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Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #108 - Ov Vey to Oh Yeah
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good arab shabbos wishing everyone a
wonderful arab shabbos and a beautiful
shabbos and that might sound strange
considering that technically tonight
tomorrow are tisha b'av they're tisha
bob they are the most inauspicious day
on our calendar and yet that is the
beauty of shabbos and that is what i
want to talk to you about first of all a
big thank you to our generous serious
sponsor for you my dear friends mendy
and sippura fishman who sponsored us
for afraidal memory jonathan sacks of
yakuza ben david
we had just begun learning the new
reviews but i want to interrupt to learn
a piece by ravr from shore specific for
this shabbos getting us in the mood
getting us ready and getting us to
understand and tap in to the incredible
beauty the incredible energy the
incredible potential the incredible
possibility that is shabbos this is
considered by many by some by most of
the holiest shabbos of the year the
olive straw the great opterov wrote
about this shabbos that it's greater
than shabba shubha that it's greater
than shabbos i got all that it's greater
than shabbos of rosh hashanah that for
these 25 hours of shabbos khazon this is
the closest we can feel to the ribona
shalom this incredible possibility why
why is it so special the jose of lublin
zerotz that we observe the shabbos
khazon from start to end is an acerozone
you know before a couple separate before
they go on a long trip that there'll be
distance between them there's an
incredible closeness there's an intense
love there's an intense affection so
beginning our motif is right point at
the end of shabbos we separate and we
distance there's some divide between us
and hashem it only lasts for a day and
yet and yet we feel that connection
that's why he explains tell us that even
though the kruvim the great cherubs on
top of the oron the gemara tells us that
when we were compliant with hashem's
will when we were close with him we
faced one another when we weren't
compliant they faced opposite one
another what would you expect when those
great when those heinous enemies came
and pillaged the baseline dash how would
they find the kruven we would expect to
find them facing opposite and yet there
they were facing each other because at
the moment that you're yoti ladera at
the moment of being punished at the
moment of separating there's an intense
intimacy an intense closeness an intense
longing and a yearning and that is this
shabbos punk'd immediately before we
separate the observance of tishbo
start again mote shabbas first we feel
that sense of a connection that comes on
shabbos khazon the basham to ask the
following question the governor beta
tells us
we've learned this early early on and
turned friday into arab shabbos we
learned
maybe 10 or 15 different understandings
and interpretations of what it means to
have an ishamiyasera what does it mean
to have an additional expanded more
intense soul what does it mean for us
soul to be on fire on shabbos for our
soul to be in tune and shabbos
to have its antennae and receptor up on
shabbos we learn that concept it's not
some newfangled new idea the kumar
itself records this idea of an
ishamiyasera from the word vayina fash
it says that hashem created the world of
yamashvi
on the seventh day he rested
[ __ ] learns from the word
of the nephesh woe for losing the soul
so the bashamta famously asked i don't
understand how do you learn that in
shabbos you have an additional expanded
more intense soul from something that we
learn at the very beginning of shabbos
is that creation
is shabbos begins so of the nephesh from
the word
to rest at the beginning of shabbos from
there we learn about in the shara vai of
the nephesh woe for losing a soul
of the nephesh how do you lose your soul
the beginning of shabbos beginning of
shabbas is when you gain your soul it's
when you get the additional soul it's
not when you lose it the shaykh
lamontage is looking
[Music]
you see all week long we say all like
long we cracked and we moan all week
long we're stressed and we're anxious
all week long we work hard all week long
we say aye it's so late i haven't gone
to sleep oh i can't be an alarm i can't
believe the alarm went off i have to
wake up oh i can't believe how much the
rest to do oh yeah i can't believe the
stress the pressure the challenges
there's a void there's an ive all week
long comes the holy shabbos and we put
