Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #13 - Hashem is Visiting Us

all right good heir of shabbos to everyone great to be back together holy arab shabbos jews let me move this camera to look at the youtube and the facebook and everything separately today our technology is not cooperating we're all over the place but that's what makes shadows so beautiful is that we don't rely on technology and we don't need it and we don't long for it we don't look for it and we're grateful to be able to survive without it particularly when it doesn't cooperate with us i want to share with you a thought that comes from the show on the great salon as it is friday afternoon and we are getting ready to transition to the hey look at the beautiful shabbos so desperate for the quiet the serenity the peace that shabbos and only shabbos can provide so you sanctified the seventh day in your name it is the topless it is the essence of the creation of heaven and earth the notion that shabbos is tactless the essence the purpose it's the goal of the entire creation it's why we're here it's what it's all about you think it's to work hard all week long do you think it's to accumulate and amass more things you think it's to tap into and experience more pleasure it's all about the shabbos and the midfish elaborates the measure says though that god in the seventh day finished his work the major says the following he designed a magnificent a beautiful wedding canopy [Music] and what was missing a magnificent wedding canopy and four poles and a groom and in those days you could have a schmorg and an orchestra and a backup choir and a seven course meal my sakacero what was missing everything was there all the elements of a beautiful wedding of a magnificent simcha what was missing there's no pride there's no pride photography orchestra floral arrangements magnificent caterer location venue everybody health and safe safe and but if there's no caliph there's no bride then you're missing the whole point and like concludes that's what the world was like god created a world and it was a magnificent backdrop and magnificent climate atmosphere culture and magnificent food but a world without shabbos is like a wedding that the khala stands up that the bride doesn't arrive says what does the the parable and the reality don't match the example of the wedding if there's no bride there's no one to get married you're missing one of the essential figures so when it comes to the creation of the world everything existed after the six days everything destined to exist the plant life the animal kingdom humanity the world the universe the cosmos it was all there what was missing you hadn't arrived yet at the seventh day but that was going to come on the calendar how is that parable how is that similar to the parable how is the ninja like the muscle of a case of a wedding and all the arrangements of the chuppah that's missing the bride says if you have if you have a florist and an orchestra and a photographer and you have a venue and a caterer but you have no color you have no bride the bride is the purpose is the point the whole reason everyone is convened and come together the reason that you've put it all there is to celebrate the union of the bride and groom if there's no groom no bride no union then you're missing the tacos the gold the essence the purpose of it all and that's what the medrash means yes at the end of six days of creation there was a universe and a cosmos there was an animal life and a plant life and a human life yes there were all the essential ingredients of the world as we know it but what are they all there for what is the tactless what's the goal was the mission what's the reason yes it was all created yes it was all there just like the ingredients of a wedding but if you're missing the bride if you're missing the groom if you're missing the rabbi you're not missing anything but if you're missing the bride and you're missing the groom then you're missing everything is making an incredibly important point my dearest friends as we are preparing to transition and get ready and welcome yet another shabbos a place of serenity peace and refuge that we have to realize as we've said so many times until now and said it in different words that's not that i rest on shabbos so i can get back to the week it's that i work all week so that i can get to shabbos so many other backwards and upside down and they think shabbos is when i catch up on my sleep but my reading and my fun shabbos i rejuvenate re-energize why because what's my real life what's the real world the real world in my real life is when i get back to the weekday and shabbos just gives me the tools the energy to get back to the weekday but that's backwards and it's wrong we say it in our davening the rabbit captured it so poignantly in his explanation of this madrish it's not that i rest on shabbos to get back to the week it's that i work all week so i can get to shops i told her to pay for shout outs in order to prepare for shabbos in order to have pleasure in chavez they be or bizet i'm going to show you share with you now one of the secrets of the whole universe listen carefully and listen closely because in my jewish educational system we didn't cover this and we didn't talk about this and yet it's so essential it's so axiomatic it's so core to what jewish life is really all about never stop and wonder why did god create the world and in the three four minutes we have left we cannot comprehensively cover that topic but why did god create a world put it differently god is infinite omnipotent all-knowing all capable we are the opposite if god hadn't created a world there would be no one around to miss it not being created no one would have known better so why did god create a world and any answer you're going to give that says it filled a need of god god needed this god needed that god needed the other is by definition because the god is the source and the essence of all things good um and someone who has good and is good wants to be good and give good son so why did god create a world because he wanted us all of creation to experience the joy the benefit the happiness the pleasure of the world what's the greatest pleasure there is so whatever you're gonna name and thank god you're all muted so you can't name any but whatever you think is the greatest pleasure