Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #165 - Leave the World of Lies and Enter the World of Truth

a good Arab shabas everyone we are here to turn Friday into Arab shabas it should be a good Arab shabas and a good shabas filos yes we should hear good news and want to thank our generous [Music] sponsors it's not Friday May say Friday on our calendar but we know that it is er of shabas we are turning our Friday into a of shabas as we are getting ready to find ourselves in chabas we need chabas more than ever in MIT we're reading the par now the of our suffering and servitude in Egypt that backbreaking labor a labor that is so intense that they weren't even able to hear mosha mosha comes and he says I've got great news shabas is coming freedom is coming Liberty is coming emancipation is coming space expansion broadening I've got great news and they say ah get lost I can't change my circumstance I can't change my feeling I can't change my condition I can't change my attitude I can't change get lost I can't change I simply can't change the Holy says that chabas is the time of yes chabas is Serenity chabas is tranquility when we're so fragmented and divided and split and splintered when we're so distracted and we're so um seduced by the Temptations when we're so overwhelmed by the pressures and the stresses we can immerse ourselves and find sanctuary and refuge in chabas disconnect from the world and reconnect to what matters most build that cocoon that force field around yourself called shabas and when we do that all of a sudden all during the week they're static can't hear we can't hear we're not hearing our spouse we're not hearing our children we're not hearing the world we're not hearing Hashem we're not hearing nature we're not hearing we're not hearing all the messages that are being broadcast to us Shu we can't hear because of our spirit is suffering our spirit is suffocated our s spirit is silenced and that work we're running we're going we're doing we're answering we're scrolling we're watching we're listening we have so many to-do so many task so much technology so many pressure so much news of the world Lo Shamu the whole week is characterized by an inability to listen to hear and shabas is all of a sudden now the frequency Chang shabas the static dissipates shabas is all of a sudden the ability we could leave that of Gus we can leave that state of being frantic the whole week of scurrying of running of rushing says we have AR rest shabas our schedule our timing our technology are disconnect and that Holy expanded on fire Soul the Soul's antenna is extended the soul that picks up greater reception the soul that gives us this greater sense of being is shortness of breath is a soul that is shrinking shabas is a time of a soul which is expanding so shabas comes and all of a sudden that we can hear and we can listen we can take in and we can embibe those messages it is the exact opposite of not being able to hear it is the of having Serenity Tranquility a sense of yes Hadas shabas gives a person that's why parro was goes there to take away shabas parro took away chabas because he understood if we just people keep people addicted to their technology addicted to their work if we don't give people breath and space to think to be to breathe to exist then they can't hear they won't hear a message even of the ability to to liberate to free themselves to have emancipation to have freedom so par was go there and the world is goer this on us only we are our own parro where're goes are on ourselves because when we are addicted to and can't free ourselves of our technology of news and it's important to pay attention to the news these days to feel and to be inspired and motivated to mean something to make a difference when it comes to the news out of arel and elsewhere of course it's critically important but not in a way that we are obsessive that we are compulsive that are perseverating that we are paralyzing ourselves that we are in fact unable to hear or to listen to the messages that are all around us so shabas hea friends we're turning our Friday into ER of shabas we're getting ready to transition into chabas into that place of of listening to not have K to not have a r a spirit which is in Retreat which is shrinking but a spirit which is expanding in which is I'll read to you the words of who's just a guest in our Community recently his beautiful insights on the parish this week the work of today of turned Friday into a of shabas of every Friday of every aab chabas is to begin to extract ourselves from the place of where we can't hear to where we can listen well to lower the volume on all the news of Our Lives to cre begin to create the space and the margin to enter a shabas where we're capable of hearing of listening of being inspired of disconnecting from world to reconnect to what matters to go from the world the AL of this world the six days of creation a world of Temptation a world of upside down and inside out a world of Israel on trial for genocide as a at the Hague is a world of Al it's a world of Lies into the world of truth of shabas we make the mistake of thinking shabas is the escape really the six days of the real world and for one day 24 hours we escape into shabas but it's the opposite sh is the real world we're listening best careful and most sensitive and six days we go back into the Alik it's a world of Temptation it's a world of drive it's a world of distortion it's a world of manipulation it's a world of upside down it's a world in Al so Friday we turn our Friday into Shas time of we need to atone for take responsibility for buying into the Alik maybe we were moved and driven by K and by Envy and jealousy and by lust and desire and by the pursuit of honor and these three things they take you out of the the world that's a world of Truth and they put you into an Al if all you care about is honor and Glory then in your social media profile you're willing to do anything for friends and followers and likes and reposts and retweets you spend money you pay Bots you post things that are beneath you because we're in Alik if all you care about is c for TAA what people will do for TAA the world of shikra and for for uh for Kenna envy and jealousy because they want to keep up with others so we have to get out of that Al the shikra of that world which is clouded a world that we don't see clearly into the world of shabas and that is what Friday is all about we turn our Friday into shabas how do we turn Friday into a of shabas when we transition from the AL to the Ms from a world that's filled with lies and distortions to the world of shabas the world of Truth when we get out of a place that we can't hear and we go into the place where we have an that is on fire so he friends wishing you a holy not only a holy shabas a holy ER of chabas we should be successful in our effort to do chuva in our effort to realize the real world and the fake world to desperately desire to get into that real world and to remain there as long as possible to bring it in early and to hold on to it a little bit late to experience a little bit of to shabas the Beauty and the Holiness of a long and a prolonged chabas and please God it should be a shabas it should give us that chabas being in a place where our is on fire where we can hear the real truth which should and Merit [Music] that beautiful