Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #55 - Turn Up the Fire

a good error of shabbos to everyone welcome back to turn friday into air of shabbat so glad that you're here with us and so sad and sorry that we cannot yet listen to music in order to be able to welcome and celebrate the covet shabbos kaidish you have to hum and sing to yourself as we remain in the midst of spirits omer and we are mourning and grieving for our own misbehavior our own failure to treat each other respectfully we're working on that in the meantime we cannot sing and dance on arab shabbos because we are precluded from listening to music i want to thank our generous sponsors for the turn friday and to air of shabbos series for the year my dear friends mendy and sippura fishman rifles freddle in memory of rabbi lord jonathan sachs ravi yakuza ben david arya also today's particular class of turn friday terror shabbos is generally sponsored by our beloved member mirna hershorn in memory of her husband marvin hershorn mosha nassan on his first year at site he was a wonderful man a dear friend a model member of our community an icon of how to daven a really special person and we miss him terribly we have been learning ravichamer morgenstern's friday how to turn friday quite literally into arab shabbos he is giving us exactly the guide the path for how to connect with arab shabbos so we've gone through several sections already in terms of shopping and preparing we've talked about uh torment the idea of tasting the heir of shabbos food the shabbos food and arab shabbos already transforming an act of eating from a mundane physical act to a holy spiritual wall and beginning that process out of shabbos we talked about cutting nails on friday the nails the growth the dirt under the nails represents what we sunk our nails in how we've soiled our nails throughout the week we clean them and we cut them and we get ready for shabbos represents a new beginning a fresh start it represents cutting away and cleaning the soil the dirt under our fingernails that we dug into perhaps the wrong things then we began rekritsa the idea of cleansing ourselves cleaning ourselves in anticipation in preparation for shabbos and we spoke about the cleaning in the paneemius the punim that before shabbos the person has to clean pawn of yadavaragal the faces the panema's the inside is what it represents that we use warm water we're not just washing ourselves we are illu castering ourselves just like a pot that's absorbed a non-kosher taste we have absorbed non-kosher ideas and images during the week and how do we get ready for shabbos we don't dip in boiling water we don't pour boiling water we don't self-clean an oven but when we take hot shower we are ki'ilu kashering ourselves cleansing ourselves purging ourselves of any of that of any of those non-kosher tastes that we have absorbed during the week okay so we pick up here page nun allah morgenstern we are cleansing washing wiping away the um hot we're wiping away i'm sorry hat somebody wrote hot mikvah kashar should reopen halawa soon so we are taking away the peel the shell the barry deja ms and your water represents torah water represents truth water just like it washes away the soil the dirt the barrier so to the truth washes away the illusions and the falsehoods the lies we tell ourselves the rationalize when we rationalize our behavior the term rationalize stands for rational lies the rational lies we tell ourselves if oh a person remembers to the degree that we remember the almighty and this kindness the flow of his blessing blessing to us the more that we are aware and mindful of the truth the more that we correct the more we escape living in illusion the more we remember his involvement and the consequence his authority that we report to him that we serve him nonetheless that we will be taken smitten distracted and tempted by this world vitsar how do you remove that shell how do you remove that barrier how do you remove that residue how do you remove all the layers that have been added on us throughout our week and our interaction in this world in the pursuit of the material in the pursuit of that pleasure you do it with hot water why how do you produce hot water you need a fire you need a source that's on fire do you know how we remove how do we shed that clipper how do we shed the shell how do we shell those barriers by being on fire we have to be on fire you know being on fire is not just for a kid who's in there shana aleph in israel being on fire is not just for the seminary girl being on fire is not just the kolo young light being on fire is not just the baal chuva who's new to this whole thing being on fire is not just the person who heard a great commencement or tish every one of us we are responsible and we are capable of turning up the flame of being on fire passionate enthusiastic excited and therefore we need to produce that warm water to washing with the fire of excitement don't say oh it's another shabbos yes it's another shabbos another two partials we're reading another peric another chapter of pirkei elves of ethics of our fathers we're reading you got to be on fire aish we got to be on fire because the ants are the way to successfully serve in those difficult times kashirak kripas vanessionism when the layers are being placed upon us when the shell and the peel are thickening around us when we feel we're being tested and being challenged how do we overcome where do we find the strength and the endurance and the tenacity and the resolve lavod shall his orders resource is gotta wake up and sight that inner fire fan that flame that fire burns through it purges it removes