Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #15 - Shabbos is the Source of All Blessing

good error Shaab is to all thank you so much for joining as we gather each Friday afternoon and try to collectively get ready for Shabbos to turn Friday into Erev Shabbos it's not just another day of the week it's a special day of the week it's not just Friday it's Erev Shabbos it's an entirely different way to experience our day it's a different way to enter the Shabbos and the chaos the hustle the bustle the transition into the serenity of Shabbos from already experiencing Shabbos on Friday in fact we have a concept an ocean we're not going to get into today we'll talk about more another time a something called Tosa fish shop is the idea that we don't wait for Shabbos to happen to us this is a precedent in Hawaiian this Mika's Harbor program we've been learning about to set Rishabha some of the Lum disty analytical understanding of this time period as well as some of its laws how we accept Shabbos even before it descends upon us Shabbos happens whether you're ready or not when the Sun sets Shabbos begins ready or not here it comes however instead of waiting for Shabbos to greet us we can greet it Tosa for Shabbos submission abura postions so Sheva Shabbos they didn't do Raisa there's a biblical commandment and a biblical fulfillment by greeting Shabbos instead of waiting for Shabbos to greet us and that's really what we do whether you're making the plug the early Shabbos of this mom the late Shabbos or something in between when we get together at 6 o'clock on Fridays we are together not formally accepting Shabbos certainly we couldn't do it this way over technology but we are beginning to feel the energy to draw the excitement and the enthusiasm to be able to imbue and inject our homes with that atmosphere that's already filled with the sights and the sounds and the smells and the flavors and the appearance are set Shabbos table but also our learning about Shabbos gets us ready why is there such an emphasis on Shabbos so almost every week I come across something that connects our parsha to the idea of the excitement of the Shabbos that we are experiencing and this week is no different the Posche of the Halos car it connected to both the parsha we're reading in America and the parasha were reading in Israel this week although I hope nobody from Israel is tuning in right now and we're preparing for next week in America Oracle Solaris the partial sloth and really hopefully something that applies each and every year not necessarily connected to our partial partial tells us am opening a menorah yoshida-san arrows the menorah the candelabra in the Mishkan later in the base that Mukesh was lit by the Kohanim by Aaron and his sons his progeny and they were instructed that the seven branches of the candelabra six of the branches pointed in three on one side three on the other side and the middle branch that stood upright was the centerpiece the six other branches lean they tilted they were directed towards that middle branch a looping a menorah yeah yoshida-san arrows so the surah mac adoshem thus awesome as the shame is Shmuel the gary above the soffit remember the prasada kurta the cocoon of lublin all of them all of them interpret the menorah is being a symbol what does it mean that there are six branches three before and three after that all linked the central branch that means that the central branch is an allusion to Shabbos and the three branches that lean from one direction or Wednesday Thursday and Friday in the three branches that lean from the other direction our Sunday Monday and Tuesday the six days of the week are laurel are all oriented towards the central branch towards Shabbos it means for a Jew our entire life revolves literally around Shabbos we're either getting ready we're anticipating we're preparing for Shabbos or we are still basking in the glory we're still impacted by the inspiration we're still coming off the high we're still carrying and capturing with us what we achieved that previous Shabbos Shabbos is not just any other day of the week and Shabbos was not instituted as a day of rest because somehow unless you ever turn your computer your phone off it's going to burn out you're going to destroy the battery it's not simply that we would destroy the battery if we go seven straight days a week it's that our entire lives it's the tactless mass embrasures it's the essence it's the goal it's what our lives are all directed to Wednesday we already say in this year shall you home at the end of darling Lagoon around Anna Wednesday we already greet one another have a good Erev Shabbos Wednesday is not Wednesday Wednesday is not hump day Wednesday is not the middle of the week Wednesday's already Arab for a Jew lacunar Anna we're shopping for Shabbos we're putting together our menu for Shabbos in normal times please God we'll get to them again soon we're coming up with our guest list for Shabbos Wednesday is not just an ordinary day Wednesday is already Erev Shabbos and certainly all the more so our Thursday and Friday and Sunday Monday and Tuesday are not thank God Shabbos is behind me I can go back to the wheat day in my technology Sunday and Monday and Tuesday I'm still connected how do I know that the halacha tells me a person who didn't make Abdullah on Motz a Shabbos a person who for whatever reason somebody last week was in the hospital of a Shabbos had several questions before Shabbos after question I was how do you make of dela person is debilitated a person is is unable to unconscious a person who's traveling whatever the circumstances a person is unable to make of dela on multi Shabbos how long do you have how logically to make Abdullah