Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #23 - Shabbos Gives Nechama

everyone our holy arabic jews thanks for coming together again in order to prepare for shabbos together to turn friday into not friday to turn friday into arab shabbos it's wonderful to be together again i want to thank my dear friends mandy and super fisherman who sponsored the turn friday into arab shabbos series as this host in the merit of higher ef fredo thank you so much for your generosity we're going to go back to the text we had been studying before and we'll compliment it with some other thoughts today quickly but attacks from rave birmingham and zmiros and anshabas and here he has a chapter he has an essay on the concept of preparing for shabbos getting ready for shabbos anything that is holy requires has mana requires hana requires preparation insider snippets were up to borghum and we're up to exactly this thought the zora cutter says the reason that the invites the community you're about to say you're about to get to the shimona esre you're about to get to the core the central part of davening barcode is an invitation is a preparation one has to not simply stumble in you can't collapse in you have to come in prepared you have to come in excited you have to come in invigorated you have to come and rest that you have to come in ready also he says the influence the bracha the kedusha the sanctity of this great gift of shabbas that hashem has given us the rest of the world is stumbling and tripling all over tripping all over their technology the noise the interruption the static in their lives we have this gift we disconnect we reconnect to what matters shabbos it gives us not only the physical rest for the whole week it gives us the spiritual nourishment of the whole week but in order to achieve it you have to be ready for it you have to put in the work sh you have to cleanse yourself you have to prepare yourself you have to get ready if you don't have a dvarator if you don't have a story if you're not ready to sing this mirrors if you haven't shopped and cooked and prepared and set the table then you have no shabbos you can't wake up one minute before shabbos and decide you're gonna have shabbos it's only going to be in proportion to the effort of the preparation you put in before commercial darshan it's like the rabbis interpret the past like you have to remove the rust you have to remove the dirt you know you're taking a clear utensil a vessel to the mikvah marcaillon nickel reopened but we asked everybody take the stickers off at home undo the packaging at home we're trying to limit the overlap between people everyone has had the toefl caleb the young couple who as a gift for all the gifts they got they have to pack the trunk and schlep everything to the caleb mikvah you got to take off all the packages you gotta peel off all the stickers it's a big deal you can't cash for something that has rust on it if it's covered in rust it can't be cautioned so similarly our heart which was pure just last shabbos our heart that sang our heart that felt our heart that was open our heart that connected but all of a sudden mozai shabbas came we made abdullah with it we turned on our technology and we reconnected to the schmutz and the naresh kite we reconnected to the worries and the challenges and the anxieties we reconnected to the pressures and the noise that surround us and all of a sudden they become the rust the contaminant they become the dirt they become the sticky stuff that is covering our heart so what's the hacha what is the effort the gold the avodah of arashabas to peel off the sticky stuff to get rid of the rust to unpackage the packaging so when a person has an eye and an emphasis on shabbos not just shabbos you can't wake up shabbos here is eight o'clock 7 58 you can't decide uh what are we gonna eat well what are we gonna wear who's setting the table it directly relates to how early in the week you said okay what's the menu what are we making the shabbos who's doing the shopping how we setting the table what's the plan what's mira so we sing what divritora are we saying what stories will we share what board games will we play what is the effort that went in because otherwise the whole week layers and layers and layers cover the pure heart that we revealed last shabbos and we have to do all of it again and that's what says this fast that's what shabbis is the hammer the arab shabbos they're preparing getting ready ramos said there seems to be a contradiction on the one hand it's a great gift now when you get a great gift what do you have to do for it it's called a gift because you didn't have to earn it if you earned it it'd be called a paycheck it'd be called salary or compensation it's called the gift because you didn't work for it so on the one hand shabbos the gift hashem gave us this unbelievable gift what a gift shabbos on the other hand the gemara navadazar says only if you work hard in air of shabbos shop cook clean set the table you get ready on arab shabbos do you enjoy shabbat so which is it is it a matanoto is it a gift does it take work and labor and effort and toil which is it so instead of the following answer shabbas itself is the greatest gift it's an unbelievable gift but there are barriers there are interruptions we have this rust we have these layers we have this stickiness and it doesn't enable us to attach ourselves or to connect the shabs so the matanatova the gift that comes to us that's from hashem but we've got to make the effort we've got to do what we need to do in order to prepare ourselves so that the shabbos can be fully experienced somebody says to you i want to give you a big check i want to wire you some money i want to give you a big gift you have to have a bank account if you don't have a venmo you don't have a bank account you have no address for them to deposit it someone could want to give you the biggest gift in the world or there's nowhere to put it you can't receive the gift so the gift meets our meshambus shabbos is this gift it's a gift that's uniquely ours it's a gift that a kurdish borough who set aside for us the rest of the world doesn't have it they don't experience it they might make the same recipe it doesn't taste the same because they don't have the spice that's called shabbos we have shabbos it's a gift from above it's unbelievable it's re-energizing and reinvigorating it refreshes it lets us reinvent ourselves to rebirth shabbos is unbelievable what a gift from hashem it's a gift kirschbach says i want to wire you some rukhni is called shabbas but you need to make the bank account you need to have the address you need to have a place to deposit it that's arab shabbos that's the arab shabbas that we go through so what is this who says we know the following a non-jew who tries to observe shabbos is liable for the death penalty the most severe punishment shabbos wasn't gifted to the non-jew it's uniquely jewish it's exclusively ours so the non-jew tries to observe shabbos death penalty that's how severe it is that's how severe it is there's a great shiloh i think i saw khashoggi of silverstream several years ago he says a conversion candidate so we tell the conversion candidates until you actually convert you have to do something to violate child it's very hard for some of them they're well on their way on their journey they're living essentially observant lives they're very moved very inspired as hazal already note sometimes more passionately more loyally more devotion and dedication even than people who are born jewish even people who are observant their whole lives so when you tell the non-jew you tell the conversion candidate