Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #88 - Bringing the Light From Shabbos to the Whole Week

a good mayor of shabbos everyone welcome back to turn friday into arab shabbos tremendous gratitude to our series sponsors for the year dear friends mandy and super fisherman for the freddell memory of barbara jonathan sacks it's time to turn friday into erev shabbas welcome back yet again at our favorite time of the week it's not friday it is erev shabas the calendar may say friday but in our minds and our hearts and our souls when we wake up it is not friday it is erev shabas we can feel it we can smell it we can taste it we can see it with our very eyes and the way that our home looks in our attitude in our approach in our schedule every part of friday is counting down and getting ready working backwards we want to be greeting shabbos not have shabbas waiting to greet us we're waiting for her she's not waiting for us how do we have to work backwards to turn friday into arab shabbos means to know this is what time shabbos is here's when i want to be ready that's when i want to be ready here's what i need to do x if i want to do x here's what i need to stop doing work or here's where i need to be home or here's what i need to be planning but working backwards to organize and to be able to gain it all we're going to start a new part of a new chapter and ravicha meyer morgan sort of it's like mayor morgenstern's wonderful work via his pamphlet which is a precursor to the book coming out on shabbos here's the key shabbos is supposed to be rejuvenating it re-energizes shabbos is the payoff it's the mccormack of the source of all blessings there's a light and we want the light to illuminate we want the light to brighten we want the light to be able to elevate us not just on chabas but all the days of the week various that are weak and our lives revolve around shabbos shabbos is not a fake version of ourselves it's not that the real version of ourselves is interacting with muktsa and doing malacha and on the phone and driving in the car and on the computer and shabbos is a fake version of ourselves some ambitious idealistic aspirational version of ourselves for 25 hours we pretend to be something we're not because we need to disconnect because the torah tells us shabbos is the real you shabbos is the real us the real us is able to be lost in our own thoughts the real loss is able to spend time with hashem with the people around us with ourselves the real us is not in a rush the real us is not going through a to-do list the real loss is not serving our task master of technology or whatever else in our lives the real us is the us we experience on shabbos the shabbos table the show was conversation the show was down in the show is miros shaw's nap the show was reading that is the real us and now we go back to work the rest of the week to be able to earn the next shabbos so that's the light when we in fact can extract from a shambis each shabbos connected to its parsha its theme its lessons each shabbos based on the guests that we had or where we were a guest each of us the drusha that touched us that impact us that stimulate us to think each shabbos the parasha we read each of us the stories we told each other's mirrors we sang each of us the games that we played they're supposed to change us and transform us not for shabbos but carrying us into the entire rest of the week that light should shine and it should illuminate foreign's already said that the person who makes an effort who works on arab shabbos eats on chambers we all know this empirically we know this physically we know that if you didn't shop and you didn't cook it inside the table if you didn't shower in a change you have nothing to eat then you're dirty that in order to be able to enjoy and benefit from shabbos then you have to prepare before shabbos unconditionally there is no holiness there is no sanctity without work without effort and this is a key lesson that the arizona the great capitalist the great mystic the arizal he would bang the whole week you're still talking about did you hear what i heard a child shoot us did you feel this miros did you hear the kedusa mustafa did you connect with that yin at the kiddush the whole next week we're still drawing from we're still living in we're still on a high from shabbos kadusa we are trying to embrace and grab on and hold on to what we got out of the previous shabbos to what we got out of the previous jobs this is what our effort is for this is what we're working to this is the way we are connecting when we live when we're animated when we're dynamic because of the light of shabbos and it carries us into the whole week so sunday's not oh thank god it's sunday i get to recover from shabbos sunday i'm still riding the high sunday i'm still riding the wave of shabbos and monday i go back to work re-energized recharged re-inspired by shops um we have to know that all the outpouring and all the flow of blessing in our lives comes from shabbos how we spend shabbos what we talk about on shabbos what we experience allow ourselves to experience on shabbos and this light can be found and felt all the days of the week and we're going to go through that because the arizona provided that what's the theme of sunday and monday and tuesday what inflection point what transition happens on wednesday i was away with my family and we were somewhere in a shul last week yeshiva week and it was a wednesday evening we came out of minneapolis my whole family was there with us and my wife heard me say to somebody have a good shot so after she said to me it's only wednesday what's the earliest point why are you starting to wish someone a good shabbos already on wednesday so i said what do you mean we said look around this morning the in the um wednesday is already the air of shabbos so sunday monday tuesday you're still coming off of the previous shoppers that's why you can make abdol until tuesday if you fail to make it earlier wednesday thursday friday is already erev the next shabbos that's why we say lahu narana at the end of the show yum on wednesday mornings so starting wednesday you could say have a good shabbos until wednesday you say how was your shabbos we feel that light was so we take shabbos into the week you know when you run away from a vacation when you run away from a simha then you show that you didn't really enjoy it you didn't really appreciate it you really want to be there but when you make an album when you keep looking over your pictures when you keep talking about and reflecting on what it was like when you take the light and that experience the energy of it into wherever you go next then you really appreciate it you really enjoyed it you really wanted to be there kasih we sanctify the weekday with the holiness and the sanctity of shambles when you announce that that all the essence everything is really the light of hashem is gala basham is bizarre instead of the week being profane and secular on mundane the week is elevated and transformed we're getting ready we're preparing we're still living and inspired we're implementing and we're executing on what we learned and experienced the previous week we could transform our entire week we can transform our entire lives from shabbos bazuya shalom this is the light of the shabbos that was so instead of we just repeat the same chapters over and over and over again the chaba said 50 is the way it was when i was 40 is the way of 30s the way it was when i was 20 is the way when i'm five years old it's the same boring shabbos the same toons mirrors the same looking at the clock is it over yet or is it not the same shabbos over and over again does one shabbos build on the previous one am i growing am i building am i expanding is shabbos just like building blocks one on top of the other kakashi on the hoshide when on sunday shabbos is not the rear-view mirror shabbos is not behind you sunday you haven't made havdallah as a machita shall barzel it's not a barrier a wall you haven't broken off from shabbos but someday you talk about shabbos what'd you think of the meals what'd you think of the dominating what did you connect with did you read what did you read are you well rested take shabbos with you into the week take showers with you into the week and then shabbos is now informing the next week and now the next shabbos is built upon the previous shabbos and so you're not leaving it behind but you're growing it's a whole other orientation it's a whole other attitude it's a whole other way of living it's incredible when you're doing it when you taste it you can't deny it and we'll pick up with this please god again next era of shabbos turn your friday into arab shop this is only a few minutes late get ready be ready let's find you waiting and take on a ritual which reflects your excitement what are you reading what are you learning where are you going to be ready for shabbos to turn friday into arab shabbos and the happy holies and a healthy shabbos feather ayah shabbos come for your pay and let it bring a healing for all of us have a holy