Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #66 - My Soul's Best Friend

[Music] good air shovels everybody welcome to turn friday into arab shabbos there is no friday there is only arab shabbos get excited shabbos is coming sponsors sponsored series is sponsored by our different men and supporters fishermen it's close to higher of capacity this afternoon's class in particular today's shoe is sponsored anonymously refused to the siren is coming it is time to get ready for the shabbos we continue beyond richard morgenstern who has been preparing us for arab shabbas giving us the mindfulness the intention the thoughtfulness that we're meant to have friday is not just friday it's not like every other day of the week and we're not winding down the week in order to disconnect and turn off we're turning on we're getting excited we're getting energized we're getting electrified all that hard work all that perseverance all those hours all that toil all that sweat all those tears are for shabbos so shabbos is not the time to pass out shabbos is not the time to collapse shabbos the time to come alive to have conversations to sing to learn to play to read the dhavan shabbas is what we live for shabbos is a taste of that world to come we left off last time ravichamed was reminding us that friday can be a day filled with tension with conflict with anxiety with a to-do list often we come up short and often we beat ourselves up friday we can become despondent or broken but then we are being defeated shabbos we have to come into shambles with a smile and with joy and with happiness we have to permeate the atmosphere permeate our homes permeate our family no matter what's going on so you know when we failed we failed when we lose our smile but even if we didn't get through our whole list and even if things didn't go exactly the way we wanted and even if we didn't get everything done that we wanted as long as we can come up with a smile we've been matsliach and then in fact we have succeeded so it brings us up to his section where he talks about kabbalas shabbos peregdala yom shishi friday we talked about the mindfulness of cutting nails the mindfulness of shower and getting dressed all the components and aspects the mindfulness of the mineral thereof shabbos many discard dismiss throw away that is the holiest opening of the whole week he said so that brings us to kabbalah's shabbos shite madregos at the beginning so now at the entrance at the beginning of shabbos we finish and we begin to sing you did nephesh many shows have the custom the minute to sing you did never some don't no judgement either way but you did never ask the great kabbalists fat 16th century such a beautiful composer wrote to say for haridam and he wrote this beautiful pier that we sing you did nephesh friday night shall i shoot us some sing it at every meal you did nephesh those words themselves they mean so much to me you did nephesh the friend that you did is a friend or you did as a confidant or you din is a mate that you did of my nephesh you did nephesh we begin to sing a love song to shem a love poem to the almighty to god and we describe god as the adid nephesh all week long you know who our friend is all week long our friend is the stock market our friend is the bank account our friend is our car our house our friend is making more money our friend is social media our friend is technology the news all week long our friends are the things that feed our goof they feed our body and we need it we need material health material success material well-being but comes shabbos and we turn not to the did of our goof we turn not to the dear friend the confidant the mate of our body we turn to the nephesh shabbos is defined it's characterized the central part of shabbos is singing friday night we begin we transition from the hustle and the bustle and the chaos of the week to the serenity and tranquility of shabbos and what song gets us there you did nephesh who is the yadid nephesh who is the best friend of my soul it is my kind and compassionate father hashem you're my best friend you are my soul's best friend maybe my body doesn't see you as a best friend because my body craves all kinds of temptation desire that you hashem say no to so for my body it perceives of course you're my body's best friend too but my body sometimes misperceives you're not my friend you're the enemy you're putting boundaries restrictions gadoran you're not letting me have unfettered access to all the joys and pleasures i want for my body this week's power shift to keep kosher for my body i have to keep shabbos i want to go to the beach in shabbos i want to eat whatever i want to eat whatever i want i want to pursue whatever pleasure i want my goof doesn't feel that god is its best friend doesn't get that god is it's wrong but doesn't feel like hashem is the body's best friend but hashem is the best friend of my soul yid nefesh the song is so beautiful every line so penetrating it's so meaningful and that's what provides the transition we go from running into shul catching up to minha still putting on our ties still tying our shoelaces we're running into shabbos barely ready and we sing you didn't we take a few deep breaths and we restore our neshama through nishima we restore our soul through those deep breaths and we breathe the breath of life we come back into the very man was created that's when we were created on