until when can you make Abdullah so how locker says until Tuesday Tuesday is still part of the previous Shabbos come Wednesday lunar on Anna come Wednesday it's already air of the next Shabbos so from Sunday to Tuesday have the ballina have the status the identity have the energy that we're still basking in from the previous Shabbos Wednesday Thursday Friday are already Erev Shabbos so you see the three branches of the candelabra before point to Shabbos and the three branches of the candelabra after Shabbos point back at Shabbos so the menorah when you looked at the menorah you are looking at a Jew Advent ona orientation to the week you are looking at a visual orientation of how the week should be structured three branches toward Shabbos Wednesday Thursday Friday and three branches still drawing from Shabbos Sunday Monday Tuesday you can still say Havdalah Wednesday Thursday Friday lunar on Anna you're already greeting one another Arab shamisen what's what it means to be a shomer Shabbos to be a shomer Shabbos is to anticipate yeah I'm still long for Shabbos to look for Shabbos the Apter of they already throw a bomb you show a show and others say that the word shomer Shabbos doesn't mean to observe Shabbos once Shabbos arrives like the the Apter of the overthrow sends us telepathic via leaves America devar when Yosef was alienated from Yaakov when Yaakov was longing he was inconsolable he was unwilling to give up on his son Yosef the PASOK says Darvish America d'Ivoire the Yakka was holding on Shamar so what is the word Shamar means as the actor of Shamar doesn't mean to observe Shabbos Shamar means to look to anticipate with excitement with enthusiasm of the sense of a countdown so when is a Jewish shomer Shabbos not when the Sun Goes Down on Friday you become a Shama Shama starting on Wednesday when you say looking around and it's a Shabbos your shomer Shabbos when Sunday Monday and Tuesday you're still repeating did you hear the incredible word let me tell you the amazing songs we sang let me tell you the kind of Shabbos let me tell you the conversation or Shabbos table let me tell you why do you look so happy why are you walking in cloud nine because let me tell you about my Shabbos for us the entire week revolves around Chavez not as a coping mechanism for Jews for century millennia the reality of life was so harsh that a person wanted to escape in the cocoon the refuge of Shabbos Shabbos is not a coping mechanism Shabbos is tackle tackle as massive malicious as we've said so many times already it's not that I rest on Shabbos so that I can get back to going to work the rest of the week I worked the whole week so that I could earn an experience Shabbos that's why I'm doing it why do I work so hard to earn money in order to be able to enjoy my Shamas why am i spending so much time with my children invested in the Jewish ideals and values and a lifestyle and identity so we could be together for Shabbos it's not that Shabbos I get to schlurf so that I have what it takes to get back to work for the week I worked that whole week so I have what it takes to fully immerse myself and experience Shabbos and that's the connection to next week's Pasha because there's an amazing magician precious rock the end of next week's partially of the story that sits us men are obligated in the midst of census in fact just last week a woman asked me what are those strings hanging out she said you know I've seen a bunch of people who have them and I was talking to my girl about them she says I'm Catholic what are those strings I said where did you see people with them we're in the middle of a pandemic she said at the Publix Publix is the supermarket in South Florida she said in my Publix I see a bunch of men it's good to know I'm Boka the men do the shopping and she sees a bunch of men I'm sure with masks on their face and distancing and with cities hanging out of their pants she said what are their strengths I said you know how people tie a string around their finger when they want to remember something important we have shrinks coming out of our clothing in order to remember the thing it's most important who we are and how we're meant to behave and to whom we answer and hopefully to give us the mindfulness therefore to live the best versions of ourselves the lives were meant to live but there's an amazing magician by Midway robbed of the majors robbed by next week's passionate the end of schlock tells us the following martial law officer in michl Akiyama it gives us a description of individuals cast into the sea and they are flailing their arms and they're trying to to float and they're trying to survive a hoe sheila a carbonate is horrible normally it first levels there the captain of the ship this person fell overboard throws a rope and says grab on to the rope and caused much our mobile application I'm as long as you hope a life preserver as long as you hold on to the Rope you'll have life you're making contact with life if you let go then you're going to dive cause much like I'll be okay she's looking fine oh gosh I came to tariqa the Kenyan believe issued the air of Shaba some cachaca so solanum rabbit attaches and he says true that measure specifically is talking about about cities and the mid-surface it says that when we hold on not literally but figuratively hold on for the cities what they're meant to remind us they elevate us and they transform us and that cities play the role they're meant to then we hold on to it then we're able to survive even though the turbulent waves and even being cast to sea and even the harsh winds and even the things that try to force us under and drown us to make us suffocate and give up when you hold on then you're able to survive you're