Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #138: Productivity and Productivity Capacity

I want to thank our generous series sponsor many people officers thank you for your generosity and support here comes that siren and here comes that Shabbos how great to have music back or after lagba Omer we're counting not down but counting up to stand up that mountain together and to be able to receive the Torah Anew and until then each Shabbos is critically important each Shabbos is transformational to help us get ready and where we need to be this I was reading parashus Bahar although this thought is not only relevant if you're listening any week it is important and many people assume the reason we let the land grow lay fallow is because we want the land to rejuvenate we want the land to rest in fact in this context our Parsha uses the language of Shabbos over and over again when you enter the land that I'm giving you let the land rest a Shabbos for Hashem six years you plan six years years you prune and the seventh year Shabbos Shabba song over and over and over again shemitah is given to us in the context using the word Shabbos what is the connection on the one hand Shabbos is the seventh day after six days of work shmita is the seventh year after six years of work clearly there's a cycle of seven going on and yet there's something more the says so it should say six years plant your field and then why is Hashem even before this sixth even before the six years what's going on here about Shabbos so the Assumption one would make is that what is shmita really all about what shabba's really all about so The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen Covey fantastic book if you haven't read it it's a must read really a mustard safer The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Covey develops the idea of what he calls p and PC not political correctness he was before that P stands for productivity and PC stands for productivity capability productivity capacity not what we produce but how we maintain and improve our ability to produce so for example the P of a chorus how fast you could go the productivity of it is how much can you push the car how fast can you go the PC is that you change the oil do you balance the tires do you change their air filter do you take care of the car PC if you don't do the PC the productivity capability the car is going to burn out car is going to be no good car is going to get you nowhere so the P how fast can I drive it how hard can I push it P is great and people focus on the how fast can I go what about the PC what he calls the productivity capability and Kobe writes the same is true for the human being we have a p we have our productivity how much can I do what can my output be how much can I accomplish but we also have a PC the productivity capability which is are you going to burn out are you going to fry out do we rejuvenate we re-energize we take care of our physical emotional spiritual well-being do we have a continued education do we develop as people do we grow not only do we have the drive the Relentless push for P for productivity but what about our PC what about our productivity capability what about maintaining and preserving and securing our capacity and our capability to produce so the simple understanding of both Shabbos and shmita the yearly Shabbos is that it's all about PC take off have a sabbatical so that you can grow again and in some ways that's true if we push if we work too hard if we produce too much we're going to burn out so six days six days we work on the seventh day we rest six years we work in the seventh year we rest it's all about the total legislating the total regulating the Torah requiring us to be focused not only on the P but to be focused on the PC the productivity capability as well and that's important however that entirely misses the point of Shabbos never listen carefully as we are turning our Friday into air of Shabbos listen carefully the Shabbos we're about to go into the salon it's not just that I rest on Shabbos to rejuvenate and re-energize and get ready to go back to the weak it's not just that Shabbos is all about productivity capability that's missing the boat missing the point of Shabbos Shabbos is tactless even if I never went back to work afterwards but I worked hard only to have Shabbos Shabbos is the goal Shabbos is not the means Shabbos is not what I'm doing to get back into work and back into the week Shabbos is not just protecting my productivity capability so I can get back to producing and productivity Shabbos is the tacos Shabbos is the goal Shabbos is why we're here the whole world exists for six days and then on Shabbos God renews the contract and extends it for another year that's the purpose that is what Shabbos is all about and that's what we say in our dabbling is God who rested on the seventh day God doesn't need to rest for productivity capability he doesn't need to rest in order to produce and re-energize and rejuvenate but it's a tactical God rested because rest is an ends into itself not just the means and we too when we go into Shabbos Shabbos is not how much can I sleep how much can I take off how much can I disconnect how much can I have in a weekly sabbatical Chavez is not just a weekly sabbatical where I take off from work in order to rejuvenate re-energize and take care of our well-being Shabbos is the destination Shabbos is the goal Shabbos is the tacos I do all the work during the week and the payoff of Shabbos it's not that I rest on Shabbos and the payoff is now I have a good work week I work all week so I can have the payoff of Shabbos it's an entirely different perspective and different view it's an entirely different goal of what Shabbos is really all about so we should go into the helicopas turn our Friday into air of Shabbos to realize spend today these last moments these last time we have getting ready for Shabbos get ready make that push on our Shabbos shower and shave and change set the table and walk in with Delicacies and delicious food but walking with a divartora walking with the zimiros and walk in not see if Shabbos is just PC productivity capability so eat the meal as quickly as you can get to sleep as fast as you can disconnect as much as you can and do nothing because the less you do the more you'll rest the better you'll have productivity that's not what it's about Shabbos is not about quickly rushing be off disconnect it's find the energy for Shabbos Shabbos is the tacos so don't find the energy to work all week and have no energy to have meaningful conversation and meaningful time and beautiful singing on Shabbos when do we need the most energy coming Shabbos so take a nap on Friday a Friday nap my dear friend Brian gabbit he used to nap not always with consent but he would nap on shot on Friday when he could sneak in that couple minutes in order to have what it would take to have the most beautiful Shabbos meals don't push yourself on Friday work hard walk in the last of your 18 minutes so you could pass out Friday night rest a nap on Friday so you could have the most the most cavali kashabas that's what it's really all about a totally New Perspective Shabbos is we work all week and we sleep all week so we have the energy and the attention and the focus and the drive to have the most helical Shabbos so have a beautiful Friday turn your Friday into Arab Shabbos and in order to have the most beautiful Haley gashavis you could have stay happy stay healthy and stay holy Shabbos have a beautiful Shabbos everybody