Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #130 - Knowing Havdallah

a good day of Shabbos everybody it is not Friday it is there are Shabbos and we are going to turn Friday into Arab Shabbos generously sponsored by mending to support a fisherman and the memory Jonathan Jackson very special thank you to our sponsor says come that siren Shabbos is coming you're running out of time to turn on Friday into Arab Shabbos and continue with Morgenstern by he says the following we've been going through mote Shabbos air of Shabbos preparation really begins not on Friday or Thursday begins on mozai shops Our Lives revolve around Shabbos Shabbos is the makora as the source of all blessing in our life and therefore not that we rest on Shabbos to get back to work during the week we work all week so that we can arrive at the destination called Shabba Shabbos is the destination is the goal to immerse ourselves in that world that is a portion a glimpse a window into the world to come already pivot to begin preparing for the next Shabbos to Extra directing to take out of our shop is to get ready for the next Shabbos and the way we do that is through have dollar we spoke about the summon the summon externally look like they're just myrtles or they're simply um spices but internal there's a fragrance there's a panemius and it's a reminder to us we operate in this external physical material world but there's a panemius there's a depth there's an internal to all that we are doing we spoke about the significance of the wine we spoke about the light of the candle we have to be on fire we come out of Shabbos and after we've slept and we've read and we've learned and we've sung and we played and we schmoozed and we davened now we're on fire and that fire the havdala candle the fire of Hashem we draw it down and we are on fire the entire week moza Shabbos don't let go don't let down don't watch stuff or go places or do things it's not a time to spiritually let ourselves down to Spirit of time to spiritually continue to elevate malava malcol we want to escort the queen we're not done with her we can't get enough of her we don't want apart from her we're malava the Maka so he writes the following is now that we imbibe now that we took in the fragrance of the salmon and we understand that we acknowledge that in addition to the external there's is an internal epidemias to us to our relationships into the physical world into all that we Engage The gamca of nurse and we turned our fingers in over our thumb we looked at our fingernails but towards us we were cuff of we submitted and we surrendered our existence to the candle to the fire of Hashem now we're ready we said the one we said the summit we said the candle and now we're ready to make the bracha of the Abdullah is all about the light of Hashem and even though there's a dark world that we're reimbursing and re-entering ourselves into nevertheless the light of Hashem that light of the candle the light of Shabbos continues to illuminate the path is we have this goal this Mission we are agents and we do so with a brand with a fire we do so with that light of the candle we're going to re-emerge and re-enter and go back to work and back to life and back to the supermarket back to the gym and back to the street but we're going to do so being changed and transformed by each Shabbos that we engaged we go into Shabbos knowing I have to extract from this Shabbos what is unique and special and distinct about the shamas that we capture it and we battle it and inspires and it drives us for the entire week that is ahead even though there's a light of God there's a spirituality there's a depth to all that we do both in his galasa or but there are different levels when it comes to Revealing hashem's Light is there are things that are mundane that there are things that are elective there are things that are intrinsically and inherently holy vegetables and then there are things that God's light is so hidden from them almost entirely then this world has such there's such impurity and contamination there are such beliefs ideologies philosophies there are people and behaviors and dress that just push Hashem out of the picture and we have to try to distance ourselves and protect ourselves and insulate ourselves from them we can't lose who we are we can't assimilate our values are our lifestyle but if you want to live this life with this Vision that all is good everything's amazing Hashem is everywhere everything's Holyoke you want to arrive at the right destination so we have to look and search for that which is redeemable in everything but there are ideas and philosophies and choices that are beyond the paleol and a person has to make sure not to fall there are the Clippers there are the shell there are these barriers there are these interfering factors that are trying to get us to fall off of our high to not live the life we're meant to or capable of living and that's the broker that we make Hashem is mavdil he distinguishes between holy and mundane though so what is it we now we've engaged the panemius of the samim we've engaged the light and being on fire of the menorah and the concluding bracha is Holy Jew you're going back into the weak you're leaving Shabbos to go back into the mundane here's the most important thing you need to know as you reimburse and re-engage and re-enter that world don't blindly think that everything is equally holy distinguish do Bow rare have the capacity to identify what is coedition what is whole what is what is light and what is revealed in some things but it's hidden and blocked in others there is because without Abdullah there's no Das we're not thinking people we're not intelligent people we're not Discerning people if we cannot create distinctions everything can't blur together we have to have boundaries and we have to have distinctions and that's what havdala reminds us as we leave that Shabbos the Cocoon the protective cocoon the place of Refuge of Shabbos so we re-emerge into the world we have to know how to make Abdullah and then we'll go back into Shabbos we'll re-enter and we'll find Refuge we'll find peace we're beginning to read the parishes of the nishkan but the mishkan is in space Shabbos is in time Shabbos is a tabernacle of time the same way that one enters the Michigan physically in space one enters Shabbos for 25 hours feels the presence of Hashem in time that's how we can draw the light the Holiness of Shabbos into the week don't make the mistake of thinking everything's just good just like Shabbos there are clippos Allah are during the week we have to be vigilant and scrupulous and careful and cautious don't fall into the influence of the Clipper of the yet Sahara you have to make Abdallah we have to see the True Light the real light the light that truly shines the light that illuminates the fire that fuels us and we can't give them to a counterfeit or a fraudulent version he said be satisfied only with that with the authentic kind so that is the message of Abdullah Abdullah is the way that we capture that we take that we bottle that we're able to bring what we got out of out of Shabbos and bring it with us into the weak and we desperately need it we need it more than ever so I want to wish everyone a happy and the holy and a healthy Shabbos take and extract and capture all of the kadusha of Shabbos in every which way with your family with Hashem and with yourself and bring that into to a beautiful week ahead to make a Holy Week a happy week and a healthy week [Music] [Applause] as soon as Friday into air Shabbos go live