Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #21 - Be on Fire for Shabbos

i get an arab shabbos my holy brothers and sisters are shabbos jews who come together today what a gift joey nukem brought us up thank you hashem for joey tuning in and singing with us for a minute before we begin maybe we can make that a weekly a weekly thing i want to thank our sponsors mandy and atsibara fishman for their generosity dear friends in this ghost of fradal i should have a great host they should have a great host for their wonderful generosity friendship and support on this area of shabbos khazon heir of shabbos parish is dvaram we begin the fifth and final book of the torah i want to share with you a torah of the tongareba this is a torah of the tone of the current tongareba and it's very very beautiful i found it very transformative to get us ready for this shabbat shabbat zone on the one hand there's a lot of sadness here we entered the shabbos and many have not showered or showered as often as frequently or as fully as they have during normal times it's the nine days we enter the shabbos and we haven't trimmed we haven't had a haircut we haven't shaved we haven't listened to music that lifts and opens our soul and our spirit shazo is the shabbos proceeding to shabba and on the one hand it's a downer it brings us down but on the other hand we've shared in several contexts this week that chavez khazone is also a very welcome and beautiful opportunity alexander that before one a parent says goodbye to a child they give a big hug and the shabbos khazone is a shabbos goddle it's a great shabbos the ribonuclear is giving us a hug he's giving us an embrace he's pulling us even tighter before he has to say goodbye for a little bit because we need to be treated with some tough love before we reunite and reconcile before we come back it's a very very holy shabbos and as much as it is a mellow shop it said shabbat shabbas is an oasis in the desert of mourning in the desert of grief in the desert of sadness comes shabbos a taste of olam haba even though one is not allowed to shower for pleasure joy when it's not allowed to shower other than for absolute necessity and hygiene during the nine days but nevertheless shabbos comes the chavez shabbos a person showers we we wash off the physical dirt and we wash off the metaphysical negativity and we get ready we uplift for shabbos i want to share with you this beautiful beautiful torah of the tol nareba and i hope it will have an impact on you as it has for me in order to get ready together for this beautiful shabbos to be able to not feel a downer but feel instead the opposite that we're being elevated or being enriched in time for shabbos he says the following the gemara and shabbos and tests many many reasons are given for the quran based on why did god withdraw his divine countenance why did he withdraw his intense presence why did he leave us so longing to be able to connect to identify and to feel his love is embrace his guidance why what did we do wrong you know we're very clear in emphasizing that any generation in which the base of makdash has not been rebuilt it means if it existed it would have been destroyed today we are unworthy it's not just that we're mourning something from long ago we're mourning that the same reason it was destroyed then exists now and so it's a time of introspection and self-reflection a time to ask ourselves what did we do wrong and where did we go wrong so we can correct it and we can finally bring back the mashiach bring back the basa mikdash bring back that intense intimacy and connection with him so many reasons are given and we all know them the big three were violated murder idolatry promiscuity we know senescrian on baseless hatred we spoke earlier this week about baseless hatred that you have to love even those you don't like well many many reasons which are offered of why the bash was destroyed that we learned torah but we didn't give it the right context we didn't make the bracha torah first many reasons are given but you likely did not hear the following reason it said in the name of the great sage you was destroyed because shabbos was neglected shabbos was taken for granted shabbos wasn't properly honored and celebrated so what does that mean it means the generation of the basal mig-dash this holy earlier generation in time they violated the llama test what were they doing plowing and planting and winnowing and kneading and baking and separating they were violating the llama tesla the 39 categories of creative labor can't be it can't be the earlier ones were much more pious than we so what does it mean what does it mean they desecrated they turned the shabbos whole and it quotes apostles they covered they closed they withdrew their eyes and god was desecrated among them what does that mean they violated the neglected shabbos it can't mean they neglected the actual laws they were cooking they were barbecuing they were baking they were driving they were playing music what does it mean they violated shabbos it's interesting to note it says the talmud that the one who said this reason among all the reasons that are offered the one who emphasized this one is abaye and the tone the rabbit posits he says that each of the reasons are offered for why the best amitabhas were destroyed is a reflection of the shoresh haneshama of the one who offered that reason the one who offered the reason of satisfying them is because in their core they're so bothered to look around and see cena baseless hatred and the one who offered the reason of the big three it's because in their core they have such loyalty and dedication to the victory so abbay clearly had such a connection with shabbos and indeed the gemaran tightness and the base tells us that every air of shabba is a basketball a heavenly voice would go out and a heavenly voice would welcome and greet abbaye abbaye had a very special connection to shabbos his show roshan ashama the root the core of his being he became enriched and elevated shabbos made him come alive chavez made him become on fire and he took that fire and he used its spark to light the fire of others so abbaye who was so connected with and so celebrated shabbos that the martinez says this boss call would welcome abaya to shabbat shabbas to abbaye abbay is the one who looks around and says you know why the bash has not been rebuilt you know why it was destroyed because shabbos was neglected what does that mean shabbos was neglected so the tone the rabbit wants to suggest based on a major alcoc listen to the measures says the major alcoholic iso says the medrash one of the fundamental aspects one of the core energies and themes and reasons of shabbos is the time a family spends together the emphasis on the family unit and if the person is alone and longs to be married first of all we bless you you should find your bashar you should find happiness and you should be able to build the family you long for but if a person is alone their family means their neighbors it means their nieces and nephews it means the community it