Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #29 - The Real You

[Music] all right good arab shabbos we're going to start in just one moment gotta get another shabbos era russian mood [Music] all right welcome back to everybody so excited to be together again on this heir of shabbos which is also arab rosh hashanah this is it this is our last turn friday into heir of shabbos of the year until next friday when we start the first of the new year i want to thank our generous sponsors who are continuing their sponsorship my dear friends mandy and seapora fishman is thank you so much for your generosity it's air rosh hashanah era of your madin ratzon era fresh start new beginning reinvent ourselves era of being mamli we're going to coronate the almighty we're going to make declare him our king we're going to celebrate the inauguration we're going to blow the trumpets not tomorrow because of shabbos but sunday so excited we're counting down not only to shabbos but also to yantef and as we are on the cusp of rosh hashanah with still a lot more to do i want to share with you two quick thoughts as you join me yet again this afternoon i'm so honored and flattered that you're together with me the first comes from the behem of thank you and he makes the following point go to yoma how great rosh hashanah is whether hashanah falls on shabbos roshan itself is filled with such kadusa it's pregnant with meaning with opportunity with invitation with a chance to reinvent to rebuild to redefine but when it combines with the caduceus of the sanctity of shabbos alexander alexander again it says in the name of rebellion falls on shabbos we are able to overlap and combine three incredible levels kiba shabbas macabre what we've been spending our time on and we're taking a break from is defining what it means that on shabbos we get in the shade we're endowed with a holier a more lofty or more expanded a more expansive sense of our neshama we've talked about that in the realm of food and in the realm of rest and the realm of worry we've been defining what that means in the shade so first of all shabbos comes gonna light the shabbos candles we're gonna say the show is kiddish we're gonna welcome the shabbos kadusha and we're gonna get them to show nisham essera the broader bigger more expanded soul biantif nefesh of not neshama but a different level of our soul which is the nephesh you have an expanded nephesh and biroshkodesh ruach we have and expanded a broader a bigger ruach so the human being is made up of a ruach nefesh and nishama these are three different levels of the soul we have in common with other parts of creation that also are alive are animated just like a kurdish barcode created this is the anniversary of the creation of the world is actually the anniversary of the creation not of the world but of man because bishop elena the whole world was created specifically for us but what we share in common with the with the animal kingdom and the uh vegetative world arua nephesh and when shabbos yantif and rosh come all three are invitations for renewal so my dear friends tonight and tomorrow they're not just rosh hashanah they're rosh hashanah we have these overlapping caduceus and therefore we're able to elevate we're able to take off we're able to lift we're able to feel genuine and true and authentic and sincere who we are we're able to dream about who we can be both when these three overlap and they fall at one time one day yes it is a particularly auspicious time it's a particularly welcome time it's a time that we can particularly express our dreams our aspirations to that we reach and we stretch and we ask and he meets us more than halfway he assists and he lifts and he elevates and he helps us so that's number one number one is that this is a very significant time it's not just a coincidence when shabbos falls on rosh hashanah roshana falls on chabas but there's a combination there's an intersection of caduceus of sanctities which when combined are pregnant with possibility with opportunity whatever this past year tough shin pay had which was filled with a lot of people with disappointment frustration anxiety worry maybe a lot of simcha and relief and gratitude it's hard to even remember what happened at half of tough shin pay the first half of the year is like a blur it's a distant memory been trying to figure out was that this year was that before corona when did how did that happen it's hard to see past corona but many people are ready to turn that page on to end the year with its curses to start the new year that's going to come with blessings this is it tonight we're going to turn the page the year is not over yet though today is not over yet you know what you're going to say hashem please bless this year the year the what the 15 minutes that are left of the year you're going to say because there's 15 minutes left to the year the answer is yeah there could be one minute there could be one moment left of the year but how we see ourselves how we define ourselves who we are what we dream what we think what we strive for defines us we can recapture and we can transform an entire year with one moment you could be conan of the shona you could be kona the whole year