Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #78 - Higher and Higher

[Music] into heir of shabbos [Music] the covet shabbos kaidosh [Music] big thank you to our generous sponsors of turn fighting to arab here comes our siren shabbos is coming and we are turning friday into arab shabbos today's turn friday shabbos is sponsored by rebecca khan for a full slam of rafales may the learning turn friday of shabbos turn his third shabbos in the world to a shabbos of complete refua shaba simi lizokuro fuller velveo should have a speedy complete painless before sleima and only lots and lots of nachas okay we continue with meyer on shabbos turning off friday into arab shabbas fridays are getting shorter shabbos is coming sooner we have to be ready earlier and now this is the proof of when we are really shama shabbas not just when shabbos begins but longing getting ready preparing as we wrote in our turn fighting to arab shabba's group that it says that yaakov says in love and guardian he observed shamarti doesn't mean i kept mitzvos he couldn't possibly keep mitos shamati means aviv shamara sadavar he longed he looked forward he yearned for the possibility when he could return to mitzvos to be ashamed of his jew is not on shamas it is the longing the yearning the anticipation before shabbos and we prove that when we say to everybody a getting out of shabbos when friday is not friday it's heir of shabbos and our greeting is different and our demeanor is different and the atmosphere in our home when our attitudes when our entire pasture our face is all different it all reflects shabbos is coming that we long for we wait for and we live for the holy and the happy and the healthy shabbos let's continue one of the foundations of serving hashem says ravichammer to constantly be renewing to constantly be restarting to constantly be refreshing our sense of serving hashem to constantly within ourselves challenge ourselves to have new yearning and new longing and new wishes and new dreams to never feel i've arrived what is my aim what is my goal who do i want to be is my shabbos at 50 years old the same it was when i was 40 or 30 or 20 or 10 i posted i shared earlier this week that um someone sent me a picture of my second grade homish party it's amazing my son looks exactly like i did when i was a kid it's a beautiful thing to see when i saw myself at whatever age i was seven eight years six seven eight years old holding i thought wow i never dreamt then that i have the privilege today of teaching torah of teaching parasha every week and think i hope that my knowledge my understanding my appreciation the depth of parsha is increasing every year jakov kaminetsky said that imagine you give a three-year-old the first pair of sisters it says yelatov and they wear it you're so excited and you sing mazeltov and you are cheering on this little child who's wearing their first pair of tits it's so sweet now at the bar so imagine the kids were in the same little titus now they come down to his puppet it's embarrassing says yelatov now this boy's walking down the aisle towards the zahasan that sits has come up to here and they say yellow toe it's pathetic it's sad the same boy is wearing this little tittis when he's three years old when he's 13 years old and when he's a hustler under the hoop yaakov how many of us do that our understanding of the sitter is frozen in time from when we were a little child our understanding of the partial is frozen in time for when we were a little boy we have to grow we have to advance that's where richard meyer is writing do we have new aims and new goals and new wishes are we constantly raising the bar in who we could be who we want to be who we're meant to be is shabbos the same shabbos it was do we have an understanding of shabbos an appreciation of shabbos do we look forward to shabbos do we prepare for shabbos do we introduce new things to shabbos new things to our shabbos table be they new soul shaker a new silver new delicacies newman hugging new practices new zemiros new diver torah do we have a different new attitude every day god gives us is a new level it's a new us it's a new world and therefore it's a new opportunity every single day is unique and who we are on every day is unique we are different than we were the day before we're different then we'll be the day after that's true every single day all the more so it's true shabbos and every shabbos rabbi when a person understands that the essence of shabbos is the opportunity to draw close to connect tashem is when it comes to god's greatness we have no comprehension we cannot fathom there is no limit there is no end there is no finish line there in sofa madriga there is no finish line there is no end there is no ceiling there is nothing so every day is broken up into its increment every week is an increment and it means that every motes we begin the next week who am i who i'm meant to be what am i meant to accomplish how am i meant to live this week and how am i meant to next shabbos be greater than the shabbos every day and every week and every month and every year to break it down into these increments and think about in those units and challenge ourselves that doesn't mean that we don't also find the ability to pause and to celebrate success we have to mark our victories we have to recognize our efforts we pause to appreciate what we've achieved but we're never satisfied or complacent we never become apathetic or indifferent we continue to challenge ourselves to set new goals and new standards to push ourselves with greater expectations that no shabbas should look like the last are we going to live the same year over and over again and call it a life or does one year grow does it build upon the previous one to never be satisfied associated with what we have becoming even if we've married it a little bit we have to search we have to yearn we have to look we have to push we have to demand more to accept greater light and higher levels in our closeness to hashem and so as we go into every shabbos and as we come out on mozai shabbos to evaluate that shabbos to think about what we extracted from that shabbos how we were transformed by that shabbos and then never to become satisfied what will i do more what will i differently what will i add how will i grow further the following shabbos shifa our goal our aim has to increase it has to grow each and every single week to be show more shabbos all week long to look forward to anticipate to long for it to yearn to experience friday night is friday but as arab shabbos a getting arab shabbos a wonderful and a beautiful a happy a healthy and a holy arab shabbos kaidish [Music] wishing everyone a happy healthy and a holy shabbos see you it's hashem next week is a new you in a new world and a new opportunity fresh and a new day have a healthy happy and