is it neiman marcus is it a delicious barbecue single moat scotch fine cuban cigar time with your family a vacation on the beach a great safer a cma an incredible darwining a beautiful composites a wonderful song whatever you find to be the greatest pleasure that exists who is the source of that pleasure who is the creator of that pleasure who holds the strings to that pleasure it's none other than the republish on the image of the almighty so god is the source of every pleasure that exists which means he is the center of pleasure the capital of pleasure he is the definition of pleasure and the more we attach to god the more pleasure that we have i don't know who wrote it was made famous i think by the boys at drs i don't know if they wrote it themselves it's a beautiful demo we sing it every shabbos in my house some of my children scream it louder than others what do those words mean and that's the message i want to leave you with this arab shabbos i want to go into shambles with mentality and attitude i want all of us to experience that pleasure and that high as said that shalom said so many years ago lord get me high get me high and despite what people thought he was talking about the lord he was talking about hashem let me be high let me get pleasure simply by connecting and attaching myself to you come on the great house your titles this week writes shazam whatever you define as pleasurable whatever you define as a source of joy whatever you define as filling a need there's nothing like hashem attaching yourself to hashem experiencing hashem being in the presence and having an audience with hashem connecting with the hashem in us is the source of all pleasure so if a kid asks you what judaism all about an adult asks you for that matter what's it all here for it limits us and it restricts us and it constricts us and it it guides us away from all the things i want i want to be able to eat anything i want do whatever i want go wherever i want to go and judaism has such minutiae and details and rules and regulations and asks me to compromise and sacrifice and give up so much so what's judaism about and for too many years and too many people they said you know judaism is about sacrifice be of sacrifice judaism is about service be of service and he quotes from apostle can tell him from david from king david he says you know what the purpose of life is next time anyone asks you child or adult what is it all about why did god create the world and why are we here and why did he give us his torah we're going to celebrate this coming week i guess we're not going to have next friday it'll be yanta we're not gonna have our turn friday into arab shamans so why did he give us that torah it wasn't to take away pleasure to limit it he gave us the torah because he wants us to have the ultimate pleasure if anyone ever asks you in judaism what is life all about why are we here we are here to get the greatest pleasure in the world god wants us to be happy he wants us to have pleasure and there is no pleasure greater than him and there's no pleasure greater than shabbos and he continues we're out of time and he says you know where the world is of the greatest pleasure the sweetness and the pleasure it's the world to come where we don't have the barriers of the body we don't struggle in the conflict and the tension the battle between the soul the shama and the goof we're not going to struggle to understand why bad things happen to good people in the world of of perfection in the world of truth in a world of kulatov in the world to come where we see hashem with no barriers no boundaries where kashmir was entirely accessible to us that is the world of the ultimate pleasure the greatest pleasure there is so how do we tap into that during this lifetime how can we experience a taste of what that will be shabbos shabbos is me and i have to tell you it is the greatest pleasure why did i start this class because i've spent the last couple years working on shabbos i'm trying to in my lifetime become a shamrock shabbos show merchable is to avoid violating the melaka shabbos i've been working on for a long time you learn how for shabbas you teach your shabbos you can learn the details we just finished prayer practiciome 39 categories of creative labor what to avoid that's that's one aspect of shabbos but to be a shomersham is to long for shabbos and to look forward to shadows to count down to shabbos to anticipate shadows to every shabbos say hashem i got high not just because i drank a bottle of great wine not because i make a wonderful not just because i had incredible pastrami meat pizza not just because now i could say my future son-in-law makes an incredible meat pizza that gets you high without any alcohol without any uh without any other um without any other substance you don't need to tap into it you know how you get high when you sing sings mirrors gets you high go for a walk disconnect from technology and news disconnect from to-do list and pressure and worry disconnect from anger and arrogance tap into the real you taste the world to come and there's no pleasure that's greater than that a schluff to read that book that you say you have no time to read really of all the time to read you just spend your night falling asleep watching nourish kite and surfing waste of time and then shabbos you read shabbas you learn shabbas you sing shabbas you walk shabbas your rest there's no greater pleasure it's a taste of the world to come it is it's why we're here so my holy friends i wish you a helichabas should go into shabbos knowing that we have access to tap into the greatest pleasure that's available to us and that we can get high there's nothing wrong with a nice lachaim in moderation responsibly but we don't need it to get high to get high on hashem lord get me high get me i get me high on hashem that's all i need get me high on hashem get me high if we're blessed to be with family please god soon we'll be able to responsibly be with friends we'll be able to get high on the most natural natural things there are an experience of a taste of the world to come i want to wish everyone a happy a healthy and a holy shabbos not only for this week but for next we'll see if we'll meet on arab shibuya next week turn around into lewis i'm not that sounds as good but uh please god we'll pick up from here stay safe everyone be well