all our problems up on the shelf they'll
come back we'll take them down but for
24 hours we get a reprieve we get refuge
for 24 hours we immerse ourselves in a
place that is mainland
a taste of a world to come where we feel
whole we feel complete we feel without
those challenges and struggles said the
hey look at jose blind it doesn't say
nevda nephesh the word fascist not we
lost our soul but read it differently
of the nephesh of the nephesh the soul
loses it's
on friday when shabbos comes in we no
longer feel the sense of oy vey but we
feel the sense of geshmach i'm going to
rest i'm going to sing i'm going to play
i'm going to laugh i'm going to eat i'm
going to enjoy i'm going to learn i'm
going to daven
vai of the nephesh the sense the
attitude of vai the soul has lost vi of
the nephesh the nephesh loses that sense
of
an efficient voice we don't have that
sense of
we don't have that sense of why they say
i'm sure if that's true for every
shabbos if all week long we struggle all
week long we confront all week long we
have anxiety and worry and tension and
fear all week long we're saying oy vey
shabbos comes void of the nephesh we
lose the sense of
and we replace it with a sense of oh
yeah
so if that's true all week long if
that's true for every ordinary shabbos
all the more so it's true for shabbos of
tish above because immediately tomorrow
night the second shabbos ends we sit low
on the floor we start crying and
groaning and grieving oh tomorrow night
right when shabbos ends we immediately
and abruptly transition right into a
state of realizing just how low and
lowly we are how alone we are in this
world all of our problems and all of our
trials and all of our travails so
shabbos is a reprieve shabbos is a
refuge this shabbos this shabbos is a
holy a holy and lofty shabbos this
shabbos we get to lift ourselves for 24
hours before we have to go into that
place before we go into that place this
is an incredible shabbos it's the power
of shabbos that even though tonight
tomorrow are the ninth of and they were
designated as a bachelor as a day for
crying but you could have
shoulda's you could eat meat and wine
all the way right up until the fast
shallow shoot us we don't
take off our leather shoes and we don't
eat it sitting to the ground and we
don't eat egg dipped in ash but shall i
shoot it so you can have kesudas [ __ ]
bashaito just like the meal of [ __ ]
hamelach in this time that shabbos
shabbos reminds us
this shabbos the most powerful shabbos
because the shabbos is the strongest
expression of shabbos that even in
conflict with the tish above even in
conflict with that overwhelming grief
and pain shabbos wins out shabbos
supersedes shabbos lifts us up so yeah
we're scratchy and scruffy we haven't
shaved or taken a haircut we haven't
listened to music we haven't had meat or
wine in nine days we haven't gone
swimming we've been much more much more
restricted in our showering even though
we feel that sense of mourning and grief
feel that sense of loss and tension
we're focused on all that's wrong
shabbos comes and it's all that's right
who doesn't need this shabbos who
doesn't want to immerse ourselves in the
beauty and the intensity of this shabbos
so shabbos khazon in general said
goodbye to hashem which is the closeness
and intimacy the east ruts on
instead of it being the most
inauspicious day on our calendar it is
auspicious it's in its rutzone because
we're about to take leave and this
shabbos more than any va
of the nephesh for nine days it's been
miserable and exactly punked when
shabbos ends we'll have a fast it'll
return to being miserable but for the 24
hours of shabbos
of the nephesh we lose that sense of oi
and we enter a place of oh yeah not evae
oh yeah how amazing how beautiful to be
surrounded to be with others
you could have flowers for the shabbos
you could sing smiros on the shabbos you
meet and drink wine all the way through
shabbos but we're able to tap into and
be lifted if that's true for the shabbos
with is tisha above then that's true for
every shabbos every shabbos so mirth
hashem should lift us and should bring a
good
we should bring a redemption into this
world we should repair all the damage of
sin is the practice of
to love one another and to feel unified
and together with one another and for
shabbos to give us that mean for shabbos
to give us that sense and that taste of
olam haba we're going to take a break
ben as madam for a few weeks after this
but we'll resume please god at the end
the last friday of august look forward
until then stay happy stay healthy