Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #127 - Turn Up the Light!

good herb Shabbos everybody it is not Friday it is going to take a response for the Earth's term foreign week and a beautiful Friday we're turning Friday into Arab Shabbos getting ready and counting down to the Holiness the sanctity to the excitement of Shabbos kodesh the Shabbos to continue to read about Demarcus about the plagues in the try and one of which was the ninth the penultimate plague was Darkness not simply a blackout not simply the absence of light but a deep penetrating Darkness a cloud and cloak of Darkness a sense of living in a place mentally spiritually physically of Darkness what is the antidote to that Darkness the plastic says for the Jewish people of Albany so the Jewish people all had ore we all had light much for some where we live says what is the secret what is the key to having or how do we continue to have light it has to be the most for somewhere we live and when is that Shabbos kodesh all week long we're running we're going we're doing all week long we're elsewhere Shabbos we return back to Our Roots Travis we return back to our home Shabbos we return back to our source Shabbos we are some we have light the light of Shabbos the light of Hashem the light of his mirrors the light is singing light of the Laughing light of Storytelling the light of directora the light of reading the light of sleeping the Jewish people we all have light when we remain so Friday Friday we're getting ready to turn up the light to turn off the darkness no more sadness no more depression no more despondency no more despair no more Darkness plus success when it comes to Darkness points out the plague of Darkness was that nobody saw their brother the dark is so deep and so profound and so potent that a person couldn't even see their brother you know when you live in a place of darkness when you can't see anyone else when you're self-centered when you're focused on yourself Shabbos we care about we see we connect with others we sit around the shabba's table with others we come to a shul and we dive in with others we learn with others we make Allah and we enjoy a kiddish with others or we can all have light we can all grab onto that light so Friday turn up the dimmer turn up the light feel the light of Shabbos feel linashema absorbing the light of Hashem it's not a coincidence how does one enter into Shabbos by lightning Shabbos candles so set up those candles there's a beautiful tequila composed for husbands when they set up the leichter the Candelabra it's beautiful for the woman when she lights the candles of the home we're bringing in that light not only are we discharging an obligation of Hadlock as nearest to light candles but there's a meditation there's an intention there's a kavana light those candles and connect with the light and bring in the light and turn up the light and live in the light live in the brightness live in the illumination the clarity that feeling of seeing Hashem in our lives the darkness is feeling fragmented and divided and distracted the darkness is the despair the darkness are the mistakes and the shortcomings the failures come Shabbos we will come whole we become complete with others with ourselves and with Hashem we're able to feel that light we're able to see the brachas under our nose all along all week long we're running we're going we're doing trouble even overlapping to have a weeknight dinner together but Shabbos comes there's nowhere else to be we sit around that table and it's so bright the candles the Shabbos candles are Illuminating you know it's a minute when when one says kiddish before saying the body prayer girlfriend when it's supposed to look over and gaze it's quoted by The Ramones you look at the candles and it repairs the Damage Done to the eyes you see the candles and it illuminates the brushes that are right in front of you look at the Shadows table look at these people look at these guests or if I'm a guest look at where I am who's hosting me and who's invited me looking at what I'm part of feel and embrace that light those candles be part of that beauty the magnificence of shout don't live in a self-inflicted plague of hoshek of Darkness we can light the candles going into Shabbos and we can live off the candles coming out of Shabbos that's why it's not a coincidence we like candles going in Shabbos candles and we light a candle coming out the havdala candle try to take that light with us into the entire week we don't have to live with a sense of a plague but we can live with the sense the illumination the clarity the brightness the feeling that Hashem is with us that was just on this partial Islamic Shabbos has been teaching us this air of Shabbos it's not Friday when is there so it's not Wednesday winner is there a Shabbos the second Shabbos is over we're counting down two preparing for learning from the previous Shoppers getting ready for the next shop so we've been going between the six days of whole and the day of Shabbos so the next what we're up to is this we have a more expanded more on fire more finely attuned nashama more finally attuned soul in fact when we begin this series of turn Friday into Arab Shabbos we spent many many many weeks analyzing and seeing many interpretations of what it means to have in Hashem more on fire a more intense and more finely attuned Soul so we lose it we lose that Nisha is not a modern New Age newfangled idea come somewhere it comes from how do we Comfort ourselves strengthen ourselves from the sadness of having lost that nishami Sarah through the bisam that are all three leaves on each branch and take a with taking that Aroma taken that smell of you and bind together these three hadassem and imbibe absorb take in their Aroma what's the kavana of course that's not a halacha it's a Kabbalah there are what are the criteria of what is kosher Southern where is the Ariza coming from what is he trying to communicate says the three branches the three stalks the three branches of the hadassem of the Myrtle Branch correspond with the nephesh the ruach the three levels the three layers of our souls and the goal when you hold these three branches these three myrtles that correspond with the three aspects is to realize these have been supersized these have been expanded these have been on fire now I want to remember we want to take from them I want to extract from them I want to be transformed by them I don't want that Nisha to just go back I don't want to revert back to who I was I want to be changed I want to be enriched I want to be transformed because closed captioning not available there is a risk a worry of fear I could lose that connection and I want to go back to one or two bars I don't want back to bad Wi-Fi I don't want to go back to buffering in my connection to Hashem I have to do an active to do something to leave it inside me to stay connected I have to turn myself into a hot spot I have to turn myself into a high-speed connection permanently I have to be transformed by the Neshaminy Sarah should stay connected how do I do that by taking in the aroma of the Muslim shame um you know Aroma is a spiritual sense you take in the aroma through your nose it's not tangible but it is something you experience spiritually metaphysically you can look at the basam and you can crinkle them in your fingers you can hold the beautiful holder in your hands there's something physical but the aroma is not physical so there's something physical but there's a panemus there's a depth to it which is spiritual that everything has the physical The Superficial but it also has the maybe the internal which is the essence of something it's hidden inside so when I hold the summon which are physical which are material but I'm trying to experience something spiritual it reminds me that I'm physical and I am superficial but I have a depth I have a penis in the same way I take in the aroma I'm trying to take in the nishamisera extend it and make it last even though we'll pick up with this American next time until next time have a beautiful shot as a holy Shabbos a happy Shabbos a healthy Shabbos