it absolutely eviscerates whatever barrier would ever peel whatever layer is there his resus alacrity zeal enthusiasm energized wake up you know turning friday into arab shabbos for many people as friday comes they're coming off the week exhausting running working told the story recently to you about the rapist crone tells about the ghanaian the heider mora who has the shabbos abba and before you make skittish this little boy says oh boy am i tired now he's ready for kiddush because that's what he saw his father do every week shabbos is not the time that we turn it off shabbos is the time that we turn it on shabbos is not the time that we relax and let go shop is the time that we get energized and enthusiastic we work all week for shabbos so imagine you work all week to shabbos and shabbos you pass out and you miss it and you neglect it and you don't take advantage of it and you're not transformed by it and then you go back to another week of working when do you get the break in the cycle we don't rest on shabbos so we could work all week we work all week so that we can immerse ourselves in shabbos takles la masa boracios this is what it's all about you put in the time you're working hard you're earning every dollar you're shopping and cooking you're running a household you're doing whatever we're doing we're surviving corona pandemic we're fighting to get through the week not so that we collapse and disappear in shabbos so that we're energized and enthusiastic so that we're awake so you want a new ritual to turn friday into arab shabbos have a cup of coffee right before you go to kabbalah shabbas cup of coffee what do you mean i want to come home have the meal as quickly as possible pass out as quickly as possible why would i drink coffee it's going to keep me up the answer is you know why you drink coffee because it's going to keep you up we want to be up doesn't mean that there's no room for rest on shabbos sleeping achabis is wonderful it's kishmuk it's gevalting it's almost as good as the chong there's nothing better than a schluff shabbos afternoon with a belly full of challenge it's the best the deepest sleep the most restful but that's not all shabbos that's not defining our shabbos that's not why we count down to shabbos it's a part of shabbos it's a part of shabbos so therefore the idea of washing in warm water on friday afternoon is the image of turning that flame up so there's a pilot light all week long it burns inside us and that pilot light at times is higher at times is lower you can't always be on fire you're not always going to be so enthusiastic whether it's in the month of augme or whether it's other time during our life that the pilot light is down but on friday an air of shabbos turn that pilot light up kick it up that flame has to be fanned it has to glow it has to burn bright it has to be energized so we specifically wash in warm water you want to get away the clipper you want to wash away the shell the peel you want to wash away the layers you want to be able to reveal the light inside us you want to invite you want to be able to expose the best us the truest us the most on fire us to the world and it's through fire be on fire drink that cup of coffee prepare that torah set aside that story think of the provocative question get pumped get psyched for shabbos and even if you're not feeling it fake it till you make it when you act like you're excited you'll become excited we can't of course because we're still in sphero but turn up that music friday afternoon put a skip in your step let the walls of the house be reverberating through the base of the speaker playing that air of shabbos music wake up turn up that fire walk into shabbos not to pass out walk into shabbos to wake up to wake up. he says or a victor meyer fake it till you make it at least externally live as if you are on fire act as if you're on fire and you will be the ideas or liberals live by avoda turn up that music turn up that fire inside drink that cup of coffee get pumped get psyched wake up and you will feel it that's how that's how the shell the barrier the clipper that's how it will fall so there's something that's raging inside you there's something that's going to wake up on a friday it could either be anger and rage at your spouse or your child who didn't do the little that you asked them to all i asked you to do is set the lights all i asked you to do is collect the lego all i asked you to do was take out the garbage all i asked you to do was bathe the kid all i asked you to do is set the timer that's it and when a person doesn't or didn't do it on the timetable we expect then we find that fire we find that energy to get angry to yell to scream to have conflict you can't get angry when it comes to shabbos so there's fire this rage we're capable the question is how do we channel it and how do we direct it are we on fire for shabbos or are we on fire in trying to get ready and scrambling shabbos and now that you've washed off we've rinsed off we have purified we've immersed we've scrubbed away the clipper we've scrubbed away that barrier we've scrubbed away that shell we've scrubbed away the negative residue the stains the dirt that's come upon us by what we watched or said where we went or did what happened in our week now that we've been cleansed now we're ready to change into our big day shabbos now we are worthy now we have the honor of doning of putting on the big day shabbos so we'll leave it there for this week next week we pick up with nero shabbos preparing the candles and preparing to light them as part of turning friday into shabbos until next time my dearest friends stay happy stay healthy and