Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #11 - Go From Galus to Geulah

everyone thank you for being with us again as we transition from the week into the helicopter beautiful shabbos together and we continue to desperately need chavez in this time shabbos continues to be our place of of refuge of escape of of serenity and of peace and as we enter together yet again those who cherish not only shabbos but the heir of shabbos experience i hope everybody's begun to institute torment to literally taste the sweetness of shabbos to taste the food of shabbos even on arab shabbos even before shabbos begins the truth is if there's a week to talk about shabbos and arab shabbos it's this week's parsha because in our parasha and parshas mr we have the story of the moajin whoops sorry and the moab is introduced with an interesting pasak something that you wouldn't necessarily include and capture within the list of modem themselves six days do work on the seventh day it's a day of rest it's a mikura kodesh it's a day that we call holiness how do we achieve that holiness the holiness is achieved by abstaining or refraining from acts of creative labor it is a day of shabbos in all of our in all of our dwelling places if i asked you what is the next yantif that's coming up rabbi simcha friedman the chronological used to say all the time he'd ask his children and grandchildren what is the next jantip what's the next holiday that's coming up so if i were to ask you like what you'd say the next holiday everyone knows on the calendar we're counting like the sphere of summer we're counting towards how they have shivers and yet his answer was you're wrong the next holiday is not chavuz what is the next holiday shabbos every single week we give the holiday and it wasn't an exaggeration this is a list of the moa dim elahh these are my mawadim and which is the first moed the moaid of shabbos is a mode it's a yanta if it's a hag it is shabbat it's the ultimate it is the helicopter it is the biggest it is what we all cherish and what we all wait for the holy holy shabbos it's interesting this notion of mo aid includes within it subsumes within it both yantif and shabbas though yantav and shabbas are diametrically opposed in terms of the kedusha the holiness that we achieve salvation someone famously described the chambers and yant of both we rendezvous we spend intimate time connection closeness we feel the presence of hashem but we do it in two different directions the rav said both are an encounter with an encounter with the divine yant if we encounter the divine how by going to him by going to hashem ali al-aragel the notion of a regal the word regal comes from hair gel we break our habit we break our pattern we break what we're used to we break that mold by we break that mold by going to spend time with hashem the shechina we encounter where you shallam the besan mikdash we are hashem we are before hashem yant of today we associate with our homes the sights the smells the flavors but in the times of of uh the bayside makedash yontep was characterized and defined not by the home but the home going on a trip three times twice a year we would make our way to you we would encounter the shrine of the divine where in his house house shabbos and contrast pointed out is the opposite shabbos we welcome hashem here into our home shabbos the divine the joins us where we are it's the opposite of regal of hair gill yantiffs about break out of the habit and the patterns that you formed rediscover who you are who you're meant to be that you have to get out of your habitat out of your environment you have to go to your shalom go to the base and make this you have to feel your hashem you have to experience his miracles however shabbos is the opposite it's not hair growth it's not breaking out but rather it is finding hashem within the routine it's finding hashem within the weekly activity it's part of our calendar it's part of our schedule it's part of our weekly routine in fact our entire week rotates around shabbos yom marisha on the shabbat shameless abhishel hair girl regal is breaking out of our pattern leaving our home on a journey to discover who we are and who we could be and shabbos is welcoming the divine here in earth here down where we are in shirley and the first relic the rav describes this difference yant if we encounter srinagar going to hashem shabbos we encounter shrina by welcoming hashem to us however what you see by the torah's introduction of elohim they're both called a moed whether we go to him or he comes to us they're two sides of the same coin there are two descriptions of encounter with the divine but from two but from two different places but from two different places one we go to him the other he comes the other he comes to us and the halacha reflects this the home is the center piece of shabbos and here as we continue to quarantine as we continue to have to physically distance from one another as we are essentially isolated to our homes and unable to congregate and gather in shul our homes continue to be that centerpiece of the encounter with hashem and the halacha reflects it everything that we do within our homes to get ready for to get ready for shambas to transform our home a white tablecloth mishna brewer the post can talk about even if you are not going to be eating at home let's say the quarantine please god when it will end and we're invited out you're going to a simple you're not having any meals at home there's still a notion of putting a white tablecloth on your table you're transforming your home to reflect an environment to have a decor of shabbos the fact that we sweep and we clean and we prepare we light the candles to illuminate our home to bring the light and the warmth to our home we shower we change big day shabbos even when we're not seeing others and we're not going out and we're not competing with the latest fashions and trends but we are nevertheless getting dressed up for the shabbos queen yantif we go to hashem but shabbas hashem the shriner comes to us and this is reflected what we sing we're welcoming the pine shabbas a few weeks ago we talked about the image of pine shabbas being the image of putting on our shabbos upon him take off that worry that weekday anxiety the weekday stress take off everything that's associated with the weekday and put on that shabbos punim of tranquility of serenity of calm of confidence put on the shabbos punim of knowing that everything's for a reason and everything will work out and we're going to spend the next 25 hours in a rendezvous with the divine shabbos and yantif both called mawadim both reflecting this intimate rendezvous connection all week long we struggle to find our way we're curious we're filled with doubt or uncertainty or worry we don't see hashem so readily in front of us but shabbos put on that shabbos clothing we put on that shabbos upon him come to that table and we welcome hashem literally shalom we're welcoming his emissaries his ambassadors we're welcoming this the expression of hashem characterized and captured through angels we welcome