Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #99 - Double Shabbos

good air of shabbos everyone it is great to be back together as we turn friday into arab shabbos not stop friday we're counting down and counting up just like we are on the omer to stand against c night together we are counting up and counting down to standing in shabbos together friday is not friday it is arab shabbos when we prepare when we're mindful when we count up and down and when we get ready i want to thank our general sponsors for the turn fighting to er shabbos for the year many of the support of fishman and in is of her below jonathan's sex or yakuza david arya also turned fighting into arab shabbos is sponsored by joshua gold for a healthy and speedy recovery of velvezev and golda who's recovering from a surgery speedy painless and a full recovery our passion this week talks about the observance of shabbos but whether you're listening to this particular or you're listening at some other point the message endures and is relevant nonetheless aparsha tells us and have awe and reverence for my mikta shabbas and miktash go together we've seen this many many times in the torah they go together because what miktas is for space shabbos is for time we have a sanctuary in space and we have a sanctuary in time shabbos is that sanctuary we immerse ourselves in it is that place of refuge with the base of mikdash what today the mikta's which is the jewish embassy whatever chaos is going on in the world around us the peace and the serenity and the spirituality the safety of going to shul it is the spiritual embassy of the jewish people wherever you are you go into shul so what shul does for space in protecting or insulating us from the world a place of refuge a destination an embassy shabbos is for time whatever is going on in our time the rest of the week however many pressures and obligations and responsibilities however along our to-do list shabbos comes and it liberates us shabbos comes and it frees us we immerse ourselves in the time of shabbos just like we immerse ourselves in the space of the bayside mikdash now i mistranslated the pasak it says ashabso side to shimaru and i said observe my shabbos but that's not what it says the word is not shabbasi tishmaru it doesn't say observe my shabbos it says observe my shabba sis there is more than one champis we've shared this idea many many times some say the two shabboses gemark tells us that ilmalay if the jewish people would only observe two shabbosas myanigalan we would immediately be redeemed some say shabbas khazoon and shabbos other shabboses of the year are chosen and picked maybe it just means in succession two shabboses but the insight that means the most to me is the idea to shemo kabbalah yakuza mecklenburg who says shab sosai the plural every single shabbos there are two shabboses there are the list of what we can't do the don't the passive and then there is the active there is what we refrain from and abstain from there is the honoring of shabbos by not doing creative labor that's one shabbos we keep but then there's the kiddush and there's torah and the singing there's the learning and the reading and the schluffing there's the extended time in davening without running or rushing that is the second so it's not too talking about two separate shabboses but with every one single shabbos there are two shabbas but i want to share with you briefly that's all the time that we have on arab shabbas in order to turn it turn friday into arab shabbos i want to show an insight of the great the helicopter who tells us the notion of the two shabboses based on the luchos richonas and the lucho sacheronos they were the original tablets of parshas israel where were given shabbos in the context of zechariahs it commemorates creation god created six days and then he rested he was at peace and we control and create and manipulate the world for six days and then we are at peace and that is one of the themes of our kiddush and our davoning one of the themes that permeates shabbos but there is a second theme of shabbos and that is from parshas vaishkhan on the second set of dibros the shabso side the second type of shabbas and that is the shabbos of zeke there is the shabbos of gracious there's the shabbos of creation and creativity and creative labor and there's the shabbos of liberation emancipation freedom the shabbos of the time what does that mean so listen to the salaam rebel we can't do it justice in our few minutes together but we'll read a few of the sentences nonetheless the highest level is the first dibros and that is we're commemorating creation shabbos comes and we can renew ourselves entirely it is a weekly opportunity and invitation to redefine ourselves to reinvent ourselves who we were this last week how we were thought of the actions the impact the impression the footprint we left we're responsible we're accountable we have to learn from it but shabbos comes and we can recreate ourselves we can reinvent ourselves abria khadasha we're new just because last week was a bad week just because i fell off the handler was impatient with my spouse's children i looked at things i shouldn't have looked at or said things i shouldn't have said or one places i shouldn't have gone to i skipped oven and came late to dab and he talked through davening i didn't go to acharus i didn't learn torah chose to listen to something instead of advaitora just because last week i had a bad week doesn't mean that defines me that's not the new me that doesn't limit me every shabbos comes with an invitation reinvent yourself