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Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #39 - The Best Friend of the Soul
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we lost everybody
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thank you for being with us again to
turn friday into era of shabbos a huge
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and in memory of rabbi lord jonathan
texas tv ben david arya that is the
siren shabbos is quickly coming
so join me as we turn this friday into
a hilar shabbos again thank you to the
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going through and offering many
different explanations
but what does it mean to have an
yes or what does it mean to have an
extra endowed a more beautiful and more
expanded
a more sensitive a more alert soul that
all we glowing our goof our body it
craves we indulge it we pamper it we
feed it we nourish it
and come shabbos that struggle that
battle it takes a break for 25 hours
the challenges and problems will be
there on the other end but for 25 hours
we enter an ear mikula we go to a place
of refuge for 25 hours
we experience some peace and some
serenity for 25 hours we're able to
truly live before we dive back into it
i just want to reiterate what i shared
in our what's up group this morning
about turn friday into arab shabbos
that many or most we read we sing you
did nephesh to transition even before we
begin kabbalah
we sing they look helico the magnificent
poem of
yadid nephesh nephesh was authored by
the author of the save
who lived 1533 to the year 1600 he lived
in the 16th century as fardi makuba
and he so beautifully captures and you
did nephesh are
longing our craving our our love affair
with the almighty with the ribonus
shalom to return and to connect
to our source such a magnificent
magnificent poem every line every stanza
is worthy
of such analysis we sing it we sing it
friday night we sing a chalice shoot us
many sing it other times during shabbos
and we should understand what it means
but i just want to bring to your
attention the opening
two words because i think about them i
try to think about them
each and every friday night what are the
opening two words
you did nephesh the word you did if you
talk about my you did my
did means my friend you did as a cover
you did as a friend or you did as a
confidant
you did never it's a language we use in
the vernacular when we describe
someone with whom we feel very close
someone we trust and who trusts us we
say
there may you didn't efficient you did
as a friend and what's a nephesh and
efficient
so what does it mean we begin shabbos
the transition
from the chaos and the hustle and the
bustle from the stress the anxiety of
the weak
into the peace of mind and the serenity
and the sanctity of shabbos
that transition begins by singing a song
you did
nephesh you see my goof my body has a
friend and its friends are
material things work pampering
indulgences
accumulating and amassing more and more
the the the friend that you did
of my goof of my body is sleep a good
steak
a fine wine that's the you did that's
the friend of my body
but what is the you didn't fish why did
he say
why does he begin this beautiful song he
says you did nephesh
because the yadid the best friend of my
soul is the ribbon of shalom
we transition from the weekday to
shabbos by singing a song and we say
hashem you're my best friend my soul is
more on fire my soul is more alert my
soul has time
you know i don't make a great friend
because unfortunately i don't have a lot
of time
and so i'm unable to be proactive and to
check in and to reach out and to connect
and some of my best friends maybe this
is a gender thing for guys more than for
women it's a
generalization but probably a true one
you could not talk to a dear or close
friend for a long time
and there are you did nefish they're a
deer and they're a close friend
and when you see them that whole history
and that whole familiarity
and that whole connection and that whole
trust it all comes back and revives in
moments
it takes moments for someone you haven't
spoken to in weeks or months or
years to feel yuri did nephesh so some
we dive in all week long it's not that
we don't have it three times a day
it's not that we don't learn hashem's
torah all day each day
but during the day during the week what
can we do we have to work
and we have to cook and shop and prepare
and during the week we have all kinds of
responsibilities and obligations
stresses anxieties and worries
and therefore our soul it doesn't have
time for its good friends but shabbos
comes
and we begin you did nephesh and you did
nephesh begins hashem
i've made time for my best friend you
helped
you helped me make time because i turned
off i disconnected
i'm not part of technology i'm not
distracted and so
you did nephesh my father my
compassionate father
who's also my you did nephesh who's also
the best friend
of my soul so that nishama yasira that
extra that expanded soul that we have on
shabbos
what it means to have an expanded soul
is to have the time and the space
to have the bandwidth and the margin to
be able to reconnect
with our best friend and who is the best
friend of the nishamu who's the best
friend of the soul
if not the ribonus the almighty is the
best friend of every one of our souls
all week long we barely can carve time
all week long we could barely have the
mindfulness of the margin
shabbos comes it's a different davening
it's a different learning
it's singing zemiros it's conversation
