Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #86 - Remember With Love

[Music] good arab shabbos and welcome back to turn friday into arab shabbos i want to thank our generous sponsors of the series of the amenity support officials for kairi basically fredo the member of our jonathan sacks of yakuza are you today's turn friday into arab shabbos is generously sponsored by alan josh geller prairie reformer for esther tahila basa ariel should have a complete speedy a full before slam of good health happiness in all she does among all holy israel here we go turn friday into arab shabbos here comes the siren there it is let his guest started this is no ordinary shabbos my dear friends this is shabbos parshas yiso and shabbos parasha's israel contains the asari sadibros it contains the story of our receiving the torah and the base of rome said about the shabbos parties yes he called it a name is referred to it as shluis cotton we have the holiday of shiva's later in the year shabu is when we receive the torah at har sinai we prepare for three days we get ready we are mindful we're invested we recreate we re-experience we go back in time and we experience the receiving of the torah anew that is the holiday of shubus but this partially israel is a cotton it is a miniature experience that just like has just like the yantath inspires what we read quran betorah minyana de yoma similarly yakriyama what we read impacts the time that we are in so when we read the story of mata torah we read about kabbalah we read about receiving the torah we're back at the mountain together so this shadow is my dear friends we walk to the base of the mountain we see the thunder and the lightning we hear the word of hashem we are back not commemorating or memorializing not reading a part of ancient history but experiencing something in the present this shabbos that is the shiva's cuts on a very special shabbos so in the parasha we have the ten commandments and one of them is zachary we have an obligation to remember shabbos to honor it and that is what we're doing we're turned friday into arab shabbos we're counting down anticipation and excitement it's not a burden the weak is the burden and the payoff is shabbos zakhor remember what does it mean to remember the simple understanding our rabbis interpret zachor means with kiddush at the beginning and havdalah at the end we have bookends there are two units of time there's the vach the weak and there's shabbat shabbas has brackets around it kiddish and abdullah are the brackets they are the zucker they're how we remember they're how we commemorate but in the beautiful lord describes that the word zachar doesn't only mean to remember it doesn't only mean to be mindful it doesn't only mean to bracket off shabbos from the rest of the week he refers us to the word zakhor in the past in the navi year miyahu who talks about haben yakir leafraim zakhor as karen od in that pastor zach mean you see a child for whatever i speak of him i remember him with love with affection zachary has a connotation of i love him i feel for him so the word zachary doesn't just mean to remember the word zakhar means to remember affectionately the word zachar means to love the word zakhar means to cherish to long to connect to desire i think in yiskar yiskar is not just remembering that people haven't forgotten yiskor is loving yiskar is cherishing yiskar is expressing that affection zakhar says the rev is an infinite participle it means to always be in a state of remembrance vis-a-vis always remember shabbos the ramban writes that if you come across an attractive object you find a great piece of meat you find a great uh bottle of wine you designate it for shabbos and you fulfill zuckers yamashaba is the card show during the week zakharov is a country you have to wait till friday night you don't have to wait until you make kiddush but you fulfill zuckerson as the cut show beginning when on moteshabas sunday monday tuesday wednesday when you shop when you clean when you make a a um a menu when you figure out your guest list when you find the devator when you set aside a story every effort every initiative every every nod to shabbos every time he says when we call the days of the week not sunday monday tuesday but the first day of shabbos second day third the ramban says that is a fulfillment of zach we are remembering we're affectionate if you're getting to see your children your grandchildren if you're reuniting with someone you've been separated from you'd only wait until you're together to be excited but the longing the anticipation the excitement the enthusiasm being emotionally invested physically preparing that's all part of it so the rambanza zakhor is not just to remember to experience it when you're there but it's even beforehand in anticipation the myth of socrates lucacho begins in effect on the first day of the week all week long a jew a person anticipates shabbos and urines for it and nowhere at no time is that more true than friday morning when we wake up to the smell and to the music playlist and to a set table hopefully the philosophical idea that lies behind that is the jewish longing for kadusa the jew finds himself says the rav daily in a mundane world and constantly yearning for kedusha constantly yearning for holiness similarly the halal of those we have extending expanding we start shabbas a little early and we end chavez a little late because we don't live specifically we don't live at the detail we don't live at the exact line of sunset and nightfall we add on we stretch it out we prolong it as long as we can a few minutes before and after it's our eagerness to embrace it it's our reluctance to part with it it's an emotional relationship so shabbos is not just we put a check next to we kept shabbos shabbos is not just a set of laws shabbos is not just rules and regulations and minutia and details shabbos is not just tasks and responsibilities there's an emotional relationship with shabbos we should hear the zemer our parents our grandparents and that tune moves us emotionally the tune in shul rashford's benching so much about shabbos lighting the candles making kiddush coming to the table there's an emotional relationship you see that's true also with basamine the rishonim explain that in pragmatic terms the departure of underserved creates a sensation of weakness when we lose that expanded extra on fire in the shama that shabbos gave us we need to comfort and console ourselves we need to overcome that weakness and the basam is the stimulant to revive the jew we pass out we pass out a little bit when shabbos leaves you know smelling salt if somebody passes out you put a little smelling salt under their nose and you revive them you bring them back the smelling salt for the jew is the besan it revives us why do we need to be revived when did we pass out when shabbas left when the sera left us zakhar is expressed throughout the week by longing for shabbos both prospectively and retrospectively we have the anticipation the excitement the build up the planning and then we have afterwards the basamine both are built in prospectively retrospectively to create the zachar not just to remember shabbos but to have an emotional relationship with shabbos shabbos and shemita are characterized as shabbos what is the common denominator withdrawal we own nothing neither are material acquisitions or our creative talents and we demonstrate that by surrendering everything to hashem so six days our parish whatever you accomplish in the six days is yours but shabbos shabbos we surrender everything to hashem it doesn't say you shall not do work it says if you do engage in work the results are not yours the results are not yours they belong to hashem everything is hashems so this is the positive dimension of zachar by withdrawal from allah we surrender ourselves to hashem and we attain a level of kedusa a level of holiness so on the shabbos that is is on the shabbos of kabbalah satoru let us re-receive the mitzvah of shabbas itself let us fulfill zachor not only with kiddish and abdullah not only when we actually experience and enjoy shabbos but the build-up turn the rest of today into air of shabbos it's not friday get in the mood get ready get pumped count down be prepared and enter that emotional relationship with shabbos fall in love with shoppers project a love to our family to those around us to our guests not a burden it's not something that restricts us it's not something we're giving up what a privilege that we have to be able to have this gift this treasure that hashem has reserved from us in this storehouse called shabbos so wishing everyone a holy a beautiful she was caught on a great passage israel a beautiful and a holy shabbos may we attain that condition when we find that sanctity through that withdrawal through that surrender after working hard for six days enjoy the payoff called shabbos stay happy stay healthy and stay holy have the holiest shabbos [Music] shabbos sawyer [Music] 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