shalom alaikum into our home shabbos and yantif two sides of one coin both called in mohid so this section of the moa de minar parsha is introduced the very first mahita by friedman was right the very first mauid six days we do work now note the torah tells us six days you do work for the jewish people works not a concession work is not just because we have to work is an ideal work is a value work we do because we believe in it and the work we're doing is towards the tachles when we've when we worked for six days to provide for our family we worked for six days to have a home we worked for six days then the tackles of all that work is shabbos we don't rest on shabbos to have what we need to work we work all week long to be able to be rewarded with shabbos not only shabbos shabbat shabbat song by abstaining by refleeing the ramban on our parasha says on this word shabazon on shabbat that that's why hazal set up categories those who finished the smith cover master to you we resume on sunday night our boko hara we have over 80 signed up it's going to be incredible and we're learning about these topics our rabbis instituted such areas called and amir al-aqm and tirucha all kinds of areas that are not included in the biblical laws of shambhas but the rabbis were trying to create protect and preserve what we call a shabbos atmosphere you know when you were growing up and you wanted to do something and your parents said you can't you said why i've memorized schmidashaba's kilkhosa i don't see it in there that you can't do it and what did your parents tell you it's not shabbos dick you can't do it because it's not shamastic shamastic is not just a parent's excuse to convince you of something you can't do it is a halal concept the way you do things during the week amir al-aqm if we were able to ask the non-jew to drive the car turn on the light turn on the tv check the internet it would absolutely compromise and corrupt our experience of shabbos tyr you're not allowed to extend the extra effort that would compromise your shabbos you're not allowed to have uh loud sounds you can't even put your dishwasher on a timer because it'll produce such sound of the weekday that there's no room there's no area to welcome the weekday into the atmosphere of shabbos that we're trying to create my dear friends my heir of shabbos holy jews it's up to us as we transition as we head into shabbos to create that atmosphere it's something that we have to do by setting up and lighting and preparing those candles by putting on that shabbos clothing by spreading out that white shabbos tablecloth by tasting torment the delicious sweet shabbos food even before shabbos begins that's how we fulfill shabazon it's not just shabbos it's shabbat shabbat son shabbas whether you're ready or not here it comes when the sun goes down you're obligated in shabbos it's not just shabbos at shabbat shabbat that we need to taste and experience that transition we have to go into and enter and welcome shabbos shabbos is not a list of what you can't do shabbos is what you can do you know what you can do you spend time with akersborough with your family you spend time with yourself in thought in song with sleep and learning with reading with darwining slowly and tapping into the best of who you are and what you have we infuse shabbos shabbat shabbat song that is the mirror code dish ravage weissen is haggadah gada on these words not the the fired version of kiddush includes mitzrayim it's from our passage we say the beginning of holiness is free yourself liberate yourself you can't find holiness you can't experience the shrina you're not going to tap into the divine and connect with spirituality and rejuvenate revive your soul if you're not if you're not freeing and liberating yourself if all shabbos you're worried what is the news saying and what is the update and what is the stock and what is the sport score and i'm still tied to the material physical world if you haven't liberated yourself from your to-do list and your tasks and your worry and anxiety if you're still shackled and enslaved then you can't experience kdush you can't experience holiness the divine to get to this side of the moat coin where hashem visits us on shabbos you have to eat and that's why kodash is zechariah that's what the pasik means to tell us the beginning of calling kedusha is liberating ourselves yet see us time is invoking that theme of shabbos of freeing ourselves of setting ourselves free of letting go of the things that are holding back of letting ourselves go of the self-imposed chains of being tied to the things that undermine our spirituality our growth our happiness let go of the worry let go of the uncertainty put on that shabbos punim and tap into not only shabbos but this week tap into shabbat shabbat zone go there's only a few minutes left spread out the white tablecloth put on the shabbos clothing and most importantly before we transition and welcome shabbos take a few moments and put on that shabbos punim i mentioned in the we send out every friday you wake up to a short message about how to turn friday into heir of shabbos with a little snippet from the previous week's time that we spend together this morning what i sent out is the minha there's a minute quote it's based on a gemara to look at the shabbos candles while you're a sight kiddish some say during kiddush others right before you make kiddush you look and gaze at the candles before you say kiddush and the different reasons which are offered why but i want to suggest a reason because the pathway to kedusha to holiness is to tap into the light to see the light the brach in our lives that light illuminates what's in front of us even if we're all alone and it's so difficult to be alone but to see the bracha that you have a roof over your head and food to eat that you have air in your in your lungs that you're breathing and you're healthy if there are other people at your shabbos table the light of those shabbos candles shines on them and you see children maybe grandchildren you see the brach in your life before kedusha trilogy kodesh before you could say kirish look at those shabbos candles and allow it to illuminate your life see the bracha that's right under your nose all week long we see what's missing six days a week we work to fill in what's missing what's missing in our bank account and what's missing in our cabinet and in our oven and our refrigerator six days a week we work to fill in what's missing in the seventh we're whole we're complete there's nothing missing i have everything i need and how do i see it the light of the shabbos candle so bright they illuminate and they reveal what's right under my nose so ghost spread out the tablecloth and get dressed in your finest and put on your your calm tranquil serene calm confident shabbos punan and before you make kiddush tonight look at those shabbos candles see the bracha in your life and tap into the shabbat shabbat have a wonderful shabbos a holy healthy and a happy shabbos thank you good job everybody thank you very much thank you so much thank you thank you good job