Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #64 - Shabbos Comforts and Shabbos Elevates

[Music] hello [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome wonderful to be back after a little break for the summer we are back and so grateful to be back i want to thank our generous sponsors my dear friends mindy and supporter fishman [Music] and i'm coming from you from an unusual place driving back from a lava a funeral late shop late friday afternoon but it's our first time back turn friday into arab shabba so i pulled over the side of the road don't worry i'm not actively driving right now i want to begin by sharing with you a uh insight about shabbos nakamu and we'll delve back into shabbos and ravincha maya that we had been studying much of this insight i shared in the process earlier this week but it bears repeating as we are getting ready to turn friday into heir of shabbos tells us the jewish people would only keep two shabboses immediately would be redeemed two shabboses and we all go free in the pasture we quoted one interpretation of what does it mean the two shabbos is maybe it's the same calendar shabbos but two components of shabbos but if mendel of betapsk said it doesn't mean any two shabboses it doesn't mean a random two shabboses it means shabbos khazon and shabbos if the jewish people would only tap into would only understand would only be elevated enriched and moved by shabbos hazon we'd get ready we'd feel the pain we'd feel what's missing we would connect and unite and heal the world in shambhala zone and then shavus nakamu we'd feel the comfort and we would be moved by the experiences sitting on the floor and grieving together then miyadnigalam if we'd experience chazon followed by nakamura miyad nigom mendel batapsk it's not randomly any two shabboses it is specifically those two shabboses what is shabbos what is the nakamu concerts everywhere singles events everywhere everyone's relieved and excited to go on the show it's nakamura but nothing's changed there's no based on natasha anti-semitism remains on the rise all the problems still exist so where is the nahamah where is the comfort of shabbos nachmu sarva from sure shabbos my dear friends all week long we are hustling and bustling we're trying to survive all week long we're struggling all week long we're confronting whatever challenges come our way all week long we're looking for hashem everywhere all week long we're paddling trying to keep our head above water but come shabbos shabbos is nakamu shamus doesn't give back what we were missing if a person experienced a challenge or loss during the week shabbos doesn't bring it back doesn't restore it but chavez gives us serenity peace it is a taste of the world to come shabbos is a glimpse it's an insight into a world into a window of a time when everything will make sense when everything will come together when everything will be all right for shabbos for those 25 hours we have the privilege the blessing the luxury the license to take the challenges and put them up on a shelf so whatever is the to-do list whatever's the hardship whatever fears you have about your parents your children your siblings your spouse yourself whatever you're anxious about the delta variant and the rise in the numbers and the news from around the world not on shabbos shabbos we still practice precaution shabbos we're still careful but shabbos shabbos we immerse ourselves in shabbos so says i'm sure it's not just a random shabbos nakamu like thank god the three weeks nine days bishop are behind us but shabbos shabbos is shabbos gives us comfort shabbos gives us solace shabbos gives us strength shabbos gives us the capacity to keep walking put one foot in front of the other when we tap into when we immerse ourselves into the beauty into the wonder of of shabbos so we go back to richard which we had been studying and he was carrying us through the preparations we make from how we cut our nails to how we bathe to how we get dressed to be mindful and intentional with all that we do getting ready because if you know it's funny i just drove to this funeral and it's far away from boca it's deep in miami and somebody at the funeral when i first got there said rabbi how'd you get here i said you know i don't have any idea i put it on waze when i left i made a series of phone calls and i pulled into the cemetery and i have absolutely no idea the sawgrass the turnpike i don't remember which route i took that's not a good way to live life one should be mindful i was distracted by things i had to do but i share it because it's a metaphor how often in life do we show up we arrive and we forget exactly how we got there we're forfeiting the journey and we get to that destination it shouldn't be that you come to school friday night and you don't remember friday friday wasn't heir of shabbos it was friday we forfeited we lost we conceded in the beauty and the serenity of getting ready for shambus so friday takes in many ways more intention more carvana more mindfulness than the other days of the week sunday through thursday can blend and bleed into one another but friday we wake up friday it's no ordinary day friday's heir of shabbos the sights the smells the aromas the flavors the to-do list what we have to do to get ready when i shower on sunday through thursday it's hygienic i'm getting ready for work and maybe even therapeutic but when i shower on friday it's like a chat with kodish friday i shower we spoke about where rohit it's rosh of agupho we are not only cleansing our body but we are evaluating and purifying and cleansing our soul we're not only getting off the dirt and the filth of our body when you come back from a funeral in florida in the summer the sweat from our body we are getting rid of the contamination the impurity of our soul that's the mentality that's the attitude that's the mindfulness of the shower of the cutting of one's nails of getting dressed in one shabbos clothing and the list goes on so what we've begun as richard meyer if that's true for all friday it's true for arabs for many people is a throwaway prayer you're rushing you're running either you're running to light candles or you're running you're still making your tie you're still tying your shoes when you come with the shule another shabbos and boom you deposit a mirha you discharge aminha you're lucky you're happy you're relieved if you even get in a minifi says richard meyer you are losing a wonderful incredible opportunity it is the culmination it is the completion it is the last feel of the week um we are climbing and ascending and we're getting to the highest place of the whole week that minha is not the least important prayer of the week in many ways it is the most important prayer of the week so organize your friday be ready count down and when you get to that minha usually you don't have a cell phone on you when you get to that military shop as you come to shul and so there is no technology there is no distraction you're getting ready but all you have to remember is who you're supposed to bring home for the friday meal that's all you have to remember also not always so easy but that milk is so critical this is a great avodah a great effort a great job a great work we have la los alamos we are climbing ascending ascending ascending we're going to go home the angels are going to escort us home friday night we're going to walk in the door we're going to have a helicopter holy a beautiful shabbos meal we're not going to talk about narushki we're not going to talk about things that divide us we're not going to talk about things that bring us down we can only talk about things that uplift us how do you climb that ladder to get to a place that when you arrive at the shabbos table you're not carrying all the weekday into it you're not carrying all the baggage into it how do we come to the shabbos table and at the shabbos table there's a purity so we have to climb you go from minha and he's going to take us through kabbalah shabbas he's going to take us through he's going to take us through saying good shabbos to each other he's going to take us to coming home with the angels but it begins with that pivot is that transition point is that springboard that enables us to get ready it's all about putting our game face on so when we come into shabbos we have our game face we are ready to go views what did we leave incomplete during the week what mistakes did we make what promises did we fail to fulfill minha we think about we evaluate we take responsibility minha we repair so that we come in feeling whole the sake of to repair and to elevate it all by becoming determined by becoming focused medical we think about what kind of shabbos table do i want to have what do i want to be off the table tonight what do i definitely not want to talk about certainly mahlokas anything divisive but also anything that's negative and what are the topics what is the agenda i do want to have at my shabbos table what will i not tolerate and what will i invite and what will i welcome what do i want my shabbos table what songs shabbos songs can i sing how many songs can i sing these are the agenda of mirka that miracle we're climbing climbing climbing climbing climbing climbing that ladder so we come to the shabbos table we are in the highest and the holiest place but we find this in a few places of trilla which we will pick up with please god next week with revlochemire where we can tap into minha how minha can become that springboard that transports us into that other world called shabbos it takes us from heir of shabbos to the place that's called shabbas great to be back together for turn friday into arab shabbos wishing everyone a holy and a happy and a healthy shabbat [Music] get ready for shabbos shower get dressed haircut shave get the food ready mindfulness with intention turn friday into the holy arab shabbos you should come to the table and the holy shabbos here comes the siren shabbos is coming and they happy holy and healthy shabbos everyone