Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #19 - A Special Spice Called Shabbos

good Erev Shabbos everyone thank you so much for joining together again as we usher in the Shabbos and transition from the weekday filled with this its anxiousness and uncertainty to Shabbos filled with all the answers wholesomeness feeling complete and serene and peaceful and faith finally we could have Shabbos more often but alas it is a treasure that was designated for us only once a week and not each and every day when I thank our generous sponsors Mindy and seaport of fishermen my dear friends as asked us for higher if capacity poor afraid oh and again thank them for supplying this beautiful safer that we've been learning together before we get back into the safer and where we last left off last week when we got ready for Shabbos to welcome Shabbos to immerse ourselves in child was to be transformed by Shabbos and to be elevated enriched by Shabbos to take off our vaca DIC upon my weekday punim filled with worries and wrinkles and gray hair watching a lot of people I I have always been precocious I went gray before Korona I've always tried to be ahead of the curve but I've watched others go gray during Korona so we take off our fob listen upon him are worried pardon my anxious punim are winkled punim are gray punim and we put on our Shabbos our Shabbos finest and we feel the sense of joy and tranquility so I shared on our whatsapp group but we Friday we have whatsapp group those who want to sign up to turn Friday and tariff Shabbos with another idea and I shared today we're learning in our Smythe's cover share and ones on Sunday nights the halacha have had Walker's naira style office of candle lighting it's very interesting how lock about candle lighting many people don't know many people don't observe thanks to our smokeless cover program I know that many more people are observing it now when we lit candles in antiquity before there was electric lights and before there was light fixtures a person lit a candle and otherwise it was dark and the candle is what illuminated the room the candle brought the light so as the Sun was setting on Friday it was the lighting of the candle that provided the honor the glory and there are three components to help like as neighbors we're not going to repeat the entire shear now but there's onek Shabbos covered Shabbos and Shalom bias we honor Shabbos we derive pleasure from Shabbos with the candles and we also create a sense of Shalom ice peace in the home if it's dark people trip people stub their toe and people curse their spouse their children why'd you leave the toy in the middle of the room why did you leave the furniture in the middle of the room social and bias when you have a little line you can see what your good doing when you could see the challenge that you're sneaking late Friday night when you could see the mesh box or I'm your Jewish press the Jewish week or Jewish action or whatever is your Friday night reading then when you can see it clearly you have Sheldon buys you a piece if you can't see and you spill you can't see you can't read you can't see your trip then you're gonna like the show and buy so we like candles for all three reasons but the truth is in our time where you have electric lights in our time where it's already light in the room what illumination are the candles offering what are the cameras contribute so this is a mock locus between the macabre in the Rama this goes back for 500 years of debate to cephus or when you add light to existing light does that enough to warrant making a bracha is that enough to fulfill the mitzvot I've had luck as Nero's based on this which we're not gonna get into in depth however modern-day postgame suggests some require or Schechter others suggest that before lighting the candles a married woman the wife normally lights the candles a single man the man lights the candles before you light the candles you turn the lights in the room off you turn them back on with the intent that you're fulfilling lighting candles then you without interruption go light the candles make the braja and have in mind that the bra is called the Brock applies both to the candles and to the electric lights as well it solves a holic dilemma to do it this way a person has to be mindful if you haven't done it this way your whole life be mindful turn all the lights off turn them back on and then you don't have to worry that your candles aren't expanding or contributing because already enough electric light the electric light itself is an expression the fulfilment of lighting the candles so to say and so you turn the lights off turn them back on with the intent of doing so to honor the Shabbos then you light the candles you make the bracha and you're good to go you've solved the ha logic dilemma but I wrote in the whatsapp group to me we saw more than just a holic dilemma to me you transform the light of the home you're no longer carrying the light of the weekday it's not the same light from Friday Thursday Wednesday Tuesday it's not the same light that you a dinner in the kitchen instead of the dining room not the same light they had certain conversations were certain clothing had certain worries felt certain incompleteness no you turn that light off you disconnect and disassociate the light from the influence from the impact from the flow of electricity that was from the weak and when you turn that light back on and you have in mind you're doing so covered Shabbos not only are you accomplishing a holic not only are you solving a hollow dilemma but you're transforming the home the illumination the light in the home litter service or the extra light in the home is now all the electric light and the candles are uniting they're partnering they're collaborating there's a synergy as they bring the light of holiness and the light of purity and the light of peace and the light of faith and the light of serenity into our home okay back to the text that we were learning which is