Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #14 - Enter Shabbos With Mindfulness

good arrow Shabbos to everyone thank you for coming back I'm also appreciative on think everyone else is still scurrying and hurrying to get ready that you actually show up and join me as we transition from the chaos of the weekday to the serenity and the peace and the tranquility that we crave of Shabbos that we immerse ourselves in the refuge and in the ear mickeleh in the space of Shabbos that protects us and preserves us that re-energizes us that rejuvenates us and ultimately the Chaves is the great braja in our lives every one of us craves braja we know that before this pandemic and the required distancing in quarantining people would line up to go get a Baraka great kid Dolan great tsadikim righteous men and when people would line up to be able to get a Baraka even to be able to hear the great sound the Quran can ask you simply say boo ha brockett's laka there's a line through his apartment down the stairs and up the block that is the power and that is the craving of Abraha everybody wants a bra how we want the some righteous individual to wish us auspicious tidings to give us a brush-off for good health and happiness for not us from our children for pono so everybody wants Abraha i want to tell you an amazing story that happened the true story when during world war ii 24 rabbis were being held in italy and they were threatened that they were gonna be returned to nazi-occupied Europe and if they did of course they would surely face death these 24 rabbis if they went back to the Nazi Europe they would have been exterminated along with so many others Hashem you calm down mom the famous rabbi Ravana Cutler shouts out the founding Russia Shiva of the Shiva of Lakewood one of the Gazzola Easter all of America at the time turned to the well-known Orthodox activist Irving bunam and he said these 24 hours the two of them were involved in in activity in order to save Jews during the Holocaust and he told her we Bunin these 24 great rabbis they're being held captive in Italy and if they're returned to Nazi Europe they'll surely die we have to do all that we can in order procure their release and their safety in order to make sure that they don't go back so erm you know he said Italy they're being held in Italy who was influenced in Italy where can we turn and Irving beat him suggested to the violent Kuttler that they go to the Italian mafia and that's exactly what they did Irving bunam contacted the mafia I don't know exactly how one goes about doing that and after contacting them he said to her of Kotler of our own will you come to the we'll go together and Ravana replied immediately we'll go let's go we're going so off they went to meet the Godfather of the Mafia Jobin Bonanno and with Cutler didn't speak English well of couple his native tongue was it was Yiddish he couldn't speak English well so he asked mr. buena in bunam to explain the problem to the mafia boss to the godfather Joe Bonanno explained to him 24 hours they're being held and we need their release so the mafia boss the Godfather asked mr. bunin who's the elderly man you doing all the talking who's the man with the long beard who's the man sitting next to you so even being thought to himself for a moment and he said that's the Godfather of the Jewish people so all the Jewish people asked the Mafia chief so everything PNM said yeah yeah that's the Godfather that's the boss of all the Jewish people so banana said tell him I want a blessing so mr. Freeman Irving bunam turned to Ivana Kotler and in Yiddish she said FL abraca from the road he wants a Bravo from the RAF so if Cutler replied Zygon Rizzo Laban lung and starvin in bet he should live a long life and died in his bed now that may not seem like such a braja to us but if you're a mafia boss who may have a target on your back you're operating in an underground an underworld living a long life and dying in your bed are not a given and in fact they make for a pretty good Baraka so beautiful the Mafia chief job and not only told him the rabbi blesses you with a long life and offers you the blessing that you should die in your bed upon hearing it the mafia chief replied I like that and indeed he made the phone calls necessary he arranged the freedom of the 24-hour boys who were stuck in Italy and indeed they found that their freedom now the PostScript of the story and we'll get to our Erev Shabbos message is that a number of years later a black stretch limo drove up in front of base mesh cover and Lakewood the Lakewood yeshiva and to our dress guys got out and walked up to the office and they were looking for rabbi Cutler out came Ravana caught the son of Shannara Cutler's that saw and he told them I'm rabbi Cutler so the two well-dressed Italian men said no no no an older rabbi we're looking for an older rabbi rabbi Cutler solution I said that that was my father but he has since passed away and I'm gonna buy coupler the Italian man wanted to relate they said our Father always attributed his long life to your saintly father's blessing and now that he retired in 1964 were taken over the business and we've come to get the same blessing so ocean air Cutlass said I'm sorry that was that was my father and I'm not on his high level and with that the Mafia sons bid farewell to her Slayer Cutler and they left but for saving 24 a buys Joe Bonanno the Mafia godfather in fact lived google it to the age of 97 years old and perhaps on account of the blessing or allowance Braja he did die where he died in his in his bed everybody wants a brother even a mafia boss so this week parsha has the series the quintessential Jewish Baraka as the miracles come on him in it the Brock of the corn and give the Jewish people the braja parents give their children Friday night the Braja that we bear it on the event ovum Ashkenazim stardom each and every day it has the great beer cast Cohen him but there is a Braja that were able to achieve without having to go to Bnei Brak and wait in line to zero crime Kenney ASCII is a brothel you can get if you're asking Ozzie and it's not pass actual users focus and there's not gonna be any darling this abraca everyone access to and we have access to it on a regular basis we sing in laka Dodi about Shabbos we describe Shabbos as key Hema core hob raha yeah the broth of Godot lamb they're great and the broccoli you get from doing certain mitzvahs beautiful but you know what the Mac or the source the central place the driver that inspires all Brava is the Heyliger Shabbes Shabbos is mcore hob raha it is the source of Abraha so you know you come to Shabbos and you fall asleep and you squander your time and you read the