Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #44 - Shabbos is the Source of All Blessing

[Music] we're going to start learning in one moment the cupboard [Applause] [Music] we come together to get ready to transition the hustle and bustle of chaos of the week to the here comes the silence almost time for shabbos [Music] there it is siren time welcome back to the student volunteer of shabbos want to thank our generous sponsors our dear friends mandy and super fishman alfredo memory of remember jonathan sacks are you thank you for your generosity shabbos is my courthouse who doesn't want and who doesn't need bracha it's been a difficult week a complicated week uh for americans a painful week for the world an attack on a democracy but shabbos is the time of unity we've spoken about pressures by yakel we have to join together come together show us a time of community and camaraderie is a time of unity it's a time that we come together it's makora bracha it is the source of blessing who doesn't want and who doesn't need blessing in life so all week long we are pursuing blessing all week long we are trying to achieve blessing all week long we're trying to bring blessing and work for blessing but shabbos the blessing comes and all you have to do is light the shabbos candles and illuminate what's right under your nose and see the blessing you woke up this morning it's a blessing you could put one foot in front of another it's a blessing a roof over your head a car to drive food in your mouth it's a blessing so shabbos when we can shut down that noise and liberate ourselves and see what's right in front of us who makour we can tap into what is the source of bracha and the shabbos if you don't ever rest if you don't ever stop if you don't ever reflect if you don't ever appreciate then what's the point of it all so as we say every week we do not rest on shabbos so that we have the energy to go work another week we work the whole week in order to arrive at shabbos chavez is not the rest rejuvenation to get back to work all that work is to get to shabbos shabbos is the macor bracha it's the source of bracha when we experience and focus and live when we sing and laugh and learn that is the machor bracha that is the source of bracha in our lives the shabbos is no ordinary shabbos we are beginning a very important part of the year a part of the year called shove of him the word show of them is a comes from apostolic the navi tells us return my children show of him and in fact the parsha schmos shamos banay israel haboi mitsurama the russia tevos the first letter of each of those words in the passage is an acronym for shavim so you see it means to come back to return hash of him and the end of it spells tahilam so we have this notion these weeks of show of him are special the distinct they're different what show them yes but it is an acronym if you take the first letter of each of the parachutes the next day weeks it spells the word shove of him shubhabanam show them return children who are returning hashem meets us halfway when we make the effort so normally this time of year is thought about show of them is a period in which we work on our holiness our sanctity kedusha sabres kids sowed it's a time in which we are practicing greater discipline and greater dignity in the area of what we look at what we gaze at what we think about god forbid how we act out in the area of intimacy and interpersonal relationships in the area of morality it is a time that we reach and we strive even higher and factor of cook writes in his writings that the institution of show them the idea that torah jews have a time of the year that is designated to think about and to reflect and to work hard on how to improve and enrich ourselves in the area and the boundaries of morality in what we look at the images the icons we allow in our head because what comes in through our eyes is what our head thinks and fantasizes about is what leads to the actions that we do so if cook writes the very fact that jews have designated a time of the year to think about and work on these things is in itself something which is a light onto the nations it will attract the admiration and the awe and the accolades from the nations of the world who will see that a world in disarray a world in which relationships are dissolving and in crisis that cries through the jewish people that torah informs and inspires us to reach higher and to strive harder and to elevate ourselves and to live beyond the here and now and beyond the physical impulse and compulsivity that in itself is a model for is a model for the world such right to have cook so these weeks beginning this shabba shmoos from stuff two more weeks they tack on to be working about these things but here's the amazing part that is i don't want to say it's well known it's fairly well known the arizal the hilaga rizal uh revised gloria the great kabbalist was the one who first saw this passage shuba bonham show with him show of them as an acronym for these weeks and these weeks that is time to work on these things but i want to share with you my founder of el yada goldwyck in his mikhail shared with us and we shared with a beautiful insight of the sadaq the third helicopter writes we know it's written in the holy's forum that on these days the parasha's show of him we work on the sins of our youth it doesn't mean the sins that we did when we were young it means the sins of the young you have 70 years old of the vigor in this area of the young so we're not talking about an age that you work on it we're talking about a mindset and an energy level it's a time we work on it's what we think about but listen to what he writes to hillary clinton the third rebbe the core way to elevate ourselves in this period called show them the core way to recalibrate our compass and to drop that anchor and to remind ourselves what matters and to transform shabbos into the makuura bracha is show when we elevate when we are more conscientious and more thoughtful and more mindful and more observant