Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #114 - A New and Fresh Relationship with Shabbos

everyone we are back with a brand new year turn a Friday into area there's only Arab Shabbos I'll take our generous sponsors of the Year our many support fisherman the memory of our brother Jonathan Saxon oh yeah here comes that siren and we are ready for the halogen the holy Shabbos this is no ordinary Shabbos I know I say that almost every week because almost every week is not an ordinary Shabbos every week there's something special about Shabbos because each Shabbos is only special is special for that week but this is really a special Shoppers this is what we call Shabbos braces we don't call it Shabbos parshus precious we call it Shabbos boracious explained that even though Rosh Hashanah was already a couple of weeks ago even though we've been into the new year already for a couple of weeks in many ways Shabbos braces really is the beginning of the new year this is it this is the first Parsha we rolled that Torah all the way back to the beginning this is all the yamamtovam are now in the rear view mirror people have packed up they've gone home we've cleaned up we've gone back to school back to work life has resumed and even though we only made havdella from yantef on Tuesday night we're literally a few days later many don't want to be shopping and cooking others don't want to be cooking up drushas again and yet shop is boracious this is it everything follows the beginning everything follows the gracious the very beginning so we got to get it together and get excited and we get excited shabba's gracious it's not just shabba's parsh as Bridges his job is British this is the Shabbos of new beginnings this is the Shabbos of fresh start this is the Shabbos of doing it all over again and others explained that each year has its own light each year has its own energy each year we are different we're new we just finished a period of time in which we've promised and pledged to redefine and renew ourselves who are we what is the best of us what are our goals and Ambitions what do we want to try to achieve this year what is it are we going to work on our relationship with an attitude towards Shabbos are we going to work on our trying to learn schlain mikra to review the Parsha the cedra each week are we going to work on our being patient with shabba's davening singing his miros what is going to be our promise our pledge how are we going to be different tuftion pay gimmel how will this be a new us we're not just living that same year over and over again but each year there's a new year and a new us otherwise the only thing that changes is the date on the calendar but it's not supposed to be that way it's supposed to be what changes is us and because it's a new year and a new us we may be reading those same partios but we're reading them from a new angle with a new light for the new energy from A New Perspective this year is unique and distinct it's unlike any year that came before that will come after each year has its own energy to it and therefore when we read the very same partios we sit at the very same Shabbos table we eat the same shop as Foods we sing the same shop as miros but they're entirely new because they're entirely new to us so that's why this week needs anuch to read parsha's braces we didn't have a lot of time to to be marble cedra to learn it this week with yantef taking up almost half the week but we have to bring that attitude of freshness and of newness of that new energy of that new energy because every week we live in the Parsha every week the Parsha is our Compass it calibrates our way it's not a coincidence or random we don't read those parshurs in that time there's always something special we live with it it gives us the Rhythm to our life and the energy of our life so for a Jew to go through a weekend not even know what Parsha it is to not know what passion is the parachute is what helps us navigate it's the ways of our week and even though it's the same parasha but nevertheless it's a new us and we bring a new attitude a new approach to the way that we appreciate and the way that we view it so it's not just Shabbos in the Shabbos boracious it is a new year and a new us and a new relationship to Chavez I'm looking forward to resuming our learning of the new safer ravicha Meyer came out with we read the introduction I'm looking forward to getting into it over the next Fridays together let's just start a little taste of it even though we're still recovering our voices from simchastorah which is the way it should be if you had a voice on mozai it's questionable whether you really had a simple story if you really had a simple story you probably shouldn't have a voice so we're still we're still recovering it so we're on to the eggs says Richard Meyer how can we Merit how do we Merit to feel the light of Shabbos Shabbos is different than every other day of the week it's not just that we have all kinds of laws and rules and regulations not just that we disconnect and detach from the 39 creative labors from the world of technology but there's a different light shamist is a Different Light Shabbos is a different nishama you say we spent so much time defining