so much for your generosity it's time to get ready the countdown the holiest most beloved part of our week the halogen is here comes that siren and it's time to get ready we have started learning together morgan from beyond shabbos is brand new beautiful safer and we last last off talking about tapping into the mesikas and noam shabbas the sweetness and the pleasure and the joy and the beauty the own egg of shabbos yant of simcha meat and wine external stimulants that create simcha but shabbos is one egg there's a pleasure we let go we lean in we rest we can turn off we can disconnect so we can connect and all of that yields a sense of one egg a slowing down a tuning in a sense of pleasure richard meyer points out that in order to be able to tap into something to draw the most out of it you need to best understand it we're still in the mavon the introduction to the beautiful new safer behind champions is a beautiful gift hashem holds for us in his storehouse the shabbos shema its name is literally israel i want to give it to the jewish people go and tell them so you see the prerequisite to receiving and experiencing shabbos is hashem tells moshe go teach them tell them let them understand it shabbos doesn't happen to you you know on friday you don't just cook and clean and set a table and shower and then chambers descends upon you shabbos is not passive you don't fall into it by accident it takes mindfulness and thoughtfulness it takes an attitude and a transformation understand learn experience the depth of what it means the first thing we have to do in order to be elevated uplifted enriched empowered by the know i'm the pleasantness the sweetness of shabbos to have a clarity tomorrow what is what is this day really all about what is shabbos is it simply the cessation of work are we simply stopping the the technology and the electronics and how is it lifting us and elevating us and here we have a lesson a principle is there is a light of shabbos it can penetrate into us it can lift us it can give us life but it takes effort it's an avodah it's it takes effort a person has to put in the avodah the effort the mindfulness the thoughtfulness person has to work on understanding what it is so we can take everything that we want out it doesn't just happen it's not simply that you turn off the technology and you have shabbos a person has to lean in and understand and embrace and be mindful shabbos kodashi we say in in the beautiful of my favorite zama rival and carliner shabbas kaidosh the holy shabbos soul is sick in love for you the god of the god tells us in shirashiram when it talks about the the sickness of loving hashem he says the worst sickness there is there are all kinds of diseases and illnesses and sicknesses and viruses epidemic pandemics there are all kinds of challenges the worst sickness is the sickness of the soul when the soul is disconnected when the soul is discouraged when the soul is despondent when the soul is distanced from hashem but when we're tuned in and tapped in when we are connected when we're charging when we know there's something bigger and better than ourselves when we feel elevated when we restore our very soul we heal our soul my soul is sick and longs for you and shabbos is the day shabbos is the time that it doesn't have to be sick and long it can connect and tap in you know the image of a cell phone or a device the battery is drained and you're watching it it's at 50 20 you're ever traveling you're at a simha and your phone is dying and you're holding on you put on the power save mode and you lower all the brightness and then you take it off the wi-fi and the bluetooth you do everything you can to preserve whatever little battery you have and you're holding on three percent two percent and then you can plug in someone's got a plug ah i'm alive it didn't die i'm still connected lahav de la havdil and really in many ways the opposite that's what all week long is sunday monday tuesday my battery is getting depleted my spiritual battery 100 80 70 sometimes friday comes five percent four percent three percent shabbos i plug in shabbos i power up shabbos i connect to the source to the core to what really matters i overcome that illness of the soul of feeling disconnected and drained your mother quotes from the arizona there is always a s writes that shabbos is not just the absence of work it's not just that in shabbas we're not doing creative labor so that we're more aware of and mindful of hashem shabbas is not just the cessation and the absence of work creative labor malacha shabas is a greater light that shines of hashem hashem is more revealed in a clearer and more accessible way than he is the rest of the week so all week long we look and we long all week we're searching and yearning all week we're getting static we're frustrated it's buffering come shabbos high speed come shabbos we're able to feel his presence our davening there's nothing buzzing or beeping or device that we want to check there's no to-do list or tasks shabbos we can be present in that davening shabbos table that conversation there's no distraction no one's taking a picture no one's posting anyone's reading no and scrolling no one's running everyone can be present shabbos this mirror is the learning shabbos even the nap shabba is the reading all of it is hashem's light it's more exposed it's more revealed it's more accessible in the six days the world was created during the six weeks of creation hashem designed the world in such a way in which he is more hidden in which there is a veil all week long it feels like the world is its own place i work and i earn a living i make an effort and it brings results as if hashem is out of the equation he's hidden there's a barrier or a veil um that's why the world is called in hebrew the world is when we think that there's nature in a natural order when we think that we are in charge of our own destiny when we think that we have control it blocks the truth of the source namely that there is hashem so all week long hashem created and we operate in an olam that is a world of hiddenness but then besides for this reason hashem gifted us he granted us the great shabbos shabbat may erum is shabbos we're not in the olam it's shabbos we're not in the world of hiddenness shabbos is a taste it is a window it is a glimpse it is access into that of the world to come the light of the infinite one is revealed it shines it's bright it is something that's radiant um there is no one and nothing else all week long we think there's the stock market in bitcoin and google all week long we think that they're armies and they're waging war that there's politicians and they're giving speeches but chavez comes we disconnect from all of that and we remember and remind ourselves ain't ode milva though there is no one and nothing but you they see the world doesn't exist on its own you sustain it all so all week long we live in the world of creation six days you created the olam which is hidden and we are searching and yearning because you're hidden from us but shabbos is a brighter light all there is is you only you you alone only you the english we don't have any ability on our own vain tava nick recall there is no nature there is no coincidence there is no chance you are the source of absolutely everything so cover the takeaway from today the message from today the turn friday into arab shabbos of today is a reminder the chavez is not just the cessation of work shabbos is not just that we turn off of technology and then mama shabbas is there shabbos there is a greater light there is a greater access there's greater revelation now it's up to us to tap into it pull back the veil pull back the layers of the onion remove the impediments and the obstacles and let the light of the ribonuslum the light of the holy shabbos shine through have a fantastic shabbos everybody come with shabbos kaidash hi here we go look all good have a great job and stay happy stay healthy and stay holy