rediscover yourself start again dream and dream big and determine who you want to be and how you want to be thought of and the legacy that you want to leave time is not just linear time is not just momentum moving along on a timeline out of control going at supersonic speed but rather time goes to the end of one week and the world needs to be renewed the archaic says this and passes baristas on the pasa kivo shavas on that passage the original contract of the world that god gave was six days the whole contract the whole world was given for six days and what happens at the end of the six days the contract expires it's over the world is not meant to continue unless he wills it unless he decides it's worth it and so each week the bria you can't necessarily measure this in science although i'm sure someone can discover a uh a way but each week the bria the nature the science around us is meant to only exist another week at least metaphysically and god intervenes and says your contract's not up it's not over you're not done after six days another week and another week and another week which means shabbos is about renewal and shabbos is about reinventing shabbos is about rediscovery shabbos is about newness and through shabbos by tapping into shabbos by elevating from shabbos by resting on shabbos by escaping the world and experiencing shabbos we can become a brick we can become a new entity that even if you worshiped idols like the worst pagans you were the most egregious idol worshiper but if you observe shabbos you're all forgiven is that simple a whole week like a week long i could do all the wrong things the whole week long i could neglect and abandon the almighty and his will and just shabbos comes and i make kiddush i light candles i keep shabbos and that's it this is the new schoola to get a key in the khala forget my tourism forget all the schools that are out there how about just keep shabbos because the gemara says whatever you've done wrong or wherever you're worthy of a poor uh response just keep shabbos and if you keep shabbos you're forgiven for everything how does that work says the helicopter but you know how it works it works because is who you are on shabbos and for the next week is not who you were last week now if you hurt someone or injured or harmed someone you have to apologize you have to take responsibility and accountability you have to earn forgiveness we're not suggesting that you get a major pardon every week in the interpersonal relationships we have with others however because the almighty created a world that in our relationship with him we have the opportunity to reinvent ourselves so much so that even if you worshiped if you intensely worshipped your russian merusha you intensely worshipped an idol of pagan however you were determined that you experienced shabbos you immersed yourself in shabbos you found and discovered shabbos and you decided to reinvent yourself then you forgive them for everything we're brand new we're brand new that's what ramadan writes about about the rambam writes he's a new person this is not the same person who made that mistake so that is one aspect of shabbos but we said so tishmaru there are two shabboses within every shabbos so there is the shabbos of gracious renewal rediscovery reinventing ourselves but there's also the brain there's the second component of shabbos which is commemorating even when a jew can't climb and he's unable to reinvent and rediscover and redefine himself there's a madriga of the luchos we once before felt we were slaves we once before felt that we were constricted and limited we once before felt that there was nowhere to go and what did hashem do he took us out he intervened he performed miracles he opened the path and we walked right across that sea he created opening where we thought it was closed and shut for good so every shabbos comes in no matter the week that we had no matter how many doors closed in our face no matter how many struggles no matter how many things we confronted no matter how many disappointments or failures don't be down on yourself and don't have low self-esteem and don't feel that hashem doesn't care tap into shabbos escape into shabbos sing and learn and rest and read and let shabbas be what elevates you it's this world is a place of disappointment this world is a place that doors get shut but allah is a place that we see hashem and we feel his presence and we're elevated by a relationship with the divine and one day a week one seventh of our lives we can escape from the here and now with its challenges and its conflict and its crises and its catastrophes and its disappointments and we can tap into may some of us inaudible in a personal gulles some of us experience news or circumstances which create a gulles they create an exile and a sadness and they make us feel down and out and we become helpless and hopeless so the other theme of shabbos if you're not ready to reinvent the other theme of shabbos is zecharith mitram at least set yourself free at least experience redemption and freedom and realize that shabbos provides that so chevra society shmuro i know i miss the music too it's vera i wish we had music i miss it too tishmoro in every week and every shabbos there are two shabboses that we observe there's the shabbos of british and the shabbos of mitzrayim there's the shabbos with the invitation to rediscover and reinvent and is the shabbos with the opportunity to experience a redemption and go out of exile let's tap into both society let's experience both themes and together have a happy the healthy and a holy shabbos