Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #118 - Clean the Filth

I'll get an Arab Shabbos everyone welcome back to turn Friday into Arab Shabbos it is not Friday for us it is Shabbos I want to thank our General sponsors Mendy and see Paul official subscribe in memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacramento tea Ben David Arya thank you so much for your generosity it is almost time to welcome the Holy Hill gashabas so here we go so turn Friday into Arab Shoppers we're learning Morgenstern and we've talked all about the preparation that's needed you cannot experience you cannot tap into you cannot be enriched you cannot be elevated by the beauty by the Holiness of Shabbos unless you prepare unless you get ready and we spoke about all the things that are necessary to do that loratzos rats you have to run you have to want you have to yearn for Shabbos you have to prepare the second you sowed was to prepare you have to prepare in four different ways number one you have to shop cook set the table make the bed and so on you have to do the physical preparations number two immerse yourself in the learning of Shabbos ideas of Shabbos number three you have to wake up and arouse yourself open up your heart and your mind and your soul to feel Shabbos and number four you have to bask in the lighter Shabbos all week long we're up to now you sold gimmel the Third Edition the Third Way in order to Merit the Holiness and the light of Shabbos is to make ourselves holy it doesn't happen on its own we have to make ourselves holy Shabbos even though the core is we have juxtaposed these two different perspectives or attitudes or approaches to every area of life to every relationship of life to every room for growth of life there's the Sur Mera avoid the negative avoid the bad avoid that which will compromise or they will take us down in the assetov not only avoid the bad do the good you have this in health and wellness don't eat bad food eat what's right for you and exercise don't look at the wrong thing I say toe fill your life with Holiness and the right thing every single realm every single example so when it comes to Shabbos two the icker the core of getting ready in the ick of the core Central to the experience of Shabba says I say Tov to long for to wait to look forward to to have drive and desire to prepare to enter and bask in the light of Shabbos all week long but a person also needs the Sur Mera to avoid the bad avoid the evil avoid the negative what does that mean where is the Sur May Ryan turning Friday into Arab Shabbos where's the surmi RA in experiencing the beauty of the light of Shabbos you know we have an animal impulse and animal Instinct we have an animal Drive animal desires we have Temptation we're very human we have failings and failures and we have vices we have to cut ourselves off from them we have to break free from them what is going to block the light what's going to conceal the light of Shabbos what's going to prevent us and obscure us from connect acting to the holy spiritual parts of Shabbos and in general from connecting to Hashem what gets in the way the impediment the obstacle the blockage is when we indulge the compulsive behavior of our animal Soul taiva when we look at the wrong thing or say the wrong thing or act the wrong way when we're lazy and sleep and procrastinate the more that a person is covered with clippos when there are layers and coverings when there are filters the bad kind not the good kind that are holding us back then the light the light of our nashama it cannot spread it can't it can't Blossom it can't feel and connect with the light of Hashem to you so Torah tells us in parisum to you be holy be holy we don't strive for happiness as hidden as Jews we strive for Holiness or because only when a person is a vessel of Holiness can you hold the Holy Light can you connect to the Holy Light of Hashem but when we're filled with filth when we're contaminated when we're impure when we're soiled when we're indulging that behavior then it's hard to connect now it's very important to qualify this none of us are perfect we're all human and a person should never feel I'm worthless and I'm incapable because you know I looked at the wrong things I had the wrong thoughts I said the wrong thing I went to the wrong place you know what I give up on myself Hashem certainly gives up on me I mean nothing those are terrible thoughts and negative thoughts we're only human and of course we cannot get stuck in the past we have to look to the Future to be better so ravicha Meyer is not saying that if you've ever been in the wrong place had the wrong thought if you've ever done the wrong ra if you've ever indulged that animal impulse you're finished don't bother it's not what he's saying we're human we make mistakes but do we come back what's our aspiration what's our ambition where's our drive what do we strive for do we at least want to peel back the layers of Temptation desire Drive do we want to nourish the cadoshim to you do we want to live a life in which we're striving for Holiness rather than for happiness we want to enjoy the ultimate and the