Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #116 - Shaaaaaaabos

my goodness I was everyone welcome back to you from Friday to Aaron Chavez today is not Friday today we have officially entered the winter months big thank you to our series sponsor the surprise mending Department of Jobs and facts of yakult thank you so much for your generosity here comes that siren better get ready it's time to turn this Friday into area we're gonna dive right back into our bayams how beautiful teachings of Victor Meyer Morgan's turn on out of Shabbos but I want to share with you I want to share with you a little something a little something beautiful that I heard my friend eitan rostin said how do we begin Kabbalah Shabbos with the words go you're not going to experience Shabbos when you sit still you're not going to experience Shabbos you're a passive and stationary you got to get into Shabbos go make Shabbos prepare Shabbos get ready for Shabbos one has to invest themselves and engage themselves and be active themselves and get and go and get ready what is that preparation how do we get ready so number one the first thing is we ended last week with this you gotta get ready you don't shop you don't cook you don't set the table you don't lay out your clothing you're not going to be ready you're not going to tap into the beauty of Shabbos number two there's a whole world of the Torah of Shabbos you know many of us think that Shabbos is really all about when we engage learning about Chavez what do we think about la metas malagos can do and can't do what is all of that list but Adventure my reminds us there's a whole world in a whole Torah there's a whole area of literacy there's a whole area of total literature about Shabbos that's not about the do's and don'ts it's not about the laws and restrictions but it's about the Beauty and the depth it's about the panemias learn about Shabbos we're living in a time we're so blessed there are more books and so I'm like the one we're learning and others which are opening up a world they're giving us a vocabulary they're giving us an entrance they're giving us the instruments and the tools they're creating the platform to really observe Shabbos to not think of Shabbos as what I can do I can't do to not think of Shabbos as restrictions or limitations but to think of Shabbos as opportunity and invitation from The Many Men hug him and customs and understanding why we do what we do how to cut the how many times to dip it in Salt what we wear on Shabbos and at our Shabbos table the think of a curriculum for conversations thought-provoking questions and delivery Torah and insights songs and games and reading there's so much more to Shabbos than those laws those laws are there to reinforce the experience but not to be in place of the experience but how are you going to get the experience if you don't know what you're looking to get if you don't know what it looks like if you've never been there before and that's where we have the richness of learning about Shabbos you know we we Jews in yiddishka we don't think of ishavis this isn't just damn Shabbos this is Shabbos parishes why do we think of the Shabba says Shabbos parces it's not just Shabbos based on the date in November or based on the date of it's identified and associated with the Parsha of that Shabbos why because even though we read the Parsha every year even though we review that cycle each and every year annually but each year we're different the world is different and what we see and what we take from and how that Parsha is speaking to us is Illuminating the path is offering us perspective and Clarity in this world is different every year so it's not just um Shabbos not every week is the same Shabbos over and over and over again this is Shabbos parsha's Vieira and it's different than Chavez Persia's tough shouldn't pay base last year and it's different that Shabbos parishes will be next year this is Shabbos who are we what's happening in the world what's happening in our family and what do we see in this Parsha what's in this Parsha this week that's speaking to us which Nissan which test of average are we going through or which positive experience which bris are we making and gifts are we getting what is going on in our lives what are we laughing about because we didn't expect it to happen like Sarah and avram are all of a sudden rewarded with this Davin so many years how does parsha's Valera speak to you this year but you can't see the world through the lens of the Parsha if you don't learn the Parsha so aside of being a halach obligation an imperative we're supposed to learn the past each and every week so that we can understand it know it be inspired and informed by it but also it is the way that we interpret the world around us and the conversations that happen at our shabba's table it is the way we experience the Shabbos it's not Shabbos Shabbos parishes how do we experience that we understand it what will we take from it and the Parsha is hidden the light of that Shabbos so suggestion number two what is the how do we get ready how do we turn Friday into Arab Shabbos Cesar is you got to learn about Shabbos you could learn the shamas you could learn you could learn incredible ribiat's book or the art scroll books or countless other books about the laws of Shabbos but also dive into the premias the depth of Shabbos whether it's a Meyer or countless others who talk to us and Elevate us I'll give you one example one vort brought it down last week ahead look at Insight by the holy ruptured sir the rupture says the following he says in the word Shabbos itself the name for this day what is the name for the seventh day of the week what is the name of the day that we rest it's called Shabbos and how is it punctuated so the holy Rapture writesh how do you begin to pronounce the word Shabbos how you begin to experience Shabbos with the shin with the Patak underneath it you know how you say Shabbos and you know how you experience Shabbos when you begin with Shah when you quiet your mind and you quiet your technology and you quiet the pace of life and you quiet the need to conquer and to advance and to progress and when you quiet all the stimulants around us when you enter a place of peace and serenity and Tranquility Shabbos begins with sha Shah quiet just be just exist just Serene Shabbos he brings it's brought down to say foreign species of creation that doesn't have a voice fish okay someone's gonna send me an email I'm sure you could Google fish somehow send sonic waves under the water or something like that we don't hear fish speaking to one another fish are the epitome they represent now that doesn't mean in our shop is table or on Shabbos we take a vow of silence that we don't talk or sing or laugh or Daven we do that is Shabbos shabba's table is a platform to talk to sing to share to laugh we do but we do it from a place of Silence of quiet of Serenity of peace and that's the fish we eat fish we have a minute to eat fish because they are experiencing the fish are the ones who are the ones who give us Shah boss the Shah the quiet the quiet this is aravoda we silence we're not doing business deals we're not exchanging business it's not about business it's not about sports not about the stock market it's not about politics not about we're silencing all that like the fish we're quieting down what are the sounds we talk about in Shabbos has to be different categorically different than the way we speak during the week if someone were to record or eavesdrop or overhear what we're talking about in Shabbos they should say I don't recognize this person from what they talk about during the week we have entirely different vocabulary different manner of speech we have different topics of speech we speak differently Serene calm peaceful the rupture so that's one simple example here from the hiliga but it's an example learn about Shabbos the number two way to get ready for Shabbos the preparation we make four Shabbos no the Parsha experience shabbats through the prism and the lens of that Parsha but dive into and learn the premius the depth of what Shabbos is really all about connect to what Shabbos is really all about number three the order is kodesh sometimes we're frantically running we're catically preparing set the table clean the floor set the lights we have so much to do do we take it paused we breathe so we bring in the light and we breathe out the darkness we breathe out the toxicity do we breathe out the poison do we breathe out the failure do we breathe out the disappointment do we breathe out the Betrayal do we breathe out the disloyalty do we breathe out the darkness and breathe in Serene peace come and we put on our Shabbos in the Kabbalah so a person has to mentally get ready physically get ready intellectually get ready and then emotionally spiritually get ready these followers please help me get ready Hashem please help me prepare Hashem put me in a place of Mind Hashem create the atmosphere and environment so that our feelers should be about as we get ready for Shabbos so these were three suggestions there are more we'll pick up mirrors that next week with our new time hopefully everyone is ready early and on time turning our Friday into Arab Shabbos until next time if you're not yet signed up for our turn Friday into Arab Shabbos to know the sheer schedule to get bonus content about Shabbos and to inspire each other go to Rabbi Efron goldberg.org slash Rabbi Efron goldberg.org WhatsApp you can sign up for all our WhatsApp groups for every sheer for bonus information content share schedule Rabbi from goldberg.org WhatsApp sign up for all those until next time stay happy selfie stay holy have a fantastic plastic Shabbos come and Shop is [Music] a fantastic shower