Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #128 - No Holiness Without Preparation

it's not Friday and we're here to turn our Friday into an era of Shabbos big thank you to our generous sponsors Mendy and support of fisherman sacks uh the act of sweet Ben David Aria here comes the siren and here comes the holy the haliga Shabbos every Friday no matter what's going on in our lives sometimes it's easy and simple and sometimes it's complicated and difficult sometimes it's filled with pleasure and sometimes it's filled with pain but Shabbos comes as an interrupter disrupter it's a taste of Olam Haba no matter what's going on we try to tap into the strength and find the joy of Shabbos which gives us a little respite some peace some Tranquility no matter what is going on all around us before we dive back into raviche on Shabbos a comment from this week's Parsha six parasha is the source of Shabbos pasha's ISRO the aceres who tells us that one of the ten one of the decalog one of the aceres adibros is the observance of is so core so Central so fundamental is for us to be able to spend one day a week 25 hours a week disconnected from all around us and connected to ourselves to the people around us and to Hashem it is a recreation or re-experience a revisit of harsinai of that intimate Rendezvous of that high-speed connection of that intense inspiration and how did we achieve it at RC night so the Posse against Parsha says Vicky dashed them that before we came to arcina before we stood at the base of that mountain and received the sacred Torah first vikidashtam Torah tells us that we had to sanctify ourselves what is the word I mean go and sanctify go and become holy today tomorrow and on the third day you'll receive the Torah there is no Holiness without preparation and that's what turned fraud into our Shabbos is all about we don't stumble or trip or fall into Shabbos we have to prepare Shabbos will only be as good as what we put into how we prepare for it there is no Holiness there is no sanctity without effort without preparation without invitation without inspiration so did we prepare advarta everyone knows that you have to shop and cook and set the table everyone knows that you literally if you don't prepare before Shabbos you have nothing to eat on Shabbos but what's true physically is also true spiritually you will not be spiritually nourished by Shabbos if you don't prepare before Shabbos prepare by having a vartura for Shabbos prepare zimiros prepare a great story prepare something you're going to read prepare something you're going to learn prepare guests prepare conversation prepare thought-provoking questions Vicky dashtam harcina teaches us in perpetuity that Holiness is not something we stumble on Holiness is not something that happens by accident Holiness is not something which is random Vicky Dash them Holiness is when we prepare Holiness is when we turn Friday into Arab Shabbos Holiness is when we get ready Holiness is when we mold ourselves into a CLI into a vessel that we can receive that Holiness that is what we do each and every Friday that's what you and I are supposed to be doing right now in the last minutes of air of Shabba still between the music we're listening to in the time that we're spending and the clock that we're managing we are turning Friday into our Shabbos we are fulfilling vikidashtam we are getting ready we are preparing we are observing Shabbos the ramban and our Parsha tells us in fact that we don't use any other names of the days of the week there isn't a Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday all there is is a big discussion in why aren't we Bound by that limitation why don't we in fact only use those names but our whole orientation the orientation of the orientation of a Jew in the entire week is revolving around its surrounding Shabbos I can't wait one day since or one day two Shabbos two days since two days two Shabbos which brings us back to what we're learning not only are we counting days since we're counting down the countdown to when is Air of Shabbos begins when mozai that's when we are collecting and consolidating all of our experience from the past Shabbos and we are packaging it and getting ready and preparing already for the next Shabbos Vicky Dash them our preparation our Holiness our sanctity takes place already on Motors who we have in next Shabbos what are we serving next jobs what are we singing next job is what are we saying next Shabbos what is next Shabbos our whole week is oriented around the central theme of Shabbos and we've been learning the havdala where mavda bin code we can't carry that Revelation and that intense experience and that Rendezvous the entire week we go back to whole we go back to the Kishore we go conquer the world but we do so with an eye that the makor bracha that we're living all of it is for what it's all for Shabbos so mote Shabbos we have to comfort ourselves we're so sad we lost that and how do we Comfort ourselves from the sadness of having Allah through Abdullah begins on wine we spoke about and then we moved over to the basam and the Ariza the three hadasam which correspond with the three levels of the soul the nephesh the ruach and when we hold them as a bundle we feel United in the three levels of the Soul when we take in that Aroma that fragrance we are restoring our soul because Aroma is something which is purely spiritual and we are remembering that our nesham is something which is spiritual that we may have a goof we may have a physical being and all week long our physical being we work and all week long we take initiative and all week long we indulge in all week long we pamper but it's just the body what we live for that nesham is say the basam the spirit of the of the aroma of the fragrance reminds us what really matters the moment a person imbibes the Besame a person has to turn their heart to realize that with everything I feel like ashmi come up so if you look at the basam the beautiful container the beautiful summon box the beautiful spices of cinnamon inside it if you look at its physical it's material you can measure it you could hold hold it there's volume to it it's a material but what is the value of it is not the material the measure what is valuable about it is that what you can't see but that which you only smell so when you take that moment you make that bracha bore meaning and then you take in that smell what you're saying is I'm holding something physical in my hand but that's not what matters about it what matters about it is what you can't see but with deeper meaning what's hidden inside it and that is a reminder that all of us as I'm about to embark on my week and I have to eat and I have to sleep and I have to drink and I have to work and I have to earn there's a physical world that we navigate it's a material world that we operate in but this summon reminds me and strengthens me and inspires me that there's something deeper hidden within the Goof that's called the nashama the nephe the vacation is and we ask Hashem to leave those three layers of the Soul inside us so we can live off of them and on them and we think the same way that there's something physical here but there's a smell which is invisible which is hidden which is deep inside it but so even though you can't see it it still is found and it is the Corey I take upon myself that there is a hidden light in everything that my job when I engage food my job when I engage money my job when I Engage The material physical world is not to be satisfied with the surface The Superficial but to dig deep to find the light that is inside it that light of God that sustains and that lifts everything to know that it is the most important that message we're already running out we already have our mozai's plans we already are done with Shabbos we fly through Abdullah but think about it and meditate on the busam remember what what we mean to be doing the mindfulness and the intent and the summon because it can Inspire and carry an entire week that idea and the thoughtfulness that the Summit is not just what you see on the surface the Besame is what's hidden inside I am not what you see on the surface and the physical world is not what we see on the surface it's what we see inside until next time stay happy stay healthy stay holy no matter what's going on in life no matter how difficult no matter how painful dig into Shabbos as a source of strength have a beautiful and holy Shabbos