Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #31 - Seeing Clearer on Shabbos

[Music] party all right everyone a good arab shabbos thank you so much for joining us as we do each and every arab shabbos to be able to celebrate and welcome in this week not only shabbos but to celebrate and welcome in yontif as well i want to thank our dear friends mandy and support fishman who sponsored turned friday into arab shabbos for high rivka fredo today as i said is not only heir of shabbos kodesh it's heir of the holy holiday of sukis we have the double erev and the double kadusha that we are going to welcome in starting tonight so so excited really incredible i want to share a couple quick thoughts to usher us into the holiness this dual double holiness that we are about to emit hashem encounter so first of all shabbos and yantiff or bissell of said are juxtaposed in terms of their kedusha and our experience and this year the way sukkas falls the fact that tonight is both shabbos and yantif means that we're able to tap into both simultaneously we're able to experience both in a most holy way what is the difference between the two shabbos is kabu of akaima shabbas is established count six days and the seventh day is automatically shabbos each end every week nothing we have to do just look at your calendar just look at the date the seventh day is automatically showed us each and every week nothing that we do yantif however in country distinction there is something fundamental that we do makadesh yisrael has doesn't happen on its own it's through bayes then being makadi shahodesh it's when baisden receives the testimony regarding the new moon and they accept that testimony they sanctify the new moon and they establish the calendar and that power that potency that license to establish the calendar is incredibly powerful it means they determine the holidays i feel like again whether by accident they miscalculate or whether intentionally manipulate the calendar but have the ability to absolutely manipulate and move the calendar to whatever will work for them that's why shabbos is makadesh hashabas that happens automatically god sanctified the jewish people and the jewish people sanctify yantef so first of all there is that dual relationship or that dual energy the two drivers of the holiness the sanctity shabbos and yantav coming from two different directions shabbos comes from above and yandev comes from below and tonight tomorrow when we experience and tap into the intersection of the two we are actually combining heaven and earth shabbos which comes from above and yanta which is which comes from below we are combining we are at the point the kiss between heaven and earth when we sit in our sukkah when we make kiddush when we say the shaykh tonight we are getting ready to be at that exact point at that exact intersection very very holy salvation said further another point he said shabbis barakum visits us yantif we visit him yant if we have a obligation the shallow shragon the three festival holidays we have an obligation of allela regal we go to you shall i and we go to the makkah mikdash we go to the base of mikdash we offer certain karbanos yantif is the rendezvous between us and god but we make the journey to be with him we are in his home we are in his turf we are in his territory we are guests of his shabbos again in distinction he comes to visit us shabbas he's our guest he's an artof he's on our territory which explains the minha that many have that friday night we sing shalom aleichem but we don't think shalom and yantif the malacham are not coming to visit us we don't sing like we're not receiving we're not accepting on onyantif hashem visits us if we visit him there's these again two different venues for the rendezvous between us and god who's playing host who's guest at which point are we making that connection tonight this year the way unto falls again the intersection of the two shabbos and yantif we are simultaneously guests in each other's homes and there are different men hugging that reflect this not for now but is it says an abbreviated kabbalah shabbos we don't sing lecha dodi tonight many of the men i got confirmed with my father today that our minha which is brought down in many safari that we don't sing shalom alaikum we don't give out brachas when friday night is yangtiv we move directly and treat it like a yontif the theme of yantev that we're visiting hashem supersedes the theme of shabbos that he's visiting us and yet others say no others sing a full kabbalah shabbas others sing a full lechadodi others all for a full show and these different hugging reflect the balance of the tension between the two different venues of the relationship that we're having with hashem in this way so all of that is point number one we're turning this friday into not only heir of shabbos but heir of shabbos which is aravyantiv the dual double kadusha under sham is extra expanded extra on fire extra present extra well rested extra alive extra informed extra inspired it is all those things the swastemas the hilagasthasama says that sukkus is the yantaf with his shepherd bracha of yadiyya pasik says almanude and the bach famously says that even though ordinarily you do not need to be mindful of the reason for the mitzvah to fulfill the mitzvah suk is an exception because the pasta says the many do you need to know what to think about in the famous mach lokas well do we sit in the sukkah to commemorate sukkos mamesh that we sat in actual boots and huts when we left egypt or the fact that there is this divine cloud there is this divine protection which hovers from above but le mans this fast says it's the yantaf of judea we can have knowledge we walk into sukkah shabbas we are immersed in shabbos sukkah we are immersed in the sukkah our entire being is invested immersed in it and we are able to have this idea this knowledge we're confused we're uncertain we're doubtful all week long all year long but sukkas we bask in the shade and the shadow of hashem we feel his love we feel his embrace we know it's we can have a idea we can have not not a belief not a leap of faith but we can have a yadiya atahara salah dasa we can know that there's hashem and we can know that he loves us you know many explain so beautifully when we sit in that sukkah sukkah is it has to have two walls and a little bit two full walls and a little bit and it's brought down that the two walls in a little bit represent the arm one wall two wall and the little bit is the embrace is the embrace that one can feel when you sit in the sukkah who's extending his arm he's putting his one wall to wall and a little bit the feeling is you look at that sukkah and you feel i am in the arms i'm in the hug i'm in the embrace of hashem not the true me of the um that hashem loves me all that's point number two point number three to turn this friday into heir of shabbos araviento to get ready to be able to both visit hashem and have him visit us simultaneously to have the kadusa of what comes