Hear the Song of Creation | Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #238

[singing] Welcome back. [music] [music and singing] Shabas. I want to thank our generous turn Friday into Shabas series sponsors. Fal memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Zaxb today is turn Friday of Shabas is dedicated in memory of my wife's grandmother our babi this is brookstein whose site is tomorrow on shabas and nama should have an aliyah and dedicated in memory of Bonnie Minsky my mutton's mother as well her nama should have an aliyah I want to share with you an idea something to turn our Friday into shabas something for all of us to work on there's a beautiful safer called ben melik shabas Kesh of NS Yehud Minsburg who was the Russ of Yeshiva Masmid. He lived 1943 to 2018 and he wrote a series of called Ben and one of them is on Shabas. One of them is on Shab Shabases and in it he writes the following. One of the aspects one of the themes of Shabas is it is a day of song. It's a day of music. Think about what we say tonight. It's a song dedicated. I dedicate this song to Shabas. It's good to praise Hashem, to thank Hashem and to play music, to sing song to his holy name. All of these are references to instruments and to song. Shabas is a time of song. So why is Shabas a time of song? On the one hand song reflects happiness and Shabas were happy, gratified and fulfilled. Certainly that's part of it. But here the Melik says something which I think is very beautiful and something that can inspire our Friday, our Arab Shabas. The whole universe, the whole world, our world is all singing to Hashem. It's a symphony. Our world is a symphony. The leaves are rustling and the birds are chirping. And whether it's the snow making a sound when you walk on it, or maybe it's the sand on the beach, or maybe it's the sounds you hear of children playing, the sounds of people, loved ones. All of those sounds are part of the orchestra that is playing for why does that play only on Shabas or most on Shabas? Why not all the rest of the week? raise your eyes to the heavens and see who created all this said because we see the everything in creation is singing its own song to God. Every bug, every fly, every chair, every table, everything is singing its song to Hashem. It's tribute to Hashem. From every creation there is a unique and distinct song sung to acknowledge and thank and praise hemd and this one's song is not fulfilled through someone else and that was song is not covered in this one's everyone is unique and distinct everyone sings its own song when was the orchestra complete because you need all the sections the strings and the horns and the percussions and the when were all the sections and all the instruments when was the orchestra complete that it could now play its full song in harmony that was shabas when the pieces were being put into place the picture didn't become clear when you were adding instruments to the orchestra only when it was done does the whole symphony come together when the heaven and the earth and everything was created. Now the orchestra is complete as so shabas therefore is the time the greatest time of that song is on shabas. Why do I share that with you? Because maybe one of the ways that we can turn our Friday into shabas is davka. Even if all week long we don't play music, we don't listen to song, listen more carefully on air of shabas. Get ready for shabas by tuning in, by opening up your ear, by listening a little bit more carefully. Listen. Listen to the birds chirp. Listen to the leaves rustle. Listen to the sound of the wind. Listen to the people, the hum. Listen. Listen to the coffee maker or the engine of your car. Listen. Everything in creation is playing. It's singing its unique song to Hashem. Come Shabas, the orchestra is full. The symphony is complete. The song is perfected. And so one of the ways that we can get ready in going into Shabas to be able to hear it best is to tune in our hearing on Friday. So put a Shabas mix together. Put a Shabas mix and play that Shabas mix. Wake up to that Shabas mix if you can. Set your alarm on Friday morning of Shabas. Every other morning beep beep beep. Friday morning you turn Friday into Shabas by waking up to song by hearing the song singing the song of Shabas. Shabas is a time of song. It's mischie. a time of it's a time of look who created all of this. Feel that connection. Feel that love. Feel your heart open up. And may we always sing the song of sh. [music and singing] [music] It's all you.