Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #22 - Shabbos is Connection Time

okay good heir of shabbos our holy arab shabbos yiddan it's great to be together again on a friday as we transition from the weekday into the shabbos this is a weekday that is filled if you live in boca raton in palm beach county with a concern of course for this weekend and what will be potential hurricane coming our way we dabbing for all those who are in boca and south florida anyone who's in the path of this hurricane of course should be spared have peace and have tranquility i want to thank our sponsors turn friday into er shabbos my thank you so much for your generosity two thoughts for today and of course the great question is asked what makes this shabbat shabbas nacho and now we know it's the words of the of torah we begin to shiv shiva dinah to the seven half torahs of consolation if you haven't listened to the shlomo's name then you have to sometime before shabbos friday shabbos so of course the navi prophesizes and promises us you're going to have comfort and consolation and the age-old question we asked it in the video earlier today we're going to give a different answer is what do you mean nothing's different yesterday literally we were sitting on the floor and we went through the crusades in the holocaust the destruction of tupac the murder of millions of people we talked about the masses we talked about the kohanim and we talked about the individuals and others righteous giants who were lost 2 000 years ago and the giants who were lost over the last four months so what do you mean what is different what is different we said last week in the name of uh remember of betapsk that illustration if we would just observe two shabboses we would be redeemed khazon and shabbas nach zone was last week we felt that last hug from hashem before we split before we departed for 25 hours but what is the avodah what is the effort what are we meant to take from shabbos nachman what's the energy of shabbos says you know where the hama is because it's shabbos because it's shabbos you're right you look around the world is still the same coronavirus covet and parts of the world are still spiking we're still distancing we're still concerned we still don't know what's going to be we still can't celebrate simcas the way we want in all the richness and their fullness you look at the warnings and there's a hurricane that's coming to our shores if you look around at this world there's still people struggling for parnassa and for shidduchim and for fertility and for all kinds of things the world is still filled with so much challenges what could be so much pain and suffering so you know where the nahami is nothing's different then is shabbos when shabbos comes that's a break a place of refuge near miklot 25 hours 25 hours we can shut down we can disconnect 25 hours we put all of our troubles up on the shelf 25 hours the book ends of fire of the candle of the new shabbos and the havdallah that are the bookends that allow us for 25 hours to escape to elevate to enrich 25 hours to taste made alma 25 hours to put all of our worries and our challenges away and to be able to go to a place of mainland instead of 13 requests in the middle of the amidah three at the beginning of of praise three at the end of hoda and normally thirteen things i need ancient with divine inspiration authored atfila that would for all time in all places capture what are the universal man's needs all the things that we could need and justice and refuga and parnassa and shemakolenu for anything that doesn't fit the others shabbos we replace the 13 requests in the middle there's no bakasha there are no requests applications i have no needs but rather on chambers there's one mikadesh hashabas and that brings a total of seven seven as a number that is whole that is complete because in shambles i feel whole and complete shabbos i have no needs or wants shabbos is a taste of olam a place of perfection of peace of serenity a place of certainty in a place of confidence and i immerse myself in shambas we go into shabbos and we find a respite we find a refuge and therefore suggested i'm sure that you're right right before candlelight and you look around at this world one last look at the news and you say nothing's different than the way it was when we were sitting on the floor tisha buff but the moment you light those candles the moment you say kiddush the moment you say bowie kala boy then all of a sudden it's shabbos and everything is perfect and everything is right and everything is okay now it's not that we're not realists we're not fantasizing we're not living in a world of make-believe we know that those problems and challenges will be there waiting for us for those who potentially face a hurricane it could show them hit towards the end of shabbos you can't be you can't be a negligent and you can't bury your head in the sand we're realists we know what it is but for 25 hours we're given the gift the spice of shabbos the ability to elevate ourselves with abradovar not to speak about the burkha not to talk about the type of things that we talk about during the week but rather only to talk about the things of shabbos things that elevate and rich things that lift our spirits things that light us on fire things that give us muhammad that give us comfort and consolation shabbos shabbos is what gives us shabbas gives us comfort from the challenges of the week that was number one number two i want to just share with you by saliva in uh this appears in the o you of the rav and the uh has a little entry from the rav that comes from hare kedam with mikhail shurkin his talmud from torosmosha and hare kedam records this inside of the rove yes in the safe are they translated here into english apache of course has the repetition of the assailability first appears in parties israel and is repeated in parties of as far as mushroom reviews the milestones the major events of history of course he reviews the milestone of matantora kabala satoru zakat hashanah remember that you were a slave in the land of egypt that hashem took us out of there it is invoked in the fourth commandment in our parasha but in the assassins earlier in israel it does not say shabbos commemorates having left egypt what is it commemorates there masa boracious creation shabbos is a dual theme it is the theme of creation and celebrates the theme of liberation of being freed and we invoke both reflecting both these teams the kiddush recited on friday night says and they call it it's both it's both we testify to the creation of the world we say via hulu tonight we say by hulu tonight we tell everyone look around this world you see it's an artist who painted this painting but he didn't sign it we'll sign it for him we affirm who the painter who the designer who the architect who the author is we write his name and we become a partner with him when we testify that he created the whole world how does that shabbos give testimony to his having created the world because we don't need to control and manipulate and conquer the world we're not trying to control nature it's his hashem created the whole world we're stewards of it and he's deported us deposited us in this world to safeguard and to safe keep it and also to conquer it to learn how to control it but the way that we testify that we know that really it's his is one day a week we sit