Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #94 - Dig Deep

[Music] who is still feeling it from yesterday delivering what a beautiful part of the magnificent purim hope everyone is well and has gas left in the tank for shabbos because coming off of pyramids time to get ready for shabbos turn friday to arab shabbos is generally sponsored by our dear friends mendy and sepura fishman fredo and the memory of our lord jonathan saxophobia thank you so much here comes that siren and even though we changed that clock even though we changed the clock and friday is now longer and looks like it will remain longer for the foreseeable future that's the will of the senate we'll see if the house joins them in making every friday a long friday we'll find out which would be very difficult in the morning but for now we're grateful to have a long friday as we are recovering and walking off purim and getting ready and building up for the heiliga the holy shabbas coming off of one day doesn't take away or detract from the next day in fact that is our obligation that's our responsibility we turn friday into arab shabbos by getting ready by preparing the gemaran chavez tells us would take the head off the of the animal preparing for shabbas rava mala shibuta he would salt the fish ravuna made sagar if one would light the lamps or papa got them these are the greatest rabbis they didn't delegate to someone else they didn't expect or pay someone else it didn't matter how much they had enjoyed purim didn't matter how tired exhausted they were didn't matter how hard they worked they themselves invested themselves because only when we put in do we get out only what we put in we get out the rights themselves in the midfield every one of us no matter how great you are no matter how seasoned you are no matter how arrived you are for everyone one of us to do something set the table set up the candles turn up the light in the fridge do something to make this different day different than others to prepare to be invested to be able to create shabbos in fact the rambam writes and i think this is relevant for us dhaka specifically today as again we are transitioning between one great day today is the great day of shushan purim and of course welcoming the holy shabbas the rabbi writes in the 30th chapter he writes person should organize and set your table even if all you're going to sit and consume there is a kazias an olive worth you're going to barely have anything you're going to scratch the surface nevertheless prepare your table let the home radiate shabbos let it permeate shabbos let it be the light of shabbos you're invited out both meals you're not even going to eat at home at all still put on a white tablecloth still set the candelabra still the shabbos the home should look like a shabbos home and he writes similarly similarly shabbos the fun continues shabbos continues the light the energy of shabbos continues we continue to set that table even though all we'll have is a little bit modest malka we continue to set the table and draw from shabbos cso if the honor shabbos when it comes in and when it goes out both you have an honored guest that arrives you meet them at the front door you're waiting at the curb and then when you're done with the visit you walk them out so you're neither lazy and staying on the couch when they arrive nor are you lazy and sitting on the couch when they leave you welcome them when they arrive and you escort them out when they go and the same is true with shabbos shabbos the helicoshave is the holy shabbas queen we're so excited we have to demonstrate for ourselves for our children that excitement that passion that energy bikinis candles are lit the table is set and the bed is made all this is a way of honoring shabbos we honor shabbos we wake up in the morning yash kimbap says we wake up early friday and we're ready to go so today was a tough day not so easy back to back purim shabbos but that's why today and every day if you're listening to this on shushan purim we're listening sometime in the future but we need to give it our all to be ready and fully invested to prepare the morgan of ram writes he quotes the qadosh who says we see from this gemura that before you buy things for shabbos or when you're preparing for shabbos you say the covered shabbos code dish you're busy setting the table the khabichab is cool dish you're busy getting dressed you're making your thai the cover chat is code dash you're busy putting in the chicken soup the cover chat with code that you're putting up the hot water run you're turning the light off in the fridge the covered shaba is kodesh we will be transformed we'll be changed the atmosphere the aura will be different if with each of these acts of honoring shabbos we articulate we express we capture with words why we're doing it the cover chap is kodesh this is not just a to-do list it's not just a checklist on our fridge got to turn up the light got to do this got to do that got to do the other thing but each of these things there's a notion there's a presence that we're doing it the cover shabbos kodesh the cover chapters kodash writes kamara says showtime was talking to the non-jews of the world who run out of shame only when you work hard on air of shabbos do you have what to eat on shabbos but if you didn't work hard you didn't prepare you didn't invest in arab shabbos then what will you have on shabbos we've quoted this many many times and i turned friday the error of shabbos that it's true not only bagashmi it's not only true in the physical world you've got to shop against the table you've got to cook you got to be ready you got to be prepared because if you're not you will have nothing to eat but it's true spiritually metaphysically if you don't have advaratora if you haven't prepared this miros if you come to don't come to the table with a story if you don't have an insight or a provocative question then what will the conversation be about you know in kadusa there is no holiness without preparation we have to prepare we have to be invested we have to get ready and so even though today is a difficult day it's not difficult thank god it's blessed it's a blessed day but today is a recovery day we're in recovery mode you know sometimes you do a workout you push yourself high intensity interval training and then there's recovery we're in recovery right now and yet it's not a long recovery it's a very short recovery we're about to go back into a high intensity interval called shabbos so get ready because the clock is ticking and even though friday's longer now that we've changed the clock it's not long enough for you to be able to be lazy get ready be ready put in that preparation on the cover chop this kodash when it takes more effort agra the harder something is to do the greater reward in doing it aggra according to the effort is the reward so when you have to dig deep and when it takes more effort and it's not easy and you're not coming off a restful easy way week but you've gotta make another suit that you just came from the purim suda you just organized all the mishloch models and now you're getting ready to clean to make sure the table is set and pristine and has the white tablecloth from shabbos then it takes even more effort according to the effort is the reward maybe we all get a great reward put in that effort the cover chapters and the free looking purim should turn into a freelancer should turn into a good shabbos a holy shabbos a happy shabbos a healthy shabbos and we'll continue to please god next week we sang and danced keep the singing and dancing going this i