Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #233 - A New Vocabulary for Shabbos

Are you [Music] [Applause] [Music] good? >> Today may feel like Friday. Probably doesn't feel like Friday. The crazy schedule we've been on. But it's not Friday. In fact, it is shabas. And there are those who yet again coming off of y. We barely had any breathing any week any. And right away it's shabas. It's shabas. And there's nothing greater. There's nothing better. Because if you see shabas as the para hashem blessed the seventh day, who would want more blessing? Would you ever say I have enough money, enough hold back? No. You'd say more and more and more. So more y more shabas. More yant more shabas. It's so great to have another Shabbah Shabas, the Maka, the source of all. And so we here to turn our Friday into Shabas. So few days of the week this week all we had was Thursday and Friday, but all we had was Thursday because by Friday today is already shabas. I want to thank our turn Friday shabas sponsors my dear friends Mendy and Fredel in memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Zach. This week's turn Friday into Shabas is sponsored by Shua and Amanda Pransky as a thank you to Booker Tone Synagogue and we are so grateful for your support. So I want to share with you a beautiful beautiful teaching of the Torah on this week's parad. The Torah was written by Abraham Sabah who lived 1440 to 1508. lived in Castile and he was chased the expulsion from Spain and he fled and he found refuge in Portugal until he was chased out of Portugal and spent so much life he fled to Lisbon and he was constantly on the run finally to Morocco. What a difficult life. So we can appreciate when a person is spending their whole life on the run. Where do you find the ultimate refuge and serenity? You find peace in the hila in the holy shabas. So this week's para this week's para by the way this shabas is not only known by the para next week will be shabas paras but this week is shabas not shabas paras it's shabas borious and the commentaries explain why because after the long yontiff season filled with promises and pledges and ups and downs and filled with disruption to our routine we're back we're ready this is it this is our first real shabas this says shabas bracious. It's new beginning, fresh slate. It's an opportunity to put into practice everything that we've been promising and we've been pledging. So it's not only shabas paras, it's shabas bacious. Listen to this more. The pik says our para which is of course creation of the world. Shabas commemorates the creation of the world. Shabas we imitate that hashem rested on the seventh day and so too we do. Hashem rested. He stopped. He ceased on the seventh day all the work he had been doing. What does it mean? What does it mean? He rested from all the work he had done. Says that goes there. What was the work Hashem was doing? How did he do work all the rest of the week? He went to Home Depot and Lowe's. He picked up tools. He built with his hands. No. How did Hashem build? We know. With 10 sayings, Hashem created the world. We say it in our every day. Blessed is God who spoke and the world came to be. Uros, he said, "All God had to do was speak and things came to be." We can appreciate this now in our time. I just read Elon Musk said the next version of Tesla if it's raining outside will drop you in front and you can program the car go find an empty parking spot and you won't care how far away it is because you'll already be undercover and when it's time to leave you'll in your phone summon your Tesla will come pick you up and you won't be exposed from the rain you can talk now talk into your phone you could turn the lights on you can talk into your phone adjust your air conditioning you could talk into your phone and the car will come pick you up spoke and the world came to Shabas says that what does it mean? Hashem rested from the work he was doing. The work was with the power of speech and what he rested was he no longer spoke words of creation, words of building. says learns from that we're not allowed to talk about you can't talk about weekday topics weekday themes weekday needs the speech on should not be the way a Jew speaks on Shabas is different than the way we speak during the week during the week we speak business we speak politics during the week we speak the stock market during the We speak about things that can weigh us down. But the shabas and shabas we sing. We tell stories. We share. It's a shabas. So one of the ways that we imitate Hashem, one of the ways that we stop working is not only not doing the 39 categories of creative labor. But we also change our speech. So this Shabas to commemorate our para the creation of the world in the very first Shabas the same way God stopped and ceased creating by changing his speech we too have to be mindful and cognizant and aware of our speech shab should not be like what we talk about how we say our vocabulary shabas should be different and there are sadikim there are righteous people who start doing that already from midday on Friday you turn Friday into shabas not everybody can not everybody can not sitting in judgment or pressuring or shame not everybody can but if you can organize and construct your week that already from a few hours before Shabas you're not talking business you're not going on Amazon and shopping you're not engaged in vadik weekday activity weekday speech weekday creation weekday work weekday building we can drag in we could already bring in Shabas early so this is not just Shabas paras it's Shabas berious it's the shabas of new beginnings and we can begin on the right foot if we begin with the right lips, if we begin with the right mouth. And then Hashem blesses the seventh day and he sanctifies it. We bless the seventh day and we sanctify it when we change our pattern. When we change our vocabulary, when we change all our speech, we should be za to not only a shabas paras but a shabas of new beginnings, fresh beginnings, fresh start, a fulfillment to all our promises and all of our pledges should be one where our speech is recognizable. Someone who listens or overhears says, "Oo, it must be Shabas. I can tell from the way they're speaking what they're speaking about." If a person were in our home or easedropping on our conversations, if a person was at our table, would they know just from what we're speaking and how we're speaking that in fact is Shabas. We should change speech just like Hashem changed his speech. The way that we sanctify and bless the seventh day is through that change in the power of speech. We should be z to shabas the mura. So excited already. It's shabas. We need shabas. We love shabas. We rest on shabas. We can't wait. It should be a beautiful, healthy, happy, and holy shabas. for all filled with bes. [Music]