back we're passive and we give it back to him one day a week we let nature take its course and we tell nature we're not trying to control you we're not trying to manipulate you there's a dual thing that underlies the restitution of kiddush the one and writes the raw hashem self-sanctified shadows through having arrested on the seventh day and for this reason kirish on friday night initiates with the verses of hashem rested on the seventh day and it concludes with the kadesh hashabas he sanctifies shabbos hashem himself sanctified it by his having rested by his having completed the work he sanctified the seventh day but in consciousness hashem himself vested holiness into shabbos it is the jewish people who sanctify yanthaf and the yom narayan with the establishment of every new month that's why shabbos that middle bracha that brings it to seven is makadesh hashabas whereas makadesh first hashem is us and he gave us the tools he gave us the instruments to be able to sanctify the months and to be able to sanctify the yamantovan for this reason the central blessing is mekadish there's an anomalous passage in the top of your shell 10th peric which states that the concluding bracha should in fact be phrased who sanctifies makadashi yamashabas we don't say that none of us say that none of us have the minute of saying that kadesh israel the hashabas we just say the kaddish hashabas but there's a yerusham with you entertains an opinion that says it's mekadeshi how could that be how could that be how could that be so we have to conclude that with regard to the shabbat says there are there's a dual sanctification hashem and man sanctify shabbos in partnership and for this reason we invoke both creation and atheism and time and kiddush shabbos was sanctified by shema creation at the same time we too sanctify shabbos after eating the trying both shabbos and the festivals are sanctified by israel only in light of the dual sanctification can we understand there's a how we alluded to it before we studied it in this context called shabbos we head on to shabbos we don't wait for shabbas to come to us we go greet it when you're excited about something the husband comes out from under the hoop but goes to get his kala when you're excited to greet someone to your home a dignitary a russia shiva tama a member of the family you haven't seen in a long time you don't wait for the coming you run out to greet them we don't wait for the sun to set and shabbos to descend upon us we run out to greet her it's called shabbos how do you fulfill tosafeshaba's women like candles at least 18 minutes before shikiya 18 minutes of extra shabbos of human sanctified shabbos of proactive having created and transformed from whole to shabbos men men say kabbalah shabbas and shul and at some point before the sun goes down different opinions which part of kabbalah shabbas or even beforehand if there's no time if you're going to end minha shortly before shabbos one should verbalize one should articulate minimally one should think in their head i'm hereby accepting shabbos there's a notion of shabbos to sufficient now is not the time or place how to suffer shabbas works so just the israel malacha is it the kedusha's man how exactly does it work but tosafeshames makes a chaves if i accept shabbos early i can accept shabbos as early as plague some are accepting shabbos just a few minutes from now even though the sun won't set yet for a while and when they accept shabbos they accept shabbos there's no backseas there's no turning back you can't just do that last one thing you can't just go back on your phone you can't undo what you've done if you accept shabbos hashem says no backsies because our transformation of the weekday into shabbos is as binding as shabbos itself it brings the holiness and the responsibility and the obligation and the restrictions of shambas itself it's called to sephishabas it's what we contribute where does that idea come from what empowers or gives man license to turn the weak day into shabbos to expand or extend shabbos beyond the designated time of sunset to say on mote shabbas says rabbi salavechik it's this year xiaomi it's these two is the component which is passive the sun sets hashem is the one who creates shabbos but there is also the active component of the hashabas the yerushalmi there's also the idea of tosafeshabas not just something that passively happens to us but something that we create if there's no real role for man in the sanctification of the day there would be no ability for one to extend shabbos we recite kiddush and chavez we contribute to the sanctity of the day as a convocation of holiness kiddush infuses the day with an element of holiness that is missing until these words are recited even after shabbos itself begins even when sun sets you know what we're bound by is 39 acts of creative labor you can't do no plowing or planting no harvesting no grinding no winnowing no threshing no kneading no baking no tanning no riding no cutting all the 39 malachas we are forbidden to do when the sun sets we're bound by them ready or not here it comes but the additional layer of sanctification the holiness of shabs the serenity the peace the shabbos the the consolation the comfort of shabbos that requires us to contribute that's our partnership that's our part that's the kiddush that we recite that kiddush transforms it one can use the same rationale to explain the insistence that one should make kiddush immediately upon returning from show friday night says don't wait don't wait we haven't unfortunately been able to visit one another's homes during this horrific time of social distancing or physical distancing but when we can eat in each other's home is one of my pet peeves or the people invite you over and friday night you go to the couch instead of the dining room table you schmooze for an hour instead of starting shalom aleichem a person should go to the table you gotta start kiddish you start kiddish as soon as you can according to the show it's not permitted for man to delay imparting you did additional holiness why because it's not yet fully shabbos hashem is waiting for your partnership waiting for your contribution waiting for what you have to add waiting for you to contribute your voice waiting for you to contribute your words to say kiddish and to be makadish get to the table start kiddish and then you can have all the conversation you want over the table don't wait don't delay don't interrupt between when the sun sets and hashems and the kiddush will recite the makkah shabbas our shabbos it's like we recite our vows we have to make our pledge and promise we have to express our affection and and uh and commitment and we transform shabbos in ways that shabbos doesn't happen on its own so wishing everyone a shabbos which is that all those who are in this hurricane's path should be safe and secure as he has so many times before blow a breath a gust of wind and drive it out to sea spare all in its path should be a shabbos of nachamu that whatever one is facing to escape in the serenity the refuge in the peace of shabbos of 25 hours of disconnection and connection to what matters most to fulfill not only the shabbos that is upon us we too should add our voice to shabbos to come out on the other side not only more well rested but to come out more inspired wishing everyone a haila geshamas a holy a happy and a healthy shabbos