Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #112 - A Shabbos of Taking Stock

a good naira of Shabbos everyone it is not Friday it is Arab Chavez and we are here to turn Friday into Arab Shabbos big thank you to our series sponsor dear friends many support fisherman this morning this afternoon today's turn Friday into our Shabbos is also responsible for the full and all those who are ill may they have a complete a speedy and a painless Refuge Lima it is almost a siren it is almost Shabbos it is time to turn Friday into arev Shabbos now in many ways this may seem and feel like an ordinary an ordinary Friday an ordinary era of Shabbos but is everything but today is not just Friday it's not just a regular Shabbos even though rosh hashama does not begin until Sunday night it really in many ways already begins now this is the last Shabbos of the year and as such it is a special special Shabbos it is no ordinary Shabbos swasemus writes about this Shabbos he writes of him immediately we would be redeemed and we've shared so many messages some say the two shabbases we have to observe to be redeemed are Shabbos others say that on any given shamas there are two shabbases say there are the 39 creative labors we have to avoid and then there's the positive element of Shabbos that we have to create however here the sasama says shop as far summer suggests you know which two shabbases we have to observe if we want to be redeemed a personal Redemption to discover who we are and who we could be and a collective Redemption because we long for the Gula I'll call them the two shabbats that we have to observe to feel redeemed are the last Shabbos of the year and the first Shabbos of the Year each of these have their own role their own place each of them have their own avoda what we're meant to do so however this is no ordinary Shabbos this is not just oh yeah the last Shabbos until Rosh Hashanah rest up eat well we have Rosh Hashanah coming Shabbos itself is pregnant with possibility filled with opportunity this is the last Shabbos of the year it is the shamas to take stock in the year to think about the year that we had to take pride in what we got right what we accomplished how we grew to take pride in the air of Shabbos and the Shabbos as we've experienced and also to identify where we need work how we have to grow what Kabbalah is going to take upon herself cells next week will be the first Shabbos of the year the Shabbos of of Shabbos first Shabbos of the year that will set the tone for the entire year that follows it'll be the opportunity to apply all of our new kabbalahs all of our new intent as the posix says um God blessed the seventh day Shabbos is filled with bracha it is we say in our darling the Mercure bracha Shabbos is the source of all braca if you fly through Shabbos if you don't long for Shabbos and you can't wait for Shabbos to end if you don't have Shabbos and observe Shabbos then you're missing such a bra in your life Shabbos is that bracha of time together of restoring our sanity of unplugging and disconnecting to connect to what matters we know how much we long for and what Shabbos means it is filled with Brock it is anytime something is filled with bracha or has bracha it is it is coming and going as we just read last week in last week's parisha blessed in your coming blessed and you're going when we want blessing we want blessing in both directions blessing and coming blessing and going so Shabbos so next week Shabbos will give the bracha to the whole year that will follow everything follows the beginning everything follows the head so the first Shabbos of the year will set the tone for all the shabbases of the year that follow however this Shabbos is the havdala the disconnect from the year that was the final Shabbos of the year we're going to capture and battle we're going to reflect and introspect we're going to hold on to and choose what to let go of of the whole year it's the havdala from the year that came before and next Shabbos will be the kiddish of the year that is to come as the Zohar says in truma yes both when Shabbos comes in and when it goes out there's kids there's joy so this is the last Shabbos of the year the havdala of the year next Shabbos will be the first Shabbos of the year the Kiddush of the year the Champions that is the beautiful beautiful Insight so it feels like an ordinary Shabbos cooking and Jewel and all the usual right wrong we have to be mindful and aware it is the last Shabbos of the Year this is a chance and an opportunity to direct our Shabbos conversations at the Shabbos table let's collectively reflect on the year let's talk about the year that was what are the highlights which were the best Shabbos is what were the best Shabbos meals what were the best Shabbos guess what were the best Shabbos conversations let's talk about the year that was let's pull out the highlights we want to hold on to let's talk about what we want to let go of and work on and improvements also writes in The Sovereign means to stand upright to stand firm but if something comes from the same word as matseiva a matseiva is a monument we're reading it some from the end of the year to place a monument to the year that was tough Shin pay base what does tough Shin pay base mean to you we're about to go to topshan pay gimmel but what is Tashan pay base what happened this year any similar in your life many loss in life where dreams realized or did they did they not happen what is what was this year in its oven what is the matseiva we give we create to honor and to remember and to commemorate the year that was but our years can't blend or bleed into one another they're not supposed to just flow one into the other that we just don't remember oh that decade oh that half century oh that whole lifetime it's all one big blur it all Blends together we have to place these markers these Milestones these might save us Ahmad Seva says that year ended what's the matter what's then it's of him how do I capture that year what is included in that year and now I begin the next year we have to create dividers dividers in order to break apart the year the timeline and not only the timeline for the sake of of being of maintaining time but breaking apart the timeline so that we can honor and recognize and appreciate the elements that happened within it obviously and we have to strengthen ourselves since this as it says this is when we take stock we do husband we build and we create of that last year this Farm Shabbos is Heavenly voice to us come back come back home Return To Your Roots and certainly this last Shabbos more than any it is a Shabbos of return it as the Shabbos are coming back this is the Shabbos of the story but it's also a Shabbos of awareness of awareness of the year that was so this Shabbos passes that the end of TAF shenpai Bay is our last Shabbos the last Friday being turned into an era of Shabbos make the most of it let this Friday not be Friday this Friday if we turn it into Arab Shabbos we end the year with a bang we could start the year on a high and everything can follow after that follows let's place a monument and a marker let's take stock let's have Converse conversations let's be nostalgic and let's remember and let's promise and pledge and plan for how we come out of the gate next Shabbos next year the first Shabbos of the year that everything will follow from there wishing everyone a sweet a healthy a happy and a holy Shabbos and I'm wishing everyone [Music] let's go