the barek i''m which is the greater of male of Biederman on Shabbos last left off that Shabbos is even greater it's even greater then Yom Kippur certain forgiveness that you can only achieve on Shabbos you can't achieve on Yom Kippur Yom Kippur doesn't mehat there it can atone for certain things that Shabbos can atone for I thought yesterday in the first day you know what it tones for everything when you have to wear a mask on a fast day and smell your own bad breath that's takaka para that should talk of bring the Gullah I think that's enough suffering that you weren't the gula anyway so you can achieve certain things on Shabbos the Google that didn't nearly get the smile that it deserves I guess everybody else had good breath I'm a fast I am the only one who suffers in my own mask so we're not only is Shabbos higher and greater than Yom Kippur we last left off with the insider of - and I'm shits the Pharisee on a son that we are greater than angels all week long the angels are greater on a higher level than we we're struggling with temptation and desire and distraction we're struggling with the material physical world it's weighing us down and it is it is making us believe that we are physical material beings becomes Shabbos come Shabbos and minutes and I'm sure it's proof from the paw circuit in bill um come Shabbos we're greater than the angel we achieve what the angel can't our level of feeling whole and complete our level of feeling faith Rebecca shakadou share rim the great guy remember our marble Ahsan Haque awesome the power success Kesey's has been a Israel when you lift the head of B'nai Israel this is not our Pasha key Caesar this is far from our Pasha back in schmoes but the words kiss ISA when you lift the census of the Jewish people she mt sanitarium tables rosh tints of Shabbos kiss ISA as Rosh when you lift the head of the Jewish people when you lift the head you find Shabbos this takes a kedusha harem to figure out where you see Shabbos in the PASOK state and PASOK the PASOK says kiss ISA is rosh B'nai Israel when you lift the head of Benes row where in those words do you see Shabbos so says the fiduciary says the Garrideb how osios are both are ferocious rosh what are the letters after race olive shin rosh kiss isa when you lift the head the racial of shin what are the letters after rosh after the ratios of shin after the Aleph is the base after the shin is a soft Shabbos kiss ISA as Rosh when you lift the head if you successfully lift the head then that is sha missile armature before Shama so Shabbos Zoning is surely Macias Rosh Allah his aroma miss Godot levira ABBA all week long we walk around with our head down all week long were facing the earth so worried so miserable so unsure so uncertain we're looking down you can say this spiritually we're looking down you can say this even physically we're looking down physically we're looking down towards the earth because we think that our sustenance we think that our happiness we think that our health we think that it all comes from the earth we're looking down towards the earth like the name of the name of the animal walks on all for the morale says because the animal is attached to the ground to the earth the animal thinks it is a finite being material in this world the human being stands on two legs it faces and stretches stretches and it raises towards the heavens so all week long we look down but Casey says Rosh Shabbos we look up Shabbos we lift our head and Shabbos we look up as my friend Calvin says all week long we look down at our phones sure looking down looking down looking down looking down Oh Shabbos we finally look up we say what a beautiful children I didn't know this time all week long I was on my phone I have a wonderful spouse I have a beautiful home an incredible farm i beautiful delicacies oh I have my health look how much there is to notice all around me if I just lift my head up out of that for to phone if I just lift my head up out of the technology kisi says Rocha schmuck Thank You Karl Casey says Rosh if I just lift my head and one of the osios sir Roche shinbei stuff Shabbos Shabbos gives me the kawah Shabbos gives me the space the margin the strength to lift my head out of the technology lift my head out of the doldrums lift my head out of the news lift my head out of the latest data to lift my head and see the Broca's that are all around me Kisame Aria Cardinal Shabbos ma sure I've been your in matters Israel both some exceptions are commended my man has seen Ivan Luminara hater ego the area color says that every Shabbos moshe i been a descends from heaven and he puts the crowns back on our head the Gomera says and Shabbos that we came to our scene I and we got two crowns every Joe tyrosine I had two crowns one for NASA one furnish MA and plate to a girl wash em said yeah take the crowns off you don't deserve them you're not royalty you had infidelity you were disloyal to me take the crowns off you can't claim that you're the princes and princesses you're not royalty so when do we get him back in this world Marshall I've been who comes down says they re re Shabbos and he puts those crowns back on top of our head finally we can lift our head we don't have to be looking down we can look up we don't have to be brought to the ground we're not to be depressed and despondent and worried and fearful but Shabbos for 24 25 hours we put it all up on the Shelf and it'll be waiting for us when we get back when we return but for 24 25 hours he see Soroush we can finally lift our heads leave or be oh so happy my Kosovar fi McCulloh Laura hi Moscow says on this pasta cause his yard site this week remind Benatar Laura fantastic color says kissy says Roach Quixote Goren Bichette Activa zero show you keep Athena some who say y'all oughta be quiche wallahi what happens a person is feeling down depressed guilty ashamed what do they do they have a natural tendency to look down the person who's ashamed for the mistakes ashamed of their shortcoming a shame