friday and how were we created god breathed life into us that is how we were created god animated us he brought us to life by breathing so take some deep breaths a show should look like on a friday night when minika is done and we're going to be again you did nephesh it should be a room of souls on fire it should be a room of people taking deep breaths deep breaths slowing down the heart rate slowing down the pace of life smoothly sliding into shabbos the soul is restored the soul is nourished the soul is revived the soul is on fire and this living soul remembers who its best friend is all week long it doesn't have contact with its friend all week long we're working all week long we're we're fighting all week long we're struggling we're surviving but come friday night i take those deep breaths on the day that celebrates the anniversary of the creation of man friday and we recreate ourselves through those deep breaths in the shama our soul nishima through our breaths colonel nishima ta'alaka we praise hashem through our deep breaths and then i start yadid nephish and now that i've restored my soul through the deep breaths and now that i've left behind the weak and i've disconnected from technology and i let go of the disappointments and i am let go of the to-do list and i've entered shabbos a place that is a window into the world to come a place of completeness and wholeness and now my soul is back i'm beginning to feel i'm beginning to download my nishama yasera my extra soul that we spent so many weeks offering 15 different interpretations of what it means you could listen to all the old turn friday and tear of shabbos you can find them on youtube from goldberg.com or yutoro.org and you can listen to all the previous different definitions of an ishami sarah so now i begin to download my series my soul is expanded my soul is on fire my soul is enriched my soul is elevated and now i could sing you didn't fish because once my soul is back my soul longs companionship it long's company it longs to be together with the soul's best friend and who is the best friend of the soul you did nephesh so we sing you did nephesh and you did nephesh accompanies us it transitions us from the hustle bustle the chaos of the weak to the serenity the peace of of the helicoshabas never sing you did nephesh the same way again you did nephesh the mate the best friend the confidant of my soul is my compassionate father in heaven and now that my soul is back in my souls of fire my soul just wants to be connected with hashem even before i begin kabbalah shabbas so victor mayer who doesn't mention any of that i'm adding that but back to richard meyer he says so in a jew on a friday night marks the anniversary of being created every single week on friday and restores that soul to its full glory and has that mindfulness that we are a soul that has a body we're not a body that is a soul we have a soul that has a best friend his name is his name is the abisher his name is our father in heaven we recognize our creator in two different ways the jewish soul is on fire this week's parashat two pasha's ribbon we are children of hashem we have his dna we have his genetics we are his children and as his children we have a special opportunity to be exalted and to be elevated and to be connected in our heart and our soul in our head we can arrive at a higher level we can succeed in understanding we can succeed in palpably tangibly feeling the greatness of hashem we are in his presence on wednesday mornings living with ammuna we're learning about bitter the idea that we are so aware of his greatness that we don't exist in his presence we are absorbed and integrated into him you know a person is in the presence of deal of someone great accomplished powerful you don't think about yourself you're nothing in those moments you don't even notice you have to go to the bathroom you don't even notice you're cold you're tired you're hungry you don't notice your sense of self you're in the presence of something great and that's bitter we talk about that on wednesday mornings living with emunah but it's the same concept here that the jewish soul that is born in lachem benibachuri israel the jewish soul that is god's firstborn that we have god's most intense dna that we are his greatest representatives and ambassadors here on earth we are therefore capable of most intensely feeling his greatness his presence we'll pick up with this next week where the chimera goes on to talk about on the one hand we are distinctly have jewish souls and on the other hand we are part of humanity of civilization society as a whole and we feel and connect to hashem on both those levels and that's represented in the themes of kabbalah we're trying to feel and restore and reconnect with him at the end of that week never sing it the same way again maheliga friends the covet shabbos kodesh it's not friday it's heir of shabbos let's get ready to have the greatest the happiest shabbos of our lives [Music] thank you again to our sponsors if you'd like to sponsor a future episode future sheer brsonline.org slash sponsor bsonline.org sponsor before schleimer was so shy let me see you all the way from parkland i hope you still have the moves of the holy shabbas everybody a happy healthy a holy shabbos enjoy the weekend with your you did nephesh enjoy a special 24 hours with the avaracham until next time stay happy stay healthy stay holy