Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #108 - Ov Vey to Oh Yeah

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