they're not realizing fulfilling their potential ashamed of the opportunities they wasted and squandered the person who feels guilty and ashamed they tend to look down and what do we say to them keep your chin up what do you want to say what do you say to somebody who you want to lift their spirits who you want to tell them you got this you can come back you're not down and out the best is yet to come what's the language we use what do we use what does the coach say Ben Isaac's you say keep your chin up you got this you got this so all week when we look down were ashamed we feel guilty we have a sense of Boetsch us you rearrange those letters and you get Shabbos an air of Shabbos you make amends you fast-fish were massive your thoughts are them part of the other Baraka we don't just wash our head and our hands and our feet physically but metaphysically we wash ourselves we cleanse ourselves we purify ourselves we work out we reconcile we apologize we make amends we ask for forgiveness and we forgive so instead of carrying Boscia shame into Shabbos we have a sense of Chavez's as they are hi McIntosh Casey says Rosh all week long we look down and Shabbos comes in Shaba says keep your chin up Shabbos says you got this keep your chin up it's gonna get better there's our Shem to trust be whole and complete me and all the mob it's a taste of the world to come this meaning this purpose this order to the universe between us I can ocean is here oh sure my sorrows are a tha's iconic autoshow narco dish well her direction mmm your dare you of banana in a mile of a rocker my ex is Matt Lauritz I wish I was coders oh oh you who didn't you see us rose crap a mullah all week long we walk around like an animal we may be standing on two legs but we act like we're on all four we fresh and we eat we gossip and we slander and we look and we surf the web that we do and we go all week long we're like an animal and animal impulse an animal instinct and animal desire we're struggling with not being animalistic come Shabbos and we can transcend come Shabbos and we can rise above being that animal come Shabbos Kesey's rosh we lift our head we reaffirm our humanity our godliness we make contact with the best of us we're no longer walking on for were walking on - we rise up I wish I had my my rough Hamish here and safer and safer Bamidbar but I have it insured but the rub on this week's parsha and this week's partial I believe the rough quotes the story of yong-chol in the porter may have told it before in this context he tells the story uncle the port of the rubber base to salivate check I was in Warsaw and in Warsaw there was a shul every block and there was a much it's stable that he would Davin in and he came shallow shoeless and they just kept singing askew sued us mismo Dovid you did nefesh correct so over and over and over so he turns to this cross it's hidden there's much the husband he said no what time is Madoff who that Maariv already knew Shabbos almost over I think I share with you recently the debate on the after manana min my block should davon 7:00 minutes before half-dollar time so Punk'd we can and Maariv right and Abdullah and take out our technology and get back to the week I said you think the news is so great the longer you could go without finding out what's going on the better off you are you're in such a rush to find out what's going on let's not delve in more until this man have della maybe a few minutes after his man Abdullah low ash tickle to sefa Shabbos wouldn't kill anybody a little more peace around who wants the symphony and whoever wants to sing for the end the schlep it a little bit longer a little bit longer don't make it an end you want to save her at the finest and the best the most delicious the most rich experiences and things we want to say we want to go a little bit longer so the Rob turns to yong-chol and he says he didn't OD ankle he says no one is Mara Vianca says don't you recognize me the Rob's a young man a boy says who you says it's me uncle the Porter and the Rob describes that all week long he saw this young CO and he was schlepping pails of water and he was all indigent poor and struggling and he a tattered clothing he was a poor man and here he sees this regal man and he says Janka was wearing a beca sure that had more holes in it than it had fabric that was the beca shah and yet he looked like royalty he looked like a king of prince he didn't recognize him Anyanka said to him wedding in such a rush and he says isn't Shabbos Thomas over and Janka said to him words that he never forgotten transforms his observance of shams from then on and mine ever since I read it from the rough and he turned to the rough and he said do you love the weekday so much that you can't wait for Shabbos to end do you love your weekday so much that you can't wait for Shabbos to end Casey says Rosh do you can't wait to hang your head again you can't wait to look down again you can't wait to open the technology you can't wait to find out the news you can't wait to have the worries and the concerns and the anxieties again the pressures in the competition again do you love the weekday so much that you can't wait for Shabbos to end Kisa is Rosh Shabbos gives us the ability to lift our head turn the light off and back on and turn it back on the cup of Chavez don't just solve the hallo dilemma of two sofas or how am i candle lighting contribute to the electric illumination turn it off and turn it back on and transform your home you say what's the difference it was lit and it's lit again what's the difference the answer is you need to become lit you need to become on fire you need to illuminate you need to put on your Shabbos punim you need to disconnect from the weekday and all that it stands for and represents and tap into and turn on Shabbos and all of that represents because please God it'll bring the redemption that we all crave wishing everyone a happy healthy and a holy Shabbos until next Friday have a great Shabbos and a great week