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Arab shabas but it is not Friday. Today
is Arab Shabas. We're turning our Friday
into Arab Shabas. thinking very much
about our brothers and sisters in Israel
dominant that everybody is safe and
secure in a sweeping sweeping victory
over our evil enemies. I want to thank
our sponsors turn Friday of Shabas
series sponsored by dear friends Meny
and Fishman
Freel in memory of Mendy's father and in
memory of Reb Jonathan Sax
today's turn is also sponsored by the
Ellis family in honor of Steven Ellis
Zasha Ben Schlommo Lev on his first
yearite. Thank you to the Ellis's for
all of their generosity. I want to share
with you a beautiful teaching connected
to this week's para but really relevant
to every single week from Ravk Ravk
writes in his Shabas he writes a very
very beautiful thought a beautiful
thought about Shabas Shabas's role
Shabas's place why we long why we look
forward why we need why more than the
Jew has kept Shabas as has been said
Shabas has kept the Jew he writes
the treasure the secret to our nation
A life that is straight, that is good,
that is appropriate for righteousness,
peace, serenity, tranquility,
if we want to be able to live a proper
balanced, calm, happy, serene,
spiritual, a real existence, who we
should be, our best version of
ourselves,
The life of the weekday struggles to
realize that potential. Who we are on
the weekday where we're running and
we're doing and we're going and we're
accomplishing and we're achieving all
week long. We have to-dos and tasks, we
have errands, we have responsibilities,
we have bills we have to pay, we have
worries, we have anxieties all week long
that the life of the weekday, it's hard
to actualize and fulfill the best
version of ourselves individually and
collectively.
That life, that frantic life, that
frenetic life, those responsibilities,
that noise, that life of the weekday, it
blocks, it obscures, it covers up that
deep godly soul.
And it it blocks the rays of light.
We need some margin. We need some space.
We need to breathe. We need to think. We
need to reboot. We need to reset. We
need to be able to come alive. You ever
feel overwhelmed? You ever feel run
ragged? You ever feel you're running so
fast? You ever feel there's so much
noise? There's no quiet. There's no
margin. There's no space to think, to
be. Shabas represents that space. Every
week there is an interruption. Every
week there is a break. Every week
there's an introduction of margin and
space and quiet. And that's where
breakthrough happens. And that's where
our best selves come out.
The individual shakes off shakes out the
weekday life.
We begin to break free from those
shackles, from those responsibilities,
from those weights that are holding us
down. We begin to break free.
No longer are we pursuing and chasing,
getting everything's done, getting to
inbox zero, making returning all those
calls, fulfilling all these tasks. Now
we're able to really release and express
and connect with the depth and the
authentic and the most real part of who
we are.
Says the chabas comes and it is the sign
or the symbol. It is the o between us
and forever.
This is the sign you're part of the
Jewish people that all week long is not
the reality. All week long is not what
we're working towards. All week long is
not our best selves, our most real
selves. It's shabas. The payoff, the
payday, all of that is to get us to
shabas. Shabas, we recover from the
negative effects of a week of
materialistic and physical world that
often weakens our best selves, our
purest selves, our genuine inner
essence. Shabas is that sanctuary. It is
that place. It is that shelter in time
that we begin to feel our balance, our
wholesomeness. Our souls can reconnect
to our true source and can rep with
aspiration who we could be, who we want
to be. Cook writes, I read it to you in
the English, the pressure of growth and
the perfection of life requires
actualization. By providing a space in
which to take a rest, shake off the
bustle of everyday affairs, the
individual can recover from mundane
living at frequent intervals. It's
called shabas bashabasa.
That's our mission. That's our task.
That's our responsibility. That's what
we're trying to do. That's what we're
coming together for. That shabas is not
we collapse. Shabas is not exhaustion
and Shabas is not just resting up for
the week that will come. Shabas is the
goal. It is the essence. Shabas is the
most essential. Shabas is the most
authentic, reflective version of who we
are. The weekday version is important
and we have to find Sha Hashem in the
mundane and in the material and in the
weekday. We have to find him there too.
But the weekday is not the most
authentic version of who we are. It's
Shabas. So here's our homework. turn
Friday into Shabas this week by
beginning to transition on Friday by
beginning to come out of that weekday
version of who we are into the Shabas
version of who we are to disconnect from
that materialism and the mundane and to
enter that world of spirituality of
reconnection to disconnect from what's
temporary and here and to connect to
what is eternal and immortal what is
forever we do so with a tremendous
awareness that our brothers and sisters
please God they won't it will be over
but may spend Shabas running into
shelters and out of shelters and very
much in the forefront of our thoughts,
of our of our hearts, of all that we
are, we recognize and we respect, we
admire and we thank for being on the
front lines of Jewish destiny and of the
Jewish future in our Jewish homeland.
And so this Shabas, this Shabas for
ourselves and for those who will spend
it running in and out potentially, God
forbid, let us lean into Shabas to be
our most authentic and our best, our
most lasting, our greatest. that the
payoff of working all week is to be able
to find that margin to take that
vacation to make that space to find that
quiet without the noise and to
rediscover who we are our dreams our
best selves our greatest relationships
our deepest connections to do that on
Friday already begin that transition
which can't happen in a sudden but has
to happen gradually to turn our Friday
into Shabas to have a holy happy a
healthy and a safe and a secure shabas
filled with besus to Yeshua vamos Oh
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