wrong things and say the wrong things and fail to appreciate the right things then you squander away Shabbos but then you wait in line for a bracha from a god oh you've neglected the macabre huh you've neglected the source of all braja in order to turn to other forms of Brava Shabbos is macabre it is the source of all braja this famous rights this is quoted by the ravisher shalita the de soie Sammis writes the poshest Macias kappa him in the majesty so she's difficult Barbara Avram Aveeno by profession in sewer Broca's beardo Avram also was promised that baha through You Avram will be or braja Shabbos is macabre FEMA and Avram is McCrory Baraka the nations of the world that will bless you will be blessed those who tap into who hold on to you will be blessed Avram is the source of raha and Shabbos is the source of Baraka and the Baraka that Avram was given in order to charge in order to bless the world was the Baraka of bierko's Cohen him what is this braja what is the word braja where does it come from what does it mean what is it that we are achieving so this fast Emma says because Cohen Domitian MacCachren have really sure sure that one is attaching creation the natural world bringing it back and connecting it to its roots that we don't look at the rain or the wind we don't even look at a corona virus and a pandemic we don't look at the good or the bad all that's happening in our life and think it's random or chance or happenstance but rather we see it as by design we understand where it comes from there's a rabona shalom there's a neighbor store there's an almighty and he is pulling the strings he is working he is creating he is curating he's orchestrating is choreographing the entire world everything in it and our job our mission is when we look around the world who are detached from God and godliness who think the world is filled with simply randomness and chance our mission our charge our responsibility our job as a nation of carnem is to bring Braja to the world and what is the greatest brava to return things to their show rush to their roots that is our mission broca's melash embrace' the word blessing barakah comes from the word break a stream a flow like their Hebrew show talk Tony my own hymns openly bracha when we attach to the lower world in the upper world we are married Abraha when does the stream when does the influence when does the influx of blunt flux and blessing come when we understand where it comes from when we show appreciation and gratitude when we turn and when we ask when we say thank you and when we praise when we take the mundane lower world and we elevate it so it makes contact and it touches the upper world when do we do that which day of the week know more then Shabbos Shabbos is May in Olam haba here we are in this world eating food sleeping operating as physical beings physical universe yet we make contact with our soul we nourish on achhamma we live a taste of Olam haba main Olam haba it is a taste of the world to come we are connecting heaven and earth through our immersion in an experience of Shabbes that is the source of raqqa that is in fact the definition of braga the Islamic is Oh Bettina shabu-shabu the show show when we bring everything back to its roots when we are at peace with nature we're not manipulating and controlling nature but rather we are at peace with nature that's braja la Haine sha basic Oklahoma shockabra Edition is Cobra Cola shorris by Daisy who shares Cola Bracco's so we come to Shabbos my friends and we turn off our technology and we disconnect from our car and we turn off our work and our tasks and our to-do lists when we come to Shabbos and we are at peace with the world around us not trying to conquer it and control it and manipulate it we've attached heaven and earth when we go back to our roots of who we are and who are meant to be when we nourish under Shama we would turn off the noise and we listen to our inner voice that is the source of our Baraka that's what it means Kashima core Braja Shabbos is the source of all Baraka so SMS points out that it's not a coincidence that America's calling him how many broca's are that we called the broth on the shoe lashes to threefold Braja it's called the threefold bracha but in fact there are six brothers even raka fashion one dish Muraki - yes shampoo Nabila ha 3b Chanukah for hashem Bonneville AHA 5v our same Locker Shalom it's pretty good at money buddy Cohen is number six six brokers that we call to threefold braja it's really made up each bracha have two parts one a 1 B 2 a 2 B 3 a 3 B so it's really six Bracco's which begs the question why is it called the Baraka mr. luscious we have great answers but for another time there are six broca's and then how does the section of miracles Cohen and end Vania var fame it comes through the coenen but ultimately where does the Brava come from but any of our fame is from a college bar who the brother is from Hashem Vania var came I give the bracha says this famous the six brothers the brothers corner correspond with the six days of the week and Vania var Fame corresponds with Shabbos so all week long we are a mom lockers come on him all week long we are a nation priest and we spread our hands and we give the Vulcan blessing of live long and prosper I did a video earlier today that Leonard Nimoy of blessed memory credited his attending an Orthodox rule in his youth and seeing the beer Cosco on him as inspiring the Vulcan greeting and how he held his hands for that Vulcan greeting be long and live long and prosper but the mayor says that a Kurdish board who is looking through the fingertips that's why we don't look at the condoms hand when they give the blessing the Cohen him take their hands and bring blessing to the world and a Shem drives that blessing and we too we too are the source are meant to be the source of blessing in other people's lives we have to be a show up and be that blessing we rama melaka scorned him we are a nation of priests six days a week we're out there being that baraha and the seventh day then we merit vania our fame that hashem brings and gives that Brocket us so i give all of us the barakah that we should live long and died in our beds we should all be zoca to live long and to prosper we should be zurka we should merit to immerse ourselves fully in the sanctuary of Shabbos to be able to detach and disconnect both from the pandemic and pandemonium of the world to experience the paradise that is Shabbos that we should immerse ourselves in that cocoon to feel safe and healthy serene to feel inspired to connect heaven and earth and in that way to achieve and to draw from the greatest brothers that there are have a holy a healthy and a happy Shabbos you