of shabbos the imrae noam also writes quote in these weeks we don't only work on and study the area of elevating ourselves when it comes to morality but rather shabbos shabbos is the key time the show of them the core time in which we are able to repair the core time in which we're able to propel and we're able to elevate the shabbos but i'm behaving ishmael the diver ishmael of slalom the great salon right be m the most important the most significant the highest tikkun that we can do is when it comes to shabbos shabbos is the time of repair so in these weeks of show of him in these parachutes that we're about to read it's a time not only to be more careful with what we look at and what we think about with what we watch and where we go and what we read and what we allow into our homes and into our minds but it's a time that the core part of working on show of them is working on shabbos looking forward to shabbos and counting down to shabbos and anticipating shabbos and turning friday into arab shabbos to not be rushed but to be ready to not get angry or flustered but to be calm and tranquil to be able to turn friday into arab shabbos and to turn shabbos into makor bracha why is shabbos the core time to work on ourselves one might intuitively instinctively say it should be exactly the opposite all week long i'm working on myself all week long a person is working out and dieting a person's going to work to earn the income all week long a person has to wake up early in the morning kill themselves to late at night shabbos i want to veg i want to pass out shabbos i want to eat and then i want to crawl on all fours to my bed with a belly full of challenge and i want to pass out with a copy of mishpochah magazine i heard there's a great article in it this week shabbos is when i want to just collapse that's what i have to work oh shikaya that's when i have to work shabbos i want to rest what am i working on myself on shabbos so the swarm says fassem says we say in our kiddish tonight that shabbos corresponds with myself we're commemorating that hashem rested but it's also it's the time that we liberate and emancipate ourselves all week long we are enslaved we are addicted to our devices to our technology to our distractions to our work to noble and in noble holy and unholy activities and efforts says this is shabbos commemorating these the parties that we're reading about time show them we're reading about the exodus we'll be reading about the liberation we're reading about being emancipated and freed from egypt shabbos comes free yourself free yourself unplug disconnect and plug in and reconnect to what matters most and when can we do it shabbos is the time that we can do it most shabbos is the time that we can remind ourselves of who we can be shabbos is the time that we have the clarity and the margin and the mindset our mind is not clogged with noise and with influence and this was a week that was painful and difficult and not to suggest that we forget it or gloss over we have to learn from it but we put up on the shelf until mote shabbos mode says all the news will be there all the news it didn't take long for 2021 to stink all the news will be there mozai shabbos you'll find out the latest in corona and the latest in politics and the latest in life but shabbos 24 hours disconnect from all that and reconnect to yourself because if you don't take care of you there is nothing else we are the most important asset that we have and just like shemitah the field rests and lays fallow on shemitah in the seventh year so the field is then positioned for six days to produce we need to rest and rejuvenate we need to return to ourselves we need to take care of ourselves because we are the greatest asset that we have and only when we are well rested and only when we are centered and only when we are spiritually and emotionally balanced can we take on all that we do during the week so we work all week in order to get to shabbos shabbas is our reward it's the core bracha and we rest on shabbos in order to be strong and in order to be in a position to be able to kill it and conquer it the whole week long it is the mccord bracha so it says the helicopters friday night kid is shabbos ezekiel we're commemorating creation god worked six days he rested the seventh we work we conquer six days and we rest we are at peace in the seventh but it's also zaikali it also commemorates that we were liberated from egypt and boy don't we all have things we have to be liberated from who's not addicted some to social media and some to sports some to shopping and some to working some are even addicted to exercise some are addicted to substances some are addicted who doesn't have who doesn't have a struggle an area they compulsively impulsively turn to shabbos we can liberate ourselves and recalibrate ourselves and get a glimpse into who we can be so that we can draw from it with our shama sarah and we could take it into the whole week take the best of ourselves that we discovered that shabbos and we can make the best of ourselves not a once a week not one seventh of who we are but continue to build and expand on it so it remains part of who we are going forward on a regular basis that is who we are shuv bonham shove him apostle hash of him is the beginning of the illest mose israel and these are the weeks this is it this is when we get ready and we work hard to turn friday into arab shabbos so i want to wish you my holy friends a beautiful shabbos a holy shabbos a healthy shabbos a happy shabbos may we all strive to be able to tap into the mccord bracha the shabbos to be a source of blessing in our lives and now the cover shabbos [Music] [Applause] is [Music] for those in boca the shabbos is a lights out shallow should us show them addition lights out shall i shoot us in the main shul we will usher out shabbos as the lights fade sitting in the dark singing from our hearts hope to see you there cover shabbos kardash [Music] a holy and a happy and a healthy shabbos everybody it's the siren go get ready you