Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #89 - A Happy Home is the Holy of Holies

oh yeah yeah it's time to turn friday into arab shabbos welcome back thank you to our generous sponsors mendy and supporter fishman it's christopher hayes gabassi for freedom and memory of the jonathan sacks viacom and david ariel we continue to dive in for a speedy apparently full refuge for esther to hillary bass ariel and carmia ben reza you should hear only good things here comes the siren it is time to get ready for shabes here comes here comes the halo geshabas the cover shabbos kaidish welcome back to turn friday into arab shabbos just to us doesn't happen automatically it will not happen on its own it's up to us the effort that we put in the preparation that we do the attitude the music the song and the setting of the table the shopping the getting ready the transformation the letting go the chuva the willingness to review the week and to plan for the week ahead we are the ones who turn friday into heir of shabbos it's a beautiful insight of the ibrahim the vishnu tsureba and this week's parachute says shiva's yamim is the holy of holies whoever touches it whoever makes contact with it will be sanctified says the vishnutser shivas the shabbos code the seven days is a reference to the seven days of the week and the seventh day which is the holy shabbos the word is a reference to our table simcha table that's filled with joy that's the holy of holies of a jewish week the holy of holies of a jewish home is a shabbos table that's filled with simcha and that's what the pasik is alluding to shabbos table that's filled with fear shabbos table that's filled filled with anger shabbos table that is filled with negativity criticism condemnation shabbos table that is empty bereft of guests shabbos table that talks about topics that divide rather than unite that is a shabbos table which is said which is unholy but a shabbos table it's filled with simcha laughter joy giving doing for one another befilled with song filled with light filled with stories filled with different torah filters whoever touches them is back the whoever is present at a table that's filled with simcha yiktas will be made holy that is the kodesh kadasham of a jewish home so what is the what is the epicenter what is the centerpiece what is the source of joy what is the identity or the definition of a jewish home it's the shabbos table it's not the size the square footage it's not how ornate are ostentatious it's not how big or how beautiful but it's the shabbos table is it filled with guests or do we keep it are we all alone what do we talk about what are the topics what are the themes are we happy are we joyous do we let go of our worry our anxiety our fear are we flying through the meal in order to get into bed or do we savor every moment to be with the shabbos queen to be with one another to laugh to sing to share to be able to inspire shabbos table the mizbeh the simcha that is the kodashika dash and the holy of holies of the jewish home and that is up to each and every one of us we continue with biamd richard meyer morgan's turn on shabbos and he was telling us about the light of shabbos our desire to bring that light of shabbos into the rest of the week when we capture a little bit of that light we can dispel the darkness that is the rest when a jew stands on sunday and thinks about the holiness the sanctity of shabbos then we're able to take the light of the shabbos that was and to bring it into weekday that will be so we make kavdala we don't change out of our shabbos clothings i'm lava malka we extend there's a custom there's a minute we have the practice in our home to take two little candles two tea lights and light them from the havdalah candle before we extinguish before we put out the havdela candle we use the light still of the havdela candle the last night of shabbos to light two candles to stretch and expand to extend into the week into mozai shabbas into what already is yom rishon what already is sante that the week ahead is inspired and formed and animated by the shabbos that was when does the preparation for next shabbos begin the moment this shabbos ends mozai shabbas a second after abdullah we're already getting ready for the next shabbos dishes because with this we merit the coming shabbos to bring that light the light never goes out the lights never extinguish the light builds upon itself we've got to just turn up that knob brighter and brighter and brighter more building on what was that came before according to the manner the level that we cling to god the faith we have in god the bit of the nullification the submission the surrender that we do throughout the week a jew merits to climb the ladder of holiness of shabbos the champions as a sign is a symbol shabbos is a covenant between us and god he didn't give it to the other nations of the world the other nations of the world in fact are forbidden from keeping shabbos it's our secret it's our gift it's our bond it is our affection it's our love it's our rendezvous that is what it's all about that is what it's all about we're reading now the parachutes of the mishkan what the mishkan was in space it was a rendezvous point in space let's meet at a regular location that is what shabbos is in time let's meet at our regular time shabbos is our regular time that no matter what happens during the week no matter how distracted no matter how little time we have together no matter what we become occupied and preoccupied with we go back and meet we rendezvous at our regular time and what is that regular time what is that rendezvous point it is the holy shabbos and we take that light and we extend it into the week we light the candles literally and figuratively so that sunday and monday and tuesday we're still basking in the light of the shabbos that was we're still humming and singing those songs we're still reflecting and sharing those div torah we're still lifted and elevated from those guests we're still laughing from those jokes and those board games we're still rested from that sleep we're still moved by the stories and the books that we read that the shabbos that was brings us into the week that will be and we already begin planning the next shabbos how will we build on it how we expand on it how will we double down on what worked on what was right but now reason i'm a fire baptist the great cabalist he specifies in depth to say the shabbos how we can take shabbos into the week who closed vara and he says the weekday is really made up of two parts so we have the weekdays broken up into sunday monday tuesday which is the extension the end of the shabbos that was and then our vodafone sunday monday tuesday we are protecting we are insulating we are securing the light of the shabbos that was we are still basking in the glow we are still living on the previous shabbos the second part now we go to wednesday thursday friday so seven days in a week the seven to shabbos three days the first three days of the week correspond with the shabbos that was and the next three days the last three days of the week corresponds with the shabbos that will be we prepare we get ready we make space for the shabbos that will be and when we continue we'll talk about day by day what is our avodah what is our mission what is our work on sunday monday tuesday and then we pivot what does our work become on wednesday thursday friday wishing everyone a happy a holy and a healthy a most beautiful shabbos now go turn friday into arab shabbos what's left of it let shabbas find you waiting don't make shabbos wait for you oh yeah yeah yeah [Music] come on