Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #117 - Bask in the Light

[Music] or getting narrow Shabbos oh it is time to turn Friday into Arab Shabbos big thank you to our series sponsors dear friends in memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Saxon of yakuben David Arya these short Fridays here comes that siren it is time to get ready for Shabbos and to turn today from Friday into Arab Shabbos we have this close to continue the wonderful safer Adventure Morgenstern the news safer on shabba's so grateful to the Strauss family and others for sponsoring it and we are learning we know that there is no Holiness without preparation and a person who wants to eat on Shabbos you have to be torreach you have to make the effort you have to plan you have to execute can't simply wake up on Shabbos and find all of the uh all of the food and all the table set and everything clean and everything ready to go so what kind of what kind of preparation goes in what is the preparation that we do so division talked to us about so far three we're going to see a fourth the first one was you get a shop you gotta clean you got to set a table you got to get ready number two was to immerse ourselves in studying the topic of Shabbos learn countless and endless Forum on Shabbos listen into a podcast called Turn Friday into air of Shabbos person has to prepare by getting in the right mindset prepared by study by learning by penetrating deep into our heart deep into our soul deep into our intellect expand our Horizon and understanding what are the Halal what are the Shabbos what are some of the mahogany customs of Shabbos and number three was to wake ourselves up so your order is asthma wake ourselves up often too often when Friday comes the difference between Friday night of Shabbos if you're living at today's Friday Friday is uh thank God it's Friday TGIF Thank God It's Friday collapse exhaustion sleep party Freedom Liberation to be off but a year to Jew doesn't say Thank God It's Friday they say thank God it's Shabbos and they turn Friday into Arab Shabbos it's not a day that we let down or we pass out today we build up we can serve our energy in order to express it to exert it in order to experience what is the the source of all blessing in order to get to tackles myself Mauritius the tackles the essence the goal what we've been building towards and what we want is Shabbos number four the final the fourth suggests to not only get ready for Shabbos on Friday the key to having a meaningful and uplifting and enriching and empowering Shabbos is not only to think about Shabbos on Shabbos it's not only not only to think about Shabbos on era of Shabbos but it is to benefit The Basque in the light of Shabbos all week long even during the weekday to enter into the light of Shabbos if Shabbos we disconnect to connect if Shabbos we are more aware of invested in nourishing arnessama that doesn't only have to be on Friday or on Shabbos transforms Shabbos has the ability to uplift Shabbos we do sleep and we rest Shabbos we learn and we read Shabbos we sing and we laugh shamas we hear ideas and engage in dialogue and conversation and when we come out we say how am I different because of this Shabbos what changed me what made me different how much we dream every week in our incredible incredible beautiful if you live in Boca you must come to ours our singing sometimes lights out our Torah or hasidus that we share and we always challenge in the period of private arriving the period of which corresponds right before Hashem was determined to create the world a time of the week in which he is more open in which he is more sympathetic to receive our request and which is ratsunship britsonus driver deriven in that moment in that time we not only take stock of the week that was but we dream and we picture and we anticipate the week that we'll be who are we what do we want to accomplish we don't hold on to Shabbos forever we know that Shabbos needs to come to an end whether you end it in a regular time however long you hold on to Shabbos but Shabbos was not meant to take up the entire week Shabbos is Meaningful because there's a hole you need the contrast in the distinction and we know we need to go re-enter into whole in order to enjoy and to anticipate and to long for Shabbos so Shabbos is a time to dream and to anticipate to look forward to to prepare for to have ambition about the week that will be Sonos where's my razon what's my will the root of the word Rats on his rats where will I run what is my drive what is my will what is my ambition what do I want to accomplish this coming week with myself with others with Hashem in my religious Pursuits and my learning in my darling with my family and equality time with my health and my Wellness with my care and concern for others professionally in my career in the time of arrivals is beginning to Wing away I say to myself what are my dreams and my hopes and my ambitions who do I want to be what do I want to become how will I take the light of Shabbos and allow it to illuminate and light up my whole week how will this past Shabbos the conversations the thoughts the dreams the rest the laughter what I read how will it take come with me into Shabbos we can't just after Shabbos go back to the week that was and let our weeks blend together personality we should attempt to live that way practically lyros has yet to see the hand of Hashem in every issue and to cling them with all of our heart commotion just like on Shabbos by disconnecting I connect I can take that with me we can create pockets of Shabbos even during the week when we put on our phone on airplane mode or when we just think and exist and be we disconnect or shut down in order to reconnect to what matters the most we can experience a little piece of a little part of a window a shabba's experience even during the week we don't have to wait the or hashabas you know the light light is something spiritual not physical it has no limitations and therefore the light of Shabbos is not limited to the time period or the unit of Shabbos once we spark the light of Shabbos that light can come with us that light can be carried Beyond just on Shabbos and that light can be carried into into the weakness is a time of Illumination Shabbos is a time of clarity is we can acquire our dreams we can acquire a relationship we can acquire Clarity and then we have the ability to take it with us it's not limited it's not bound by time space I've foreign momentum some traction and to build up to the next Shabbos we have to dream we have to dream big we have to make it a reality of what it's like to live with Hashem to feel his presence not only on Shabbos but all throughout the week and now we'll move over you have to want it has to be a drive it has to be a longing you have to want to connect to Shabbos but it's not enough to want you need the mechanics how preparing how do you prepare in four ways and now we move over to the third area the ruts on the want the four ways in which we prepare and you so gimmel the third is Kadesh how can we make ourselves holy you have to be a vessel to receive the light Shabbos is light and when it's so light it's so bright it's so penetrating it's a light that can carry a soul of Shabbos but you have to be a vessel you have to be a vessel to receive that light you sowed his Kadesh the third year sword is to to make ourselves holy so how do you do that how do you do that that's what we'll pick up with next time to make ourselves holy and until that time be happy be healthy and be holy have a wonderful and a beautiful Shabbos Shabbos of blessing Hashem is a renewal it's a Shabbos of of bringing in that new month should be against schmeck and it good and Shabbos to all foreign