Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #177 - Shabbos Purifies

good Arab shabas today is not Friday today is Arab shabus we are here to get ready for chabas chabas doesn't wait for us it finds US waiting for her excited looking forward counting up immersing ourselves transforming ourselves turning our Friday into a shabas turn Friday a shabas is generously sponsored memory Friday day of shabas today is also sponsored by my dear and beloved in-laws Dr Robert and Judy Brookton in commemoration of the urite of our Z was on second of and alah turn Friday into Arab shabas we are here to turn our Friday into AR shabas and I want to share with you an Insight in teaching of the Hala the holy SL the great SL SL points out that chabas is not just on the calendar doesn't just come incidentally doesn't just come on its own chabas is not just yet another day that we get through that we pass by that we mark off but chabas is our existence chabas is what we live for chabas is the Tas of M it's the essence it's the goal it's the destination it's why we work hard it's what we work towards it's what we Savor it's what we are living for it's the beauty of shabas and that's why we always find this notion of seven days the notion of seven seven is not a whole number seven is A peculiar number and yet seven everything seems to rotate and revolve around the war number seven so the par that we're reading now though if you're listening to this any time of the year it's relevant next weeks the mits the individual who spoke negatively who gossiped who slandered who marginalized others they are secluded sequestered for seven days seven days sequestered isolated alone and then another seven days similarly a woman who conceives and then gives birth to a baby boy how long is she impure seven days if it's a baby girl two weeks two times seven days we always find this notion of seven days shabas is the seventh day chabas comes on day seven not only shabas is the seventh day you find this as well pesak is in Israel seven days suus is seven days sh is after seven weeks the number seven is always primary for Hashem how shabas and our holidays are established it's what's necessary for the process of the T the impure mits to purify himself once again in fact tell us all sevens are precious to hasem hasem loves the number seven what is it about this number seven what is it about this count andom explains to us that what is what is present in the number seven is shabas chabas is the core shabas is the source shabas is the battery shabas is the engine shabas is the driver Shas shabas is the it is the life force of the H Bria so it's not that I rest on chabas I have energy for the week it's I work the whole week so I can return to and restore with shabas the whole week long I live a superficial material life I've got a work so I have money to pay tuition mortgage my house I have food to eat but chabas I'm able to take a step back from and able to distinguish myself from the limitations and the draw and the gravity the gravity of this Earth and to transcend and to rise above and to extract ourselves from the physical to live the Nish to live for the spiritual to live for the spiritual it's the it is the life force the of all writes in fact that the whole world is only ever renewed for another week and shabas when we tap into and immerse ourselves in chabas that's how we reestablish our contract we earn yet another week of the world so it was a necessary part the person who gossiped or slandered who made someone else feel alone and isolated who needed to experience that themselves they needed to be alone through a shabas shabas is what is is what purifies a person is what gives us some scope some perspective some space and margin to think to sing to laugh to learn to read to study to rest to be to restore to rejuvenate to reconnect so shabas is a critical and necessary prerequisite criteria to be M so whether it's the woman who gave birth or whether it is the mits they have to go through a unit of seven because every seven includes a shabas and one needs chabas in order to restore and rejuvenate and return one needs chabas in order to reset one needs chabas in order to have scope and perspective one needs chabas in order to connect too with amuna to Hashem shabas is what lets us Elevate from this entire world that is filled with lies and untruths that's what the writes he says elevates all of existence this whole world is filled with lies we're going to talk about it next we're going to talk about gas Exile is being in a world of lies lies about Israel lies about genocide lies about civilians lies about Jews and anti-Semitism lies and fake News lies and internet that's filled with lies this whole world is aner we disconnect from it on shabas and we return to the MS shabas were able to return the physical material world is filled with illusion it's filled with Distortion it's filled filled with lies shabas we go back to reality shabas we go back to truth shabas we go back to authenticity shabas resets us it's the compass through which we can navigate this entire world and therefore a year a Jew needs to go through shabas we look forward to we long for we can't wait for the holy chabas to connect with it to be elevated by it and with it to elevate the whole Bria to elevate the entire world the meas says see how great shabas is by the fact that there is no Jewish holiday that doesn't include a shabas from pesak to sukus to khaka it all includes a shabas even Shas is seven weeks of seven you need to go through seven chabas before you could count toas you see the greatness rabas in order for any of these categories of impure people to become purified they have to first go through a shabas shabas has that cleansing power chabas has that transformation power shabas has that capacity that's why it says one place it says two chabas another one one chabas but a Jew has to go through a chabas or two chabas then we would be redeemed to really go through shabas so shabas should not be something that we dread or we work hard for or we C about or miserable or we're negative shabas should be what we long for it's the it is the life force and we're transforming we're traveling to another place shabus is literally another world so the same way that if you're traveling you pack you make sure you have your passport what time are we leaving to the airport we got to get there early we got to figure it all out that's what turning Friday into AR of shabas is all about if you realize that chabas we're transporting to an entirely other world and another place then Friday is the preparation for that transport getting ready for that journey and for that travel so Friday is not Friday Friday becomes this air of chabas how do we travel how do we transport how do we get ready how do we spiritually pack how are we spiritually where's our spiritual passport how are we spiritually ready to travel and to Journey do we have an A of shabas Music Mix are we preparing stories and D Tor do we print out the partial perspectives three for three dor to share at the shabas table that we try to share each and every week how do we get ready how do we transform and turn so to we should turn our Friday into a shabas when we do transport ourselves to higher and higher places tap into this beauty that is chabas the the yff of all Ys the next holiday shabas we're right now in this PES mode pesak prep PES getting ready sell the cas the kitchen bu the matah but pesak is exciting as it is every holiday has to have shabas because chabas is the ultimate holiday and every week we could look forward to the next yff and that next yff is shabas so we should have a chabas that transforms and a shabas that transports and a shabus that elevates and a shabas that redeem shabas should bring good news BOS toos the hostages should come home with we should defeat our enemies should be a beautiful beautiful shabas together [Music]