Turn Friday Into Erev Shabbos #40 - High Speed Connection

we feel a connection to something so much bigger and greater than ourselves we feel that connection with hashem therefore our rabbis hashem said to moshe i have a wonderful gift hashem says you know other principles and values of torah they're not just meant for the jewish people they're meant for the world but shabbos shabbos is a treasure it's a gift it's unique for the jewish people so much so that we know gai shashavas misa if a non-jew tries to imitate or emulate the nanju says i love that idea i read somewhere about a jew in shabbos i'm keeping shabbos we say misa this is a gift to the jewish people the notion of rest wonderful rest the notion of disconnect from technology beautiful that's a message for the world a sabbatical weekly but the idea of shabbos in terms of malachis creative labor that we abstain from that's ours that is uniquely ours and we know it's very painful when someone's in the conversion process a candidate for conversion we make them violate shabbos on shabbos they have to turn a light switch on or they have to rip something up there's a whole old joke which i won't repeat now you hold of the error you don't hold to the arrow and does that count as your philoshabbas if the guy says i don't hold the arrows that count as their not fully observing shabbos so goes it's ours hashem took it out of his storehouse it's basically in his treasure house and he gave us this gift he said this is for you it's shabbos what does hashem formulate it why does he put it in that way that it's it's in my it's in my storehouse what is that image that he has so there's a beautiful insight here basically says you know hashem has in this world where he manifests himself where he expresses himself in this world israel you see he determined he predetermined he dictates everything else so much that we think is in our control is out of our control we take our initiative we do our best but in the end we let go and we let god it's really up to him but what is up to us what do we and we alone determine and define hakobi deshamayam everything is in the end of hashem how smart we are and how short or tall we are and how athletic and how artistic and when we are born and where we are born our dna our nature our nurture so much is imposed on us from above so much is predetermined so much has influenced hashem but you know what's not from hashem our sense of do we feel his presence do we understand our accountability do we feel and embrace his love do we want to spend time and communicate that sense of yeera shamayim not ye rasa unesh not lightning is going to strike and not some punishment's going to befall but yiras harumamus the notion that he's awesome and he's worthy of being in awe of that we and we alone by hiram asgaly so since yo is described as being in an ozark hashem storehouse it makes sense that the place he went to to go get shabbos was out of the storehouse essentially what it's telling us is that shabbos and your shamayim are synonymous shabbos is a time that we are undistracted we're focused we remember what's important we calibrate our compass we are attuned to and we are in touch with and we have a window into the world to come we know what it's like for undershama to be awake and alive to be sensitive and aware to live with that sense of his presence to live with your shamayim so it's not a coincidence he went to basically he went to the storehouse to give this gift called shabbos and what is in that storehouse down here on earth hashem doesn't hide his hanukkah presents for us there what is in that storehouse what's in there is and that's what we tap into and that's what we draw from is that no intermediary no buffering rather it's a direct high-speed connection true we're connected all week long you know you could have an interconnection 3g 4g 5g you could have a t1 line you could have dial up and i don't remember the old dial up connection it took forever so all week long we're struggling through dial up because you know what this thing's buzzing and beeping and vibrating in our pocket there's places to go and things to do and worries that we have and so there's all this buffering going on we can't connect because we're buffering buffering buffering all week long and shabbos comes high speed connection shabbos comes there's no buffering there's a direct line there is no there is no speed test that you have to run but we have a direct belief so what's the nest what does it mean for our soul to be awake and to be on fire and to be alive it means i don't know i've for the last eight nine months been only teaching over zoom other than shabbos which is a gift but it's very frustrating because the wi-fi doesn't always cooperate i'm at home right now i'm in my backyard but whether i'm in school or wherever i am you know each time you teach a sheer over zoom you got to offer a little feel a little prayer before hashem i'm about to press connect just let it work let it not break down let it not go offline let it not be too slow let it work every behind the bema with our guests let it work let them come on board let everybody be able to hear their inspirational message so all week long we're worried about buffering all week long we have to fear what if there's not a connection what if we lose that connection comes to can exhale then you say it's high speed there's no buffering there's no disconnect there's no slow upload or download hashem is the source of life and we want to feel alive so you know i'll give you another metaphor you look at your phone and the battery's dying and will it live and will it survive is it about to conk out in the middle of that phone call will your battery make it shabbos there's no battery shabbos you are plugged in you're not drawing from a battery and the battery's not wearing down i don't know about you but by friday the battery is almost at zero multishadows your batteries at 100 and i don't just mean your phone that you left plugged in over shabbos i mean you why because we plug in over shabbos all week long the battery depletes but shabbos the battery is not relying on the battery we're plugged in we have all the energy and all the electricity we need that's what it means to have an ishamiya to be electric to be on fire to have his from the source of and when you live with this all with this awareness with this reverence of hashem so that is the additional life that we have a little skip in our step a little energy tragically sadly too many people come to the shabbos table they're passing out they're falling asleep they have nothing left it should be the opposite drink a red bull a mountain dew have a cup of coffee before you say lachonarana before you go to shul shabbas is not the time that you collapse shabbos is the time that you stand up that you wake up that you plug in that you can exhale that you don't have to worry about bad connection about wi-fi about buffering about a dead battery plugged in you got high speed connection got an ashami sierra we're a lake awake we're on fire i'll leave you with rav from shaw writes along the same lines in his safer he writes separately shabbos who is shabbos is the revelation of the media of the quality of truth of ennis we know shabbos is a taste a window into the world to come what is the world to come as opposed to this world we live in an ahmed ashikra this is an upside down backward deceitful fraudulent world things are not as they seem people things happen in an upside down way than they should the world to come the world of hashem is the ms the world of revelation we saw this last week that even in arts khazal have a tradition of a principle not a tradition it's that even the alma arts even the ignoramus is afraid to lie on shabbos shecker is dissipated it's destroyed in shabbos shambhas is a world of truth we are our most authentic selves our truest selves so when we make contact with our immortality we make contact with the world of truth we have this allergy or this aversion to shecker a person of truth which we all are then gives us that energy to be a person of truth we flee we run away we have an allergic reaction to the lies that are before us this is the 15th interpretation of a nishami sarah is the high speed connection as opposed to the buffering wishing everyone a happy and the holy and the healthy shabbos [Music] foreign hello everybody have a fantastic and a phenomenal in the holy shops