barega in that last moment the barakalena the shmonas in the final moments as the sun is setting on the year you can still acquire you can transform the entire year the year is not over so make the most of what's left of the year and also embrace and grab on to this opportunity of rosh hashanah which is rosh chodesh with shabbos with yantef a ruach nefesh and ashama all that are yasera that are bigger and better and more expansive what a fresh opportunity for us to combine our energies to be able to dive in from the deepest places in our hearts and to be able to admit to shrimp secured as a beautiful year that's all point number one point number two and then let's go get ready for rosh hashanah we still have a lot to do point number two comes from from shore his weekly newsletter his kudusa torah he's a long piece here very very beautiful but there's one paragraph paragraph that jumped off the page to me and that i want to share with you as we go into rosh hashanah because we spoke about rosh hashanah in terms of aaron hashama our relationship with hashem our accountability our consequences are his expectations of us our expectations of him the relationship being mammoth hashanah which inaudible evaluating our relationship between us and fellow men so listen to this insight yeshua lemur inaudible you know we don't blow the chauffeur we don't believe the chauffeur i was curious yesterday and so i asked do you know that reforming conservative don't blow the chauffeur when rosh hashanah falls on shabbos either on the first day i thought that was fascinating because there's many other rules that they don't abide by that they're flexible with and this is a rabbinic rule don't blow the chauffeur you may come to carry it and yet they keep it it's almost universal even though it's illogical that they would do that so claw you saw collectively don't blow the chauffeur when rosh hashanah falls on shabbos which isn't itself a fascinating sugya because blowing the chauffeur is biblically mandated and the rabbis have the right to come along and say you should not fulfill a biblical mitzvah biblical commandment why because a person might want to go to an expert to learn how to blow the chauffeur so they're going to walk to aladdin they're going to walk four amos in a public thoroughfare they'll carry on shabbos out of a fear of zera maybe possibly what if don't do the mitzvah don't do the mitzvah doesn't the biblical mitzvah supersede the rabbinic fear and yet we observe the rabbinic fear liz khon name bishop lisbon think for a moment for whom are we all jews of every denomination jews of every stream of every background our forfeiting chauffeur blowing tomorrow forfeiting it we're doing it for the jew who needs to blow the chauffeur but doesn't know how they ain't minionless paolo and he has no one to listen to the chauffeur from but he's going to forget that shabbos for this jew who will need to learn how to blow because they don't even have a minion to go to and they're going to forget that achaba so they're going to end up carrying it and walking for that jew claudius the whole jewish people millions of jews around the world are going to forfeit show for tomorrow all out of concern and love and connection and devotion we're gonna put the needs of that one jew who doesn't know how to blow and can't hear anyone else blow and may come to carry because they'll forget a shot for that we'd say look that's not my problem he should know a child it's not my problem he should have a minion not my problem he should know how to blow we don't say that we say you know what it's my problem his problem is my problem millions of jews everywhere in the world we're not going to blow because we're going to put their needs ahead of our own kamas that's it's not that we're putting their life ahead of our life we're putting their spiritual life ahead of our life in order to prevent a fellow jew to accidentally carry on shabbos we all millions of jews forfeit the mitzvah chauffeur blog it's mind-boggling we have to forfeit what we have to do is we have to give a piece of our rakhnes for theirs what a lesson of rosh hashanah a relationship between us and god and a relationship between us and our fellow jews how many jews are bereft how many jews are deprived of the beauty of judaism who don't even know it's rosh hashanah who even if there weren't a pandemic we're not going to enter a shul and the message of the halacha that we don't blow shop for on rashford that falls on shabbos the message is that we transfer a piece of our yes we forfeit we concede we give up a piece of more expansive more beautiful more bigger and more greater and we should care about our fellow jew in a way that we pass on part of our rookies to them so that claudius we should be amech by seeing ourselves as one community one people one nation wherever we are in the world by being amech that's how kulam sadikim should have hasimatova we should all be signed and sealed for a year of good health and happiness a year of nachas a year of growth near shamayim a year of parnassa a year of sharing simchas of dancing hand in hand of learning together in person a year of the best of everything wishing everyone exiv um thank you