Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #57 - Run Into the Arms of Shabbos

[Music] uh [Music] welcome back to turn friday into arab shabbos very first week they were allowed to play music again i was debating what music to play whether we should be playing or normally festive exciting the cover chat is kodesh but as this friday this era of shabbos is different because of the horrific tragedy the jewish people suffered and continue to suffer the imam and i'm playing is actually what was being sung in merone last night the crowd in meron sang animan shortly before it dispersed and that terrible tragedy and that terrible tragedy occurred and so we begin now with lakovich kodesh the festive even though we're allowed to for the first time have music again but the very song and the very words from the very mouths of the 45 who are no longer who's parting breath without even knowing it would be saying and recited on imam and i want to thank our generous sponsors of the turned friday into arab shah bashir mending sipura fishman foreign memory of rabbi lord jonathan sax or viacourt david aries thank you for your generosity and what can we do as absolutely broken as we are as devastated as we are but shabbos is upon us and shabba's demands even in the middle of shiva shabbos does not break shiva it's not incompatible the feelings of mourning and grieving and loss and devastation and simultaneously simultaneously the feeling of shabbos to immerse ourselves and to find comfort in hashem a person goes through a difficult circumstance a person's scared or afraid a person experiences challenge or loss they run into the arms of a loved one a mother a father a family member they find comfort by running into the arms and the embrace it doesn't make the challenge of the problem go away it doesn't heal the sick or bring those who are no longer here back to life and yet being in that embrace brings a comfort of strength and shabbos is the embrace of hashem and so as lak is coming to a close a horrific a tragic alignment that for ever now will commemorate not only the eurozone or shimon bar yochai but the euro site of 45 individuals who tragically and seemingly so unnecessarily lost their lives we run into the embrace of shabbos shabbos holds us and comforts us and though it doesn't make anything different and doesn't make the problems go away but we run into that hug into that embrace to find that comfort to find that strength and to find that solace the light of the bonfire that was lit last night is about to go out but it merges right into the light of the shabbos candles that will light shortly the shabbos candles that are meant to illuminate and to warm showers candles that are meant to reflect the soul that are meant to reflect the shalom bias so returning to our study of morgenstern who was in meron last night lighting the bonfire bayam durachacha talk to us about the cavanaugh the intent the mindfulness one is meant to have when lighting the shabbos candles that are said to us that one should be careful and vigilant we light that candle it's not only the physical light that we're bringing into the home but it's what it represents it's the metaphysical the metaphorical light it is the light of seeing with clarity as a light of belief in faith it is the light of strength and of comfort and so the light of the lag baomer bonfire merges as by like omar ends merges right into the light of the shabbos candles as i wrote in a message earlier today i encourage and urge everyone when lighting those shabbos candles tonight to think not only of ourselves and our family but to think about that those candles those the shamos those 45 their families the hundreds of sons and daughters and brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers of wives of those 45 who are not spending shabbos together with them and to darwin for their strength and for their comfort we continue to be it's a common occurrence it's a very very popular thing that on air of shabbos we encounter many challenges all week long we work hard shabbat says thank god it's friday shabbos is meant to be the day of relief she obviously let go shabba is about to finally be the weekend and yet to the shabbos observant jew when there's so much to do and to get ready and to prepare it's filled with nicionos with challenges not the challenge that we have this week this friday miss hashem we should never have such challenges again of the news that we received last night and this morning but the challenge is bemidji people are quick to get angry to lose their temper and lose their cool what do you mean in shop what do you mean set the table what do you mean you set the candles what do you mean you haven't showered why don't you help why don't you kick in why are you home earlier more on time and the needs of the character trait the quality of sadness the end of a week that didn't accomplish or achieve what you hoped the end of a week that might be filled with a sense of shame the end of a week which is filled with a tragedy hello it can cause a person to think you know i've been thinking about and preparing and longing for shabbos so right now friday i've been thinking about shabbos's last moza shabbas from the moment i made abdullah last month say shabbos i've been looking forward all week long sunday monday tuesday omarish on the show was shane in the shop my whole week revolves around shabbos my shopping my preparing my cooking my inviting it all revolves around shabbos how could it be all week i'm looking and longing for shabbos and friday the closest i can get i feel the saddest or i feel the most angry the most frustrated i face the most challenges um why am i at my lowest point when i should be climbing to my highest of allah the truth is exactly the opposite of specifically the closer we come the closer we come to holiness to sanctity the closer we come to disconnecting and connecting to what matters the closer we come to returning shabbos la chaves means shavas means to rest at the core of shabbos is to rest but you know the other root of the word shabbos is is to return to return our sanity and to return our sanctity it's to return and to recalibrate and to reboot to get back to where we were and we are preparing each shabbos emur tough this year 2021 this shabbos looks like no other on the heels of like omer and in the under the cloud of a horrific tragedy this shabbos is unlike any other aza so the closer we come in the more we're on the cusp of an opportunity to break through to achieve to reboot to restart to climb the bigger the challenge we face zelu it's equal whenever we have a yetzeratov there's we have a positive momentum and opportunity there is a an absolute obstacle that stands in our way and tries to knock us off course and therefore every friday when we should be on our way to our highest high when we've been climbing all week in anticipation and excitement and enthusiastic for shabbos often we feel we're at our low aravoda our effort our work our mission our mandate is is to not ever subscribe to the mistaken notion that there is anything in the world other than god ain't owed milwaukee he is all there is so how do we make sense of a world if he is all there is to think that there's some other power why do we get angry why do we get frustrated why do we grow sad because we think we're in control and the world needs to work the way we want and the sadness we feel today of course is a authentic a legitimate and appropriate sadness torah recognize the sadness of availus of mourning to not be said when there's an experience of loss of tragedy that's not positive that's cruel that's an understandable legitimate authentic and a healthy sadness but a sadness on an average friday we're not talking about this friday a sadness of exhaustion the sadness of defeat a sadness of shame that is a sadness which is in defiance of hashem in our life at the core of anger or frustration with the other is the ego is the arrogance at the core of sadness is the expectation is the responsibility is the autonomy so when that yields a heroin that altered ego when that evil inclination overcomes friday is a day of ammuna part of our shabbos preparation is faith part of our shabbos preparation is to elevate and transcend the challenges to our faith lollipops don't get angry don't grow frustrated don't assign blame but realize there's hashem there's a master plan of us and to run away from sadness i to immerse ourselves and the image i have shayikanes yaknesla to run into the open arms of hashem to run in the open arms of hashem it's a difficult difficult friday but shabbos some people will say how could we in the face of tragedy shabbos to spend 24 hours with hashem and i say we never needed shabbos more to immerse ourselves in shabbos to feel the hug of shabbos to run into the open waiting arms of shabbos it'll be waiting on the other end we'll hear about more funerals and we'll read more has spayed them and we'll learn more about this tragedy and will hold accountable or pursue the changes to ensure it will never happen again that'll all be there waiting after havdallah on mod says but shabbos we run into the arms of shabbos to find the comfort and the solace the faith that will carry us through and take us the mirth hashem to the other side and so again rather than the khabib shabbat kurdish i leave you again with the music with the video you could find it online of the anima those gathered in meron last night were singing moments before they dispersed and this tragedy occurred and we tap into their words their song the music and the melody to carry us into this shabbos into the embrace of the shabbos with an [Music] animan the crowd in their own last night singing [Music] songs now we enter next shabbos with only happiness yeshua with only good news and only happiness until then stay happy stay healthy