able to gasp for air you're able to be able to resist and you're able to carry on and the sonim rebel applies the measures from Paris Rock about cities to Shamas kodesh says all week long we're flailing your arms and we're trying to float and we're trying to survive and we gasping for air and how true is it in our time where we're following the data and information and the news and trying to make sense at all trying to anticipate when we're kind of out of it all and we're simply the wind and the turbulent a storm and the waves they're trying to push us under and make us drown and suffocate and we hold on to that rope that rope is called Shabbos Shabbos lifts us a shamisen Able's us to survive it's Jaime Lamar Ozzy Kimba Tora Shan bizarre Nate's hi I'm there living tree that the life preserver Lamar has II Kimba if we hold on to it we can rise up and he quotes from the direction boil and we'll end with this a beautiful insight and an expansion of that metaphor of that muscle by the durational he says example of other muhammad there was much irrigation who taught of collage said that's most of robert ami the Rademacher he says an individual who's walking through they get stuck in the rain gets stuck in the rain i hear then weather in new york is magnificent the weather in Florida is incredibly hot we've had several downpours we don't mind them we're trying to refill the Kaelin mikvah but we wish they would come at night while we were sleeping now she quotes goes out that's the best brocco when the rain comes at night while we're sleeping imagine a person is walking they get caught in a torrential downpour in Florida one moment it could be a sunny clear sky you start you go for your walk and a minute later literally a moment's notice all of us on the sky turns black a torrential downpour and the person is soaked from head to toe and they're walking and they're drenched and they now weigh a million pounds their clothing their shoes and they're hungry and they're tired and your delicious ad says Menasha and he doesn't know how am I gonna survive but where am I gonna go and will I ever dry out being a pet the pet on this gasolina box Sonya Thomas sheesh but so comical Tove and all the sudden they raised their eyes and they say wow there's a place for me to stay wow there's a warm place to talk a marshmallow it's warm in temperature and it's warm in terms of its people Nicholas Ponemah assured the god of our to enlarge my garden Hakeem but off leash I saw this coming my Kiev nap show and you enter that warm and generous hospitable place you eat and drink and you change your clothing and we spread it out to dry that either Coco's mccoullough Hampshire caliber doc oh and now you sip that hot coffee that hot cocoa the tea your clothing is drying out you're wearing something clothes something warm you snuggle up next to the fire and the person gives you a warm word and you fill your belly and you you hop a schlurf and you wake up with this energy I'm ready to go on Shabbos codice yeah Sonya Sharona matzo-ball Manoa Dashami I knew who UGA koa nicola diagnose are you soon Shabbos is the place that the Yona found manuka and we find manuka Shami a nucleic ei Khoa those who have run out of strength they've run out of energy I don't know you're not battling all week long how we are in my living and how do I make sense of this data and what's going to be and what will my children do the governor in New York just announced they'll be no sleep-wake camps the state of New York this summer and a lot of people just had a wrench thrown in their plans but this was the final nail in the coffin of their summer what be all week long filled with such anxiety and worry and uncertainty were thrown about and then we enter Shabbos as they are Sonia Shabbos is that resort stay Shabbos is the four seasons Shabbos is the ritz-carlton of life of time that we enter it and it's luxury and we're waited on hand and foot and everything is so perfect and the customer service is amazing and we immerse ourselves in it to draw that energy and that hope and the optimism to come out Shama yeah new who UGA co-op when you sing this zimmer tonight when you sing you're on a matzah shaumyan of the tomorrow's shaumyan ooh-hoo they're those who want to rest there are those who are tired will rest me called I guess I assumed from all the worry man Yanomami got me a game is a goof from the things that exhaust of the things that cause us to lose our sense of hope so tilt your candelabra carry on with Shabbos Sunday Monday Tuesday still make of Delaware still connected experience the kind of Shabbos that will stay with you you ever text someone or speak to them the day or two after they've made a simcha and you know what they tell you I'm still on cloud nine and I'm still looking at the videos of the pictures I still can't believe I experienced that I'm still living the wedding I'm still living the bar myths I'm still living the brisk two-three days weeks later they're still living it that's what it means the three arms of the of the menorah that come after Shabbos are tittle tore Shabbos and Wednesday Thursday Friday the three arms of the menorah that come before Shabbos are tilted toward Shabbos with anticipation well Lucia Marisa devar to truly be we should be so her to truly be shomer Shabbos to keep Shabbos not just on Shabbos strictly the thirty-nine malakas but to keep Shabbos all week long in our anticipation in our excitement and certainly all of you who've joined us Erev Shabbos six o'clock a crazy time whatever Shabbos you're making it's inconvenient and nevertheless here we are a group of Jews who are thirsty and longing to have an appetite for Shabbos wishing everyone a happy healthy and a holy chalice