means whomever they are with and shabbos is a time to connect to bond to build bridges to talk to laugh to sing to play to share divrei torah shabbas is a time that we withdraw from ourselves and we connect with others six days a week we work we conquer the world six days a week we build our name our reputation we amass we accumulate things we make more money six days a week we conquer the world in the seventh day misrats and bonaven bene beso on the seventh day we connect with our family and we connect with the people around us that is one of the core themes one of the core essences of shabbos it's an element of shabbos to be able to connect abbaya understood when he looked around and blamed the neglect of shabbos as the tondareba what he means is just like the gemara says what does it mean they didn't make a rock on torah first they didn't say birha satora everybody knows you wake up in the morning you say because everybody knows people that don't learn torah say birka satora as part wrote as part of the birkha in the morning we all learn torah because of the mission of the gemara we say right after the birkha satora but what does it mean they didn't say birha satora it means they learn torah but the rana nadaram explains it means they misplaced the reason for the learning the learning became a weapon with which to judge a weapon with which to wage war with others a weapon with which to feel superior and they failed to realize that the goal the purpose of of torah is in fact to humble and to build bridges and to connect with others so similarly here says the tone but what does it mean why you shallam why you shall i'm destroyed because they neglect the chapters it doesn't mean they neglected the laws of shabbos you know what it means they neglected to use shabbos to connect with others they neglected to use shabbos to build and to elevate and to enrich relationships and connections to host others to drop off things for people to connect with people they didn't they didn't use shabbos properly and who is the they says the tone of he says that i don't know if i could he says the gedole hador just like the tamid who learned torah but failed to say the birha satora so to the gdollar israel who observed shabbos but neglected to observe the purpose and the ultimate goal of shabbos so if a person spends all shabbos immersed only in themselves only even in their own noble activity of learning or hopping the schluff to recover all the lack of sleep during the week shabbos is not a time to be narcissistic and selfish even spiritually selfish to immerse yourself in only your own learning shabbos is the time to connect to build bridges to elevate to enrich to inspire all the people around us and that's what it means you know why the best has not been rebuilt because we go through the motions whether we go through the article series the rabbi ribiat series or we take the smith series whatever serious we are observing the minutia we are vigilant and vigilant in the diligent in the details of the laws of shabbos but what about the essence of shabbos what about the soul of shabbos what about the spirit of shabbos what about the smells and the flavor and the tastes of shabbos what about the memories that we're creating for our children and our family and our neighbors with shabbos it's not enough though of course it's critically important to be aware of an observant of the laws of shabbos but what about the essence the goal the theme the time the chambers are supposed to mean and transform that shabbos is supposed to protect the child is supposed to revive the shabbos is supposed to strengthen us to get through whatever exile whatever is that we're facing the gospel semester says our parsha when the passage says rav that we stated you stayed there just as shabbos prepares a person spiritually and gives us the strength to get through the next week spiritually it gets us ready it recalibrates our compass and our priorities it gives us the energy and the inner fulfillment and satisfaction so to rav chevis the time that we spent at har sinai it was like shabbos harsina i got us ready to go in territory all the way shabbos gets us ready to go through the week but says the helicopter says the great gerard don't read it rav chevas that great for us was chavez was staying there says that sam is reading how great was shabbos that you had at har sinai how great is shabbos that even when you're on nine days and even when you're in a period of kuru but and even when you're trying to get through this period of devastation and destruction tap into shabbos grab on to shabbos because shabbos you can shower and shabbos you can put on your shabbos clothing and shabbos you could eat meat shabbas you can be uplifted and enriched with some delicious wine and shabbos is always shabbos it's a taste of the world to come and so when this world is filled with bad news and this world is filled with devastation and destruction and this world is filled with grief and mourning where do we immerse ourselves in shabbos a taste of that world to come not rav but it says that the rabbi radamsk he extends this void and he says our passion that god spoke to us but says the radamskar don't read it meaning from the root of the word hashem speaks to us do you know where god speaks to us when we're in the nine days when we're going through a tough time when we're sitting low to the ground when we feel knocked down and stepped on when we feel that we have no hope when we feel that we have no help rav allah shabbas immerse yourself in shabbas and rediscover hashem sing this miros and learn the torah and laugh and connect with others hashem okay elenu god speaks to us wherever we are are when we're on high and one where bahrain when we're in a low we can't afford to neglect shabbos not only its detailed laws but its themes and its essence to spend time to connect to revive our very neshama like abbaya taurus like was the showrush of his nishama to be able to have a taste of the world to come a taste of me the tavlin of shabbos we spoke about the gemara the flavor the spice that gets added to all of our food called shabbos you can't buy it in the supermarket you can't order it on amazon it's what we bring to shabbos and so my arab dear friends brothers and sisters let us heed the message of abbaye and the way that we'll avoid sitting on the floor this tish above and before then bring the mashiach and the geulah is this shabbos i've said many times this week already that the grebel the great uh mendel of the tabs said when the gemara says if only we observe two shabboses we'd have a goola it's shabbos khazonen and shabbas next week singles weekends and concerts and music and fun and hotels at least in a normal year that's so important to observe yeah feel the hug feel that alexander rebecca's hug from hashem before he says goodbye he gives a big prolonged hug a big kiss and a big telling us he loves us immerse ourselves immerse ourselves in shabbos and here hashem speak to us even in the period of khurban enjoy the shabba stay happy stay healthy and stay holy