automatically and the kedush of what we create we calculate and the calendar that we manipulate to be able to have it all simultaneously the vilnigan quotes it's a madrish plea it's said also in the name of the villain that the villain said avraham avinu kept the mitzvah sukkah how do we know about kept the mitsuha because the possible that word bachol the vendigon says is an acronym we have three that capture or communicate that transmit the obligation to sit in the sukkah one is basukos another is kola israel and the third le mans so the russia tables are of those three basuka's coal and the man is bakul hashem hashem blessed avram with everything avraham sat in the sukkah but there's something much deeper this bachol that avraham experienced hashem blessed avon with coal whenever we bench we say back home miko ko bako's avram mikol is is yaakov we have three psukem and they communicate that hashem gave this blessing to avram of coal and that notion of coal which we'll define in a moment avraham had he transmitted to yitzhak yitzhak gave it to yaakov and yakov invested and bequeathed it to all of us we have that sense of coal hashem the bakula ahmad debacle rather he gave it the it's gave it to all of us how does that connect to sukis what in the world does bakol have to do with the holiday of sukkos and the answer i think is very simple what is the notion that we go out to the sukkah tonight tomorrow yantaf the yantef of sukkas the yantef of shabbas what is the idea that we're going out to the sukkah what is the connect to bachol feeling that we're blessed with everything the notion is that we're going out to the shadow in the shade of you see when a jew lives in his own home or her own home they look around and they say this is mine i acquired it i built it i rent it i paid for it these possessions these things i worked hard for them their mind we're prideful we either take credit where it's not due or maybe we're jealous or envious of what others have or maybe we're dissatisfied and we think we need more but we think you know i don't have everything asap said yeshli rav yaakov says yeshli ko i have everything i have everything asap say yeah what i have is pretty good i got a bunch of wives i have a lot of possessions a lot of things i have a lot yesterday rav i have a lot yaakov said you know whatever little or however much i have by definition yeshlikol i got that from my father who got it from his father and they all left it to us that a jew no matter what's going on around us no matter the challenges no matter the obstacles no matter the pressures no matter what is going on around us and which holiday reminds us which holiday reinforces that which holiday communicates and supports us strengthens us that i have everything hashem as me bako i go outside to my sukkah and i remember that what matters is not my house what matters is my home a house are the four walls the brick and mortar a house are the wood a house are its dimensions our house is its decorations a home are the people in it the relationships the memories of the experiences so i leave my dearest i leave my permanent structure in order to go outside and to remember this little flimsy hut that requires imagination to even think it's a house this little deeras arai this temporary flimsy hut that only will exist due to the graciousness of god this deer sarai i have everything now this is yant if we need it more than ever we don't have our ordinary guests we have the ushbizen the ishbis and they don't have to distance and they don't have to wear masks they don't have to stay away they're not under quarantine the the holy seven shepherds they come all success they're not subject to the rules of corona the way they arrive and the way that they're present they're not subject to corona so these guests take on a greater significance in the year in which we're unable to host guests in the year in which our sukkah feels emptier than usual it needs to be filled even more with the light the light of our love the light of our torah the light of our faith and the light of our knowledge le many do that those holy shepherds are there tonight beginning with avraham we're going to welcome avraham into our sukkah tonight and we're going to welcome his vashem bacol we're going to welcome his sense of whatever i have i have everything because even if i sit in a circle all by myself if i merit to be alive and healthy healthy enough to sit in a sukkah buckle i have everything could i want more absolutely should i strive and be ambitious for more absolutely but at the same time i should be satisfied asa ushers to realize bachol i have everything i need vashem the sukkah is the yanta for bachol i leave my dear as keva i leave the permanent structure which i have the illusion of thinking that i acquired and i have the illusion of thinking will protect me and i go out to my dearest i go outside and i remember that was the source of absolutely everything and i reconnect with him so my holy turn friday into heir of shabbos friends this friday is not only arab shabbos it's arab the heligentif of sukkas to sit in the tail in the shadow in the shade of hakodesh borohu we should be zoha mikhail vasmanam and makadesha shabbas kurdish borah sanctifying shabbos and we are sanctifying the calendar we are going to visit him ali regal and he is visiting us pane shabbos and the cable of shabbos the intersection of the two should enrich and elevate and strengthen all of us and lastly we should feel blessed to be bakol that whatever we have we have what's meant for us we have everything we have everything we need we have everything that's by design we have everything that is from hashem we like visiting us tonight he's our guest in our sukkah and even if there are other empty chairs that we wish we could be with children or grandchildren we wish we were with neighbors or friends we wish guests and other people sukkah nevertheless we have ah from every one of us at avraham and if we have avenues like in yaakov if we have the holy shepherds and we have the ultimate shepherd then bakol then in fact we have everything wishing everyone a beautiful yontif a beautiful shabbos a good fito that we should be zakha we should merit to look up at that and to realize that we are kurdish baraku the shade has to come from the dullo the way that we grow it has to come from that which comes from hashem if the shade comes from the walls it's not a kosher sukkah it has to come from the schacht it has to come from the cell the cell of a moon that sail of the ribonus the tail of hashem holy joey you want to leave us with a let me mute you can i unmute you can you unmute yourself hey leon joey give us give us one i'll tell you a that i wrote last year was when i was putting up the goes like this [Music] thank you [Music] thank you holy joey newcomb thank you for being on thank you for listening thank you for singing thank you for lifting us everybody stay happy stay healthy stay holy have a beautiful shabbos and have a beautiful iantiff [Music]