Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #124 - Transitions and Distinctions

foreign [Music] there's no such thing as a Friday only air of Shabbos here comes that siren it is almost time to accept and to receive the Shabbos I want to thank our turn Friday into Eric Chavez General response to my dear friends men the NC part of fisherman is so thankful to our friends the stras family who made this amazing safer possible and great to see the Strauss is today we've been speaking about mozai Shabbos it's kind of peculiar Bazaar why speak about mozai Shabbos on Arab shop it's not only turning Friday into air of Shabbos we're not turning Saturday night into mote Shabbos that would be its own avoda that's a new podcast we're not ready for we're working on Friday into Arab Shabba so the truth is they're going into Shabbos we have to have a mindset we have to experience a Shabbos that we can continue to draw from on a mozai Shabbos we have to go in with a Shabbos in which we've created a clean break a division from the week all week long we are working to-do list emails tasks all week long technology all week long we are immersed in contact with this world the Shabbos comes to taste when we when we wash we went through and learned when a person does rohitsa for Shabbos they're also cleansing their soul when a person gets changed but the fact that we have different shabba's clothing than weekday clothing is transforming not only our appearance and our lavush our external surface but we are Transforming Our Essence our identity who we are there's the vakadika Jew there's the weekday version of who we are and there's the shabba's version of who we are and we have to go from that we diversion into the shabba's version and that's the kavana the mindfulness that is the presence the intention that we have to have and carry as we get ready for Shabbos you can't just stumble or trip into Shabbos you have to have intention intentionality when one is preparing and cooking and shopping and setting a table when one is showering and grooming when one is getting dressed when one is going to shoot when it's preparing to light candles each of these moments each of these steps are rich with opportunity and possibility for for transforming ourselves from the weekday version of ourselves to the point of penne Shabbos and the kablo I want to put on my Shabbos PanAm so we transform ourselves going into Shabbos and then there's a transition and a transformation and coming out of Shabbos and we mentioned we're in The Long Winter weeks right now where we have a long mote Shabbos Shabbos is relatively short and then mote Shabbos is long so what is the mentality do we get depressed and despondent do we fall down and downtrodden because we're no longer on that high we're no longer tapped into our nishama which is a little bit expansive which is a little bit more or are we able to maintain that high can we continue that light so it begins with Meyer Kevin Smith Begins the work of the weekday we are already greeting the new week we're starting the new week so Moze Shabbos is air of Shabbos over the next week and it's mozai Shabbos of this week Moze the Shabbos represents a sort of bridge I'm still extracting I'm still drawing from the light of the previous wheat and I am preparing I've begun coming off a vacation or a simcha planning the next one what did I learn how can I improve what do I want to carry with me as I talked to kill Allah says so in order to get the new week started on the right foot in order to be able to make the next Shabbos all special person has to do the right things the first thing that we do is but we'll skip that and fast forward to have dallah Abdullah is as its name suggests creates the distinction the division the transition from one to the other you know without Transitions and distinctions it all blurs and all Blends together there's no meaning to anything what meaning is there to time if all the different units of time just blend and bleed into one another what's meaningful is the contrast between them that contrast is called havdala that havdala creates the beauty the opportunity the meaning the purpose it's the Abdullah it's the native writes that when a Kurdish created light but yeah there was night there was morning created the light ye or or he created Darkness just the absence of light or is it an entity a creation in its own right so the simple understanding is that darkness is just the absence of light there's light and when you shut off the light or eliminate or remove the light when you blow out the candle what's left is dark then it sit right so beautifully at the beginning of braces that our understanding of darkness is that darkness is a creation he wasn't on the yotze or he didn't just fashion and create light he also created Darkness you can only appreciate light when you contrast it with dark the light the clarity the brightness the freshness that is only meaningful when you've experienced the darkness so the darkness we don't welcome it or wanted but the periods of Darkness that are followed by a light they enable they launch the light the light is Meaningful in contrast to that dark it's the Abdullah it's the contrast between experiences and conversations and units and periods of time and places those contrasts are what create meaning so the first thing we do is havedala we recognize the contrast Shabbos is only meaningful if I go back into a weekday if all the Shabbos Yom shakulo Shabbos the world to come so it's no free will there's no free choice in the world to come we're in a permanent static State it's in this world where we live within contrast there's the difference between the weekday and Shabbos Chavez back into the weekday that have done with that distinction and that contrast it's what gives meaning and purpose we acknowledge we lift that cup and we say God you distinguish between holy and mundane what is the kavana what is the intent what is the mindfulness what is we have to place everything in its right category we have to put everything in its right column we have to understand where we are on the calendar we live with a Time awareness we live with a self-reflection we live with the mindfulness Shabbos is over back to work it's time to work we were born to toil we were born to work we're born to do we were born to conquer we were born to give we were born to roar like a lion Shabbos we rest Shabbos we lie down Shabbos we're at peace with nature Shabbos we stop finally trying to conquer and manipulate and control the world and our world around us is we rest but the distinction what makes Shabbos Shabbos and what makes Shabbos over is now we're ready to get to work um demonstrated and Shabbos we practice the reality that there is no one there is nothing but him we are nullified we are absolutely nothing we submit and we surrender all there is anode the whole world is filled with you Hashem the whole world is you are the entire world we are nothing we take up no space and we don't control we are nothing this is your world we're just guests and even with all the initiative we take in another regard we are to a certain extent Spectators to it however on the other hand you cannot deny the reality that we were created be stationary be still that you're not in charge of anything wants us to work and to toil and to do good things he wants us to mold and fashion his world he wants us to repair it and improve it and to be that light he wants us to make it a better place he wants us to bring it closer to a state of redemption to reveal the light of Hashem and everything via Clash so on the one hand there is a piece of us and a part of us that's meant to be submissive and passive and Spectators to Hashem into his world to practice Bittle to nullify our sense of selves and to submit and surrender all there is is you but on the other hand there's a never as a creation simultaneously we're meant to feel that where agents were schleif and we're Messengers we were sent here on a mission we have a purpose and a mandate we have to work and improve and bring this world to a state in a place of Redemption how do we fulfill both parts of all reality and identity the shabba's version of who we are and the weekday version of who we are so yet still on Friday we're running we're going we're doing and then we'll transition penne Shabbos nakabla we're going to put on our Shabbos pun and we're going to sing and we're going to dance and we're going to let go and let God we're going to stop trying to turn lights on and off stop checking our technology stop doing our to-do list and tasks stop trying to control that world realizing Bittle I nullify I submit I surrender to you Hashem you are all there is but then that was our that was our Shabbos pandem we're making havdala we're making a distinction in a contrast and we go back into the weekday and with that weekday we bring all the energy and the philosophy and the ideology and the passion and the enthusiasm and the rest physically and spiritually of Shabbos and we run let's get back to work there's so much to do let's roar like lions to change and to improve hashem's world so rest rest dear friends as we head into Shabbos and we turn Friday into Arab Shabbos get ready to rest get ready to relax get ready to renew and get ready to restore not because it's an enzyme to itself it is it's the Ultimate Reality it's the but it will prepare us to be able to get back to work until next time stay happy stay healthy stay holy eyes cover chop is Kurdish everybody have a fantastic Saturday