and talking about so how can we feel it how do we feel how do we practice that Bittle how do we relinquish a nullify our sense of selves and immerse ourselves entirely bask in the light of Hashem the light of shabba's leaning in and feeling a more expansive and a a bigger a broader version of arnishamba so first of all you sold out of the first principle he says you have to be looking for God if you're not looking for God you're almost sure to not find him if you're not looking for God it's almost certain that you won't find him you have to be yearning and longing and looking and searching you have to be hungry and thirsty to be a mavakish Hashem to be Sama to be to be thirsty describes he was thirsty to drink from tabascan to find to feel the love of Hashem so number one for shambuses to say I'm disconnecting turning off technology not thinking about my to-do list I'm not thinking about whatever might have aggravated me or whatever I went wrong my failures but I'm going to lean into Shabbos kirivas Elohim I'm going to feel the presence the love the affection I'm going to spend time with Hashem I have to be looking for it I have to be looking for it sometimes it's a family reunion sometimes one is seeing parents you haven't seen in a long time or grandchildren children you haven't seen in a long time what's the agenda what's the goal what are you looking to get out of it how do you want to spend time do you want to feel closer by the end of the that visit by the end of that time showers not just another day on the calendar Shabbos is not we've had so much Junta if we can do without Shabbos we always need Shabbos to plug in and to recharge and to reconnect and to feel that connection lorata says orashabas I'm not reading it to you inside but this is the overview this is the Russia program the titles says to want the light of Shabbos again if you don't if you don't open a window or a door if you don't make a crack the light can't come in if you're not looking for Hashem you're not going to find him so what are we doing on Friday in anticipation in longing what are we looking forward to getting how do we want to unmot a Shabbos feel what a smack Shabbos those meals those different those games those mirrors the shirom I went to the davening that I had the rest that I took the book that I read however you experience the Shabbos what's the goal what's the goal that on mote Shabbos to be able to ask each other how was Shabbos and you'll be able to answer about what was Shabbos what was Shabbos that's got to be part of the agenda shops I'll tell you something interesting we have a long-standing tradition from actually my brother and sister-in-law in Arizona that at a time most of their family was in America today we're the only ones of all the siblings and parents in America and they still do it they read a moto shabba's email because of the time difference by the time Shabbos is over in America they're asleep in Israel so as to not have to wait till Sunday to find out how someone's Shabbos was they write an email we with our children who live in Israel we have a Mote Shabbos WhatsApp voice note we leave them a voice note when our they leave us a voice note when their Shabbos is over after havdala we can play in here we leave them a voice note so they can wake up Sunday morning while we're still sleeping to find out how our Shabbos was why am I telling you that because what goes into a mustache email what goes into a massage voice note do you talk all about I made this recipe and we made that recipe and there were charcuterie boards and there was a meat and a chicken and four sides and seven desserts and you won't believe it is that the sum total of how is your zombies or do you talk about this miros this person davened listen to the tune they used for kadusha we sat at the table for hours this was the fascinating conversation that we had we left we had fun we read we learned we what goes into if you were to every mote Shabbos leave a voice note for someone you love to tell them how was your Shabbos what would you include in that voice note what would capture or summarize or best communicate what is most important for your Shabbos the ingredients the menu beautiful important enhanced job as enormously can include that too especially if you're not the one who made it you say oh your mother made the most incredible shot but she made this this and that this and my favorite dish beautiful it's part of it is that the majority of it or do you talk about what it is miros were incredible we went to this tissue went to this one we had these guests this is what we spoke about what goes into the mozash email the Mozart's voice note what do you cherish and what do you look to take away from Shabbos how do you capture and how do you turn yourself into a vessel to be able to receive the light of Shabbos that's true every Shabbos it's especially true to Shabbos braces not Shabbos parshus precious sharp is braces wishing everyone a great fresh new start a great new beginning to be able to read these partios with new eyes with a fresh heart to come back with a new sense of selves this is a new year this is a new beginning should be filled with Baraka stay happy stay holy and stay healthy foreign