it's the ability to think and to rest
and to connect
and simply to be and to be together you
did nephesh
the best friend of my nephesh the best
friend of my soul is in fact none other
than
the ribonus and that's why we transition
in that way
we begin from the weekday to the shabbos
by singing yadidnefish
beginning we remind ourselves the body
it's best friends we put them away
the technology and the work and the
stock market and the worry and the news
and the
put it all away but what do we take out
what do we make time for
we make a call to the did of our nephesh
to our best friend now we have time
and now we can be together and now we
can enjoy that's what it means maybe in
the shera too
is that the neshama is yasera it has
more time it has more space
it can be it can reconnect to what
matters and who matters
both the people around us and of course
as or more importantly
the ribonucleon the almighty himself
okay let's begin or let's continue
rather in the safer we've been learning
say for hashabas
we've been going through this is the
15th understanding
the fifteenth explanation of what it
means to have an ashami
sera a more or expanded or a greater
soul
who is the morin of chernobyl the
chernobyl
i have a dear friend shiragi golden her
she was a
muchas to the chernobyl rebbe for my
wedding he gave me a copy of the
orinayam and on the inside cover he
wrote exactly the genealogy of how he
descends
from the great menachem of chernobyl the
chernobyl
is a time of love certainly but shabbos
is also a time of year
of awe and the fear not of fear in the
negative
not ye onish not a fear of punishment
but you're as haramas
the notion that we're filled with awe
you see you can't have awe
when all week long you're looking down
you're looking down your thumbs are
working overdrive
and you can't even look up and notice
the magnificent world around us
who sees the magnificence of nature and
of the world
and the awesomeness of hashem such an
overused and abused word
awesome awesome everything's awesome
everything's awesome
if everything's awesome nothing's
awesome the only thing that's awesome or
the most awesome is hashem
he is truly awesome he truly fills us
with awe
you look at hashem you look at his world
how could he not be filled with awe but
you know when you're worried when you're
working when you're distracted
then you don't even notice he's there
and you don't feel any sense of awe
shabbos comes
and miss batshetta says the chernobyl
that's when we filled with
the urushiol
hello even the ignoramus in
the person who doesn't know jewish law
who lacks a naamanas who lacks a
trustworthiness
in general areas of jewish law but
we have a principle we have a assumption
that no matter how ignorant someone is
nobody would lie on shabbos
when it comes to shabbos a mashable love
the awe the fear the connection the
meshami is
you're more alive your soul is more
alive your soul is more sensitive your
soul is more aware your soul is not
going to lie in shabbos
hashem's kingship his monarchy his
divinity is
is revealed it is spread out throughout
the world
by year so the more aware you are of
god's dominion
the more you are aware of god's of god's
kingship
the more you feel you recoil with the
sense of oh he's everything i'm nothing
i'm in awe of him i'm in awe of his
world i'm in awe of all that he gives
me.
and therefore the china says and his
voracious
what does that mean the word voracious
is made up of the letters
beratious has in it yare yod resh alef
and shabbas shin besof boris has
yareshabas why
because the beginning of everything the
beratious the whole week is to get to
shabbos
where we're filled with a sense of hera
where we have a sense again not
fear and not fear of punishment or fear
of something going wrong
but rather not fear but oh we're filled
with awe
we have room to realize and to look
around to contemplate and to reflect
to read and to think and when we do when
we have the margin in the space
to experience all that it's supposed to
leave us transformed
when you make abdullah that inshallah
leaves us but we are different
transformed people
what we read what we sang the
conversations we had the davening that
we experienced
the rest all of that brought about a
sense of oh wow
this is his world it's magnificent it's
fabulous
it's phenomenal it's marvelous in fact
it's awesome it's actually awesome
it is a world that's filled with awe and
we'll continue next week that's what
i'm saying
what's basically so we know that where
does hashem keep his era
so we'll continue with this next week
but the idea the fifteenth idea of what
in the shema is
what does it mean to have a more
expanded and more alive and more
sensitive soul
when it comes to shabbos what it means
is that when it comes to shabbos when
we've disconnected and cut off now we
have the space
to think to be and we're filled with awe
that's our mission
i want to wish everyone stay happy stay
healthy stay holy but most of all
have an awesome shabbos this is the new
greeting
this is the proper greeting according to
the chernobyl if someone says also
shabbos
what are you 15 years old what were you
born in the 60s what are you talking
about
the answer is the chernobyl
the greeting is have an awesome shabbos
a shabbos
which is taka filled with tremendous awe
wishing everyone a wonderful shabbos
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oh
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we got a few minutes left the siren is
coming
we're running out of time have a
wonderful shabbos everybody have an
awesome shabbos