you got to do something every shabbos everyone knows the bad joke about the guy who says i don't hold of the aero does that count but you got to do something to violate shabbos every week so he had the following question of there was a doctor who had to work in the hospital on shabbos so he wants to know when a doctor works on chavez drives there rights operates the machines is that considered does that constitute violating shabbos in order to take him out of the category of goesha of a non-jew keep shabbos or do you say no for the purpose of saving a life not only are you allowed you're obligated to violate chiba so that's not called violating shabbos if you want to appreciate the alumnus it comes down to whether it's how do we understand the notion that when someone is involved in life-saving measures they don't keep shabbas this is so good observe shabbos they're going they're violating the boundary of our space that's ours that's our unique gift so said you know what the mission of the arab shabbas is to take the out of us to make sure that we're a yid we're a jew through and through that doesn't mean that we don't engage the world contribute to the world draw the beauty from the world we believe in that integration but at the end of the day what shapes our values and our ideals and our philosophy what shapes our priorities what is the filter through which we look at the world interpret current events shape our thinking and our voting we have to be a year you have to be a jew through and through so says you know what the effort of shabbos is it is to purge or to cleanse to remove the the non-jewish element the non-jewish music non-jewish images non-jewish ideas non-jewish values to purge to cleanse to be able to remove them so that we're not violating gaisha shavas but his gayer we undergo a conversion every era of shabbos we convert we try to convert our entire sense of selves that when we go into shabbos we're not looking at what kind of car we're not looking at how much money we're not looking at we're not looking at the ideals and the values the priorities we're thinking exclusively we're thinking entirely like jews really the whole week one portion fell around shabba's two portions of the man fell the kitchen what does it mean that we are sanctified we're elevated with the gift of man we don't have the man anymore none of us have the benefit of man we don't have the money relevant to arabasha our partial tells the story of the mon someone told me a great thing this week they said where was the midbar in the midbar we lived the call of life we had everything hashem provided everything he gave us security and protection he gave us food he gave us drink he gave us everything he compensated us took care of us sustained us so how did someone decress it for someone else so they said that's what i was told i think they thought it was a joke but i take it very seriously they said you know what the hesad was never a person was going to eat the man the man tasted like anything you thought of so nebuchad that person thought of a milk meal the rest it was you said no no no think about flakes think about a steak think about a roast think about a pastrami think about a corned beef think about a meat pizza that was the khasid is that you help someone think about something even more delicious when they ate the man so he asked the rabbit islam rabbit asks what do you mean what the kitchen what sanctified is what blessed us it tasted like anything you wanted were you allowed to think of a cheeseburger were you allowed to think of bastard olive were you allowed to think of khazer tasted like anything you wanted so when you ate the bench on the man it's big discussions in halaquah talks about the bench on the man so the morning says the man tasted like anything that you wanted shabbos can taste like anything you want the words like the man just like you ate the man but it tasted like whatever you were thinking about so to you can keep shabbos you can observe the 39 categories of creative labor you could refrain from doing malachi and shabbos but what it tastes like what is what it's feeling is that all depends on us what are you going to talk about heavily stock market your portfolio business deals where you're going to talk about divertora and lofty things beautiful ideas and people stories of of righteousness it's just like the man tasted like anything similarly shabbos tastes like anything i'll close with one last thought i showed it out of shell of brachas this week a beautiful thought the apostle parachute says hashem tested us in the midbar there was a test and the apostle tells us one of the tests was he provided them on the question was what was the test of the month to have a paycheck provided for you didn't even have to work that's a test halawai it's a test many would ask for what was the test many many answers are given says there were no reserves all you got was for that day you had to believe that tomorrow you were going to get what you needed for the next day and the ramban says they had no experience it wasn't approved and they know it wasn't poisonous but they ate them on they trusted hashem but gives another interpretation he says you know what the test of the man was the test of the month was the first time it fell it was a miracle supernatural extraordinary you couldn't believe it literally mana from heaven bred from heaven you won the lottery but by day two three week two three ah took it for granted by week two three it didn't impress you maybe kaiser even got sick of the man so it starts off as a beautiful blessing what starts off that you recognize and acknowledge as extraordinary becomes ordinary which starts off as supernatural becomes natural and explains availability madrish the major says in this past in the yakut shimoni mekan from the passage that hashem tested us with the man you see you light the shabbos what does one thing have to do with the other light in the shadows candles and the test of would you take the man for granted says what's the purpose of the shabbos candles we're about to light the candles when you light the candles you illuminate your home you bring shalom by his peace into the home says you know what happens when you light those candles you look around that home and you see the blessings all the things you were taking for granted just like the man you have a roof you have home you have your health you see my shale you should have a food slam i feel better until you don't have your health you take it for granted if you look around you light those candles and you say hey i have my health for hashem i have family people should be blessed that beautiful families nachas and simcha from their family you have somebody went shopping someone cooked the food someone set the table someone got the house ready don't take it for granted don't neglect it acknowledge it identify it say thank you for it the test of the man was would you take it for granted and the test of our lives is do we take that bracha for granted so i bless you and may all of us we should be zoha to peel off the rust of our heart to peel off the layers that have covered our heart since last shabbos we should be our heart should pound in our chest we should pulsate with the spirituality with the rookness with the gift with the flavor of shabbos to connect hashem and to connect to ourselves and to connect to the people whom god forbid we take for granted we should light that candle and illuminate our homes and see the brachas that we have all around wishing everyone a happy and a healthy and a holy shabbos hashem next week we should see you from your home have a wonderful shabbos everybody