truest pleasure which is the light of Hashem is Barack so where do we do that Shabbos Shabbos on fire Shabbos we've shut off what is a source of so much Tomah especially technology Technologies are broken it's wonderful and there's so much that it gives us but it also poses such a formidable challenge it is filled with desire and drive and distraction at the best wasting time and at the worst imbibing images and ideas and ideals that absolutely corrupt us Shabbos were disconnected from all that shamas were connected to singing and reading to learning and growing to davening and laughing and playing and those are the things that nourish the nashama those are the things that expand the light to allow our light to connect to the light of Hashem so there's the assetov and and we're often very filled with the assetov of turning Friday into Arab Shabbos what's the assetov you gotta shop you got a cookie how to set the table you've got to change you got to go to the dry cleaner you got to get ready to cut your nails get a haircut take a shower all the assay Tov all the positive of getting ready for Shabbos but there's a huge component says Richard Meyer of the Sur Mera of Arab Shabbos the surmeira is trying to rid ourselves and Purge ourselves of whatever mistakes we've made whatever indulgences we've allowed or whatever compulsive Behavior we've engaged in maybe we had the wrong thoughts or we said the wrong maybe we felt feelings of jealousy or Envy or arrogance or anger maybe we're in the wrong place Sur Mera Break Free Purge cleanse get rid of the ra whatever that is that's dragging us down because if there's a layer that's covering us if we're being concealed then how will we connect to the light of Shabbos so the more that we eliminate and Purge and step back and remove from the impurity and from the physicality then we will Merit while making more space we're making more room we're becoming a greater vessel to hold the rooknis Cain F sharas it's not possible to rise a level it's not possible to be a vessel in a Klee to hold and to experience the truth without purging first and purifying and getting rid of the contaminants without getting rid of the ra so we can't be focused exclusively on the assetov the whole world of people who want to get together for the best wine the best scotch and the best smoked brisket let's get together before Shabbos and welcome to Shabbos with all the assay top of our bringing will sing and it'll be great but don't forget the Sur Mera what else needs to First be removed and eliminated and purged how do we have to cleanse some have the minute to go men go to the Mikvah every Arab Shabbos that's part of the surmeira how do I emerge from the Mikvah pure and reborn and renewed how do I try to eliminate and not only wash off we spoke about this earlier also many sessions ago episodes ago that one of the cavanas that we have when a person takes a shower of Shabbos is that we're getting rid of we're washing off not only the physical dirt so that we could be the most clean physically for Shabbos but the imagery is we're washing off the spiritual filth we're eliminating we're washing away whatever we shouldn't have been looking thinking saying doing tasting experiencing The Sur Mera so air of Shabbos is defined and characterized by assetov Eric Shabbos is about out the do the good prepare the good come closer to the good but it's also the surma rabies and this is every person on the level they're at okay the higher you want to climb the Holier you want to be the more light you want to hold the more pure you need to be the more distance you need to be the more purging you need to do from the wrong things this is very core and basic and Central to the service of Hashem that only when Adam sogars when we show discipline and sovereignty when we have boundaries from this world experiences the compulsive animal experiences then we can Merit to receive the light to receive the light of Shabbos the certainty the truth of of Hashem Sarah God so each person on their level has to a little bit less a little bit less on Friday the whole week long as we get closer to the Shabbos but particularly Friday which is Arab Shabbos start a little less Ola Maza a little less gashmias a little less ra Sur Mera try to remove a little bit from the ra try to be focused much more on the Tove we have to add both components please God when we do we can have the most beautiful the most healthy the most holy Shabbos you know this is a long weekend in America Thanksgiving weekend it is the long weekend there's so much to give thanks to Hashem for it's a cliche for a Jew every day is Thanksgiving and even though many are off from work Thursday and Friday Chavez is not just the third day of three days off from work Thursday and Friday are off from work but they're not Shabbos Friday is off from work but it's not Friday to air of Shabbos and Shabbos is all together different maybe b a vessel Sur Mera let's get rid of whatever Roz holding his back remove the peel the layers so we can let all that light in to have a healthier holy and a happy happy Shabbos Curry dish [Music] cover Chavez Kurdish everybody