Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #125 - Liberate Yourself

so we can't wait to turn Friday into Arab Shabbos generously sponsored by many support officials and sacks of Jacob and David Arya thank you so much for your generosity it may say Friday on your calendar but it is not Friday in your heart and on your nishama here comes that siren it's time to get ready because today is Shabbos before we dive back into it I want to share with you as we're beginning the book of shmost the second book of the Torah and it doesn't matter when you're listening to this if that's the partial we're up to or not the theme and the essence the idea remains equally true the majority our great rabbis tell us that the Jewish people are only redeemed in the Merit of Shabbos what does that mean if we observe Shabbos we keep Shabbos more than if we keep castras more than if we keep sharpness more than if we keep losing harder or learning Torah what does it means explains to us the measures tells us that moja abena went to confront Paro and he said to Paro look you're going to get diminishing returns you're overworking the people you think that they're going to be more productive they'll be less productive you're killing them and therefore you're having diminishing returns give them one day awful weekend through giving one day off a week you'll get more out of them the other days and power was convinced his bottom line will improve they'll be more efficient more productive he is convinced but why do did Moshe do that and that what that motion introduces the concept of Shabbos and khazala rabbis that sadikam right that the Israel the beginning of the Redemption the beginning of the Liberation the beginning of freedom and emancipation in Egypt came because of Shabbos because they tasted they experienced sharpness what did that mean six days a week they were slaves one day a week they tasted Freedom what it means is we are enslaved by the busyness by The Noise by the constant motion when Shabbos comes and we stop when Shabbos comes and we slow down when Shabbos comes and we're quiet all that noise around us and in our head when Shabbos comes and we're no longer defined by our busyness how busy we are are we crazy busy and psychobusy and so busy and so busy are we able to disconnect to connect to what matters do we shut off and shut down from technology and to-do lists and task lists and we instead connect with ourselves Hashem the people around us and what matters he says that's what it means Moshe saw they were overwhelmed power was giving them busy work keeping them busy the more that we have noise the less margin that we have the more the less that we have the capacity to simply be to sit to think the more enslaved we will be and boy Our Generation needs this as much maybe more than any other we live lives that are defined we can't drive in a car without something being on radio or podcast or being on the phone we can't be walking without listening to something we can't lie in bed without reading or watching or listening can't we just be are we capable of experiencing a yes can we expand our mind to Serenity a Tranquility a peacefulness can we tap into the capacity to just be that is Shabbos that is we say this in our dominant yes gave us this this gave us a gift a legacy that has no boundaries and no borders the capacity no matter what's going on around us all that noise that sense of being overwhelmed do you ever had for ventilating you just feel like oh so much to do how can I possibly get it all done personal professional communal individual my family I feel overwhelmed my phone is buzzing beeping by off the hook what am I going to do how can I answer and respond to everything come Shabbos [Music] what was in God's what was in Exile in Egypt and even in our lives is daas is our knowledge is our Serenity is our peace of mind is our capacity for thoughtfulness is our ability to be present and conscious and conscientious what we are restoring with the Redemption the beginning of the Redemption aim is surrounded so part of turning Friday into air of Shabbos is to actually go through that exercise to liberate ourselves to say I'm going to leave that weekday and all that it entails behind me I won't be defined I won't be clouded I won't be limited I won't be distracted by it I won't be scattered I won't be bifurcated I won't be divided I won't be overwhelmed to have a mental image and picture to set that ambition and goal of yeshiv Hadas I want Serenity I want peace of mind I want peacefulness I want to sing and I want to laugh and I want to tell stories and I want to listen I want to connect and I want to nap and I want to read and I want to just be nowhere to go and nothing to do no technology to scroll or to watch or to respond to I want to just be the beginning of the Redemption comes with our Parsha so as we begin the second book of the Torah shmos as we begin the book of Exile let's realize that the self-imposed servitude in slavery the bondage and the tyranny of busyness the tyranny of noise let's learn that capacity the hiroshimi says the whole week long to truly be righteous you have the ability to not wait or need to come to Shabbos in order to disconnect and connect even during the week to go on airplane mode even during the week to sit to just think and just take deep breaths and just be e to clear our minds and our heads to go for that walk without listening or doing to just be the capacity to just be any certainly goal and that's how we will experience and that's part of Friday turning Friday into air of Shabbos is not to add to the busyness Friday arguably for many is the busiest day of the week shopping I'm running I'm cooking I'm cleaning I'm setting I'm preparing there's so much to get done and there's so little time on these short Fridays so Friday for some is the busiest day of the week but it should be the opposite we should be so well planned and so well scheduled so well timed that we front-ended in our weekend and Friday morning that as Friday progresses we're less and less busy so that when we light those candles when we leave to shul and turn off our phone we are the least busy we are able to walk over that threshold from a place of busyness and a place of noise to a place of Serenity of yeh shavat Das and a place of calm how can create that atmosphere through the schedule and the timing of what needs to get done how do we create that atmosphere through them music that we play in our home and through the attitude we bring and through the timetable we keep Shabba starts at a certain time in our own mind pretends it starts an hour earlier beyond ready and be on a timetable that we're fully ready so that we can come into Shabbos by just sitting and laughing and talking and reading and being come a few minutes early to shul and open to say for a finisher schneid mikra open the Hamish think about it prepared if I told her for that night come to those Shabbos candles not in a rush and not racing against the 18 minutes come to them some deep breaths and some calm and some peace and some Serenity turn Friday into Arab Shabbos and experience a weekly gaula a weekly Redemption that all week long as the temperature goes up on the busyness and the noise and the amount we're doing the amount we're running in the amount we're chasing Friday comes and that's when I take down the temperature Friday comes as my heart rate and my lifestyle has sped up all week long Friday comes and I slow it down until Shabbos comes it's a screeching halt yes that we can truly tap into and immerse ourselves and experience a Shabbos that's what save the Jewish people in Egypt and it's what saves us now in our life and in our world of noise of busyness the tyranny of technology to liberate ourselves to slow down slow down to be able to experience that gift that is Yeshiva Das that is what it's all that's what it's all about we should take joy in this gift of Torah the capacity for Shabbos the capacity to liberate and to free ourselves wishing you a happy a healthy a holy a freeing amazing Shabbos [Music] the coverage