Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos (and Erev Sukkos) #152 - One Big Mixture

good air of shabas good air good to all big thank you to men Fishman sponsoring we are running out of time you got to build your Suka you got to assemble your do Min you got to get ready for shabas and for we're still working on having a good good the cabes so a quick thought this week as that siren comes and it's almost time to get ready first of all we call today not Friday but reason we have the sheir and the series is that we call today not Friday but Arab shabas I want to share with you an Insight from the Z the holy who says the reason we call today AR chabas why is the eve of something called an Arab shabas arus why is it called an Arab the eve of something AR Eve comes from the L on the language of means a mixture because Friday is not Friday Friday is already a mixture of Friday yish and chabas KES when a person is welcoming and greeting and incorporating chabas when a person is already you're taking in the aroma and the flavors to you're tasting and you have the music playing and you already feel the kadha the sanctity of chabas on Friday you turn Friday from Friday into a of shabas it is a t of Friday and it's a is a mixture we start at Friday so which is it or Ines we describe it as both because we're at that transition point where it's AR of chabas it's a taras it's a mixture it's both they're connected so if that's true and every Friday if that's true On Any Given Friday all the more so it's true today this Friday and today is a tar today is a mixture it's an Arab shabas and also simultaneously AR y AR shabas and AR Yan simultaneously we're mixing together Friday the shabas and that means ordinarily we're getting ready for chabas we're singing We're dancing we're cooking we're preparing Tor and ouros and our story but today we also have to get the Suka ready and make sure the lights are set make sure the decorations are up and make sure hopefully hard the weather will hold out we could sit in the and even though we won't take lulan estrog tomorrow we have to make sure our doll meim are assembled for the second day that they're ready to go there's so much to do there's so much to get ready so today is not Friday today's not Friday it's a of chabas and it's a it's a day that's a it's a big CH it's a big mixture between yishi Friday a of chabas a of it's one big T it's one big mixture and isn't that a beautiful thing Can't Get Enough chabas Can't Get Enough Yan but moreover I mentioned tomorrow the first day of sukus this year falls on chabas which means that while we sit in the Suka we don't take the we don't take the four species why is that we happen to be giving a tonight at BRS between on that subject but we don't because you might come to carry the doll minim we don't want to create carrying the doll minim in Israel in it's a fascinating topic but we don't take the L vaness when the first day is on shabas so does that mean we're missing out the answer is you and I we are theim we know the four species correspond the med tells us either with the lul is the spine the esrog is the heart the of the eyes the of the lips we put them together in our entire being we shake in every direction we apply all of ourselves to we don't have the lul ofr but we can still Shake ourselves and that's the article I'll share with you that is the article I wrote this week we have to not only shake the lul vrog we have to turn ourselves in every direction in every direction we Face we shake ourselves our spine our heart our lips our eyes all of it combines all of it's aov all of it is beautifully integrated into one all dedicated to hasm but the mes also tells us that the four me and the species represent four types of Jew and even if often we are separate apart and divided come suus there's an there's a Unity we are united we are integrated there's a Tas there's a chant all Jews are one and the same we are all United as the Jewish people so tomorrow when we're not going to take the do minim we don't take the four species we have to be the four species extra extra applying ourselves shaking ourselves in every direction to be able to feel see ourselves we have to get ready today with that so I want to wish everybody a beautiful air of chabas a holy air of chabas a holy air of yff should be a day which is a Tas a big mixture of the Holiness of chabas the Holiness of Y with the weekday of Friday mix it all together stay happy stay healthy and stay holy