Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #197 - Feeding the Body, Freeing the Soul

good a of shabas today is not Friday today is a of shabas Kes our whole orientation our whole lives revolve around shabas shabas shabas the shabas so excited for the holy shabas turn is generously sponsored by in memory of jcob thank you so much for your generosity so I want to start learning something a little bit new I want to learn back in by the great R Morgan turn shabas towards the end of the sa has a shabas and he wonders as we all do or should we know if there's any that is filled with more material pleasure Joy than any other of the week and chabas when do we spend so much time cooking preparing setting a table we use our Fine China and our silverware and our Crystal we have many courses we have many side dishes we have countless mes it's a day in which we rest and we sleep it's a day in which we crack open wonderful delicious fine wine Scotch tequila all in moderation appropriately of course but it's a day that there's so much it's a you can't tell wonder what's going on here shabas is supposed to be a my soul is on fire my soul is expanded my soul is much more in tuned and what am I doing to nourish my soul giving material things not spiritual things if shabas is this incredible Wellspring of spirituality if shabas my my soul is on fire is expanded as more receptive once a day we should fast once a day once a week we should not need to sleep once a week we should transcend once a week we should extract ourselves from the physical world and what do we do instead we immerse ourselves in it we immerse ourselves more than any other day of the week what is going on here what is the role of the physical with the spiritual and we expand it it's not enough that we enter that world of the physical on shabas a little a of shabas to taste of the cougal taste a little bit on a of shabas already begin to get the taste of chabas on a shabas and mo shabas don't forget malava MAA don't forget warm beverage we schlepping the gmas into Mo shabas so here we are this day that's supposed to represent spirituality which our soul is more expanded and expansive than ever and how are we spending it more immersed in gmas than ever what's going on over here so he quotes the following and this is so important as today's ER of chabas we're getting ready in that mindset we're getting prepared we're entering that place called shabas says the following by taking care of physical Drive urges Temptation satisfaction pleasure by indulging in the physical we satisfy the physical and we distract the physical and the spirit can fly it can flourish it can go unencumbered it can it can express itself without being distracted now this is so important the kav the mindfulness the intention when you're making that when you're eating that third plateful when you're enjoying that dessert when you're sleeping a little bit more the purpose the essence the goal the purpose is not to lean into the physical it's not what we're eating the Shakur the Delicacies the courses the tricolor Gila fish the wine the the the tequila we are satisfying and indulging the body so that the body is not hry so that the body is not fetching so that the body's not crying out the body's satisfied the body's grateful the body is happy and now the soul now the soul can learn and sing and laugh and share T and tell stories now the soul can D and now the soul can sing explained this based on a parable you have a prince the son of a king who's been taking captive from an enemy and while he's in captivity he gets a letter from his father the king telling the son don't give up don't be hopeless don't be despondent don't forget you're a prince the son of a king the day of your liberation of your emancipation that you will be set free it's coming close certainly we D for the hostages that their day will come close we di for soldiers we do for all back to our mush of this Prince this son of the king to get a letter the handwriting the language the vocabulary of the father of the pre of the king telling him any day he's gonna go free what good news access connection to his father but he looks around the prison he says who am I gonna tell this to who can understand this no one's from where I come from no one knows my father the king no one appreciates his power no one shares in my excitement that I'm going to go free he doesn't want to sing and dance on his own they'll laugh the other inmates the other prisoners will laugh at him so what does he do he somehow gets some Contraband he gets a bottle of wine a bottle of scotch and he pours for the prisoners now the prisoners they don't know what this is about but they know that they have a they know they're getting a little Scotch a little tequila a little fine wine they drink it they make they sing and they dance they drink and they get intoxicated and they dance and they have because of their wine they're all singing and dancing because they're a stickle atile intoxicated why is he singing in dancing because he's made contact with the King because the King has reassured him because he has access to the king our doesn't need or our doesn't need rest or sleep our needs and to cling and to attach to it's drawing Us close the problem is that the soul is being housed and held by the body it's taken captive so the that wants to sing and dance and Thrive but the body doesn't get it so we say to the body delicious kala a bunch of dips a little a glass of wine they're gonna have a man and several sides and four meats and three chickens the body now is lacking nothing can interrupt could interfere could distract now the is singing and dancing with the body for totally separate different reasons the body it's happy satisfied the belly is full and the body is a little bit happy but the soul is connecting to shabas connecting to Hashem connecting to its source connecting to itself today this Friday as a of shabas as we're turning Friday into a of chabas as we're getting ready for chabas what we're getting getting ready for is we're cooking we're cleaning we're preparing we're setting a table we're having to we have multiple courses but we're getting ourselves ready to remember to remember that we're simply satisfying the bod so the N we're not indulging it because it's an ends it is a means to enable the Nama to thrive and here is the kicker here's the takeaway here's the most important part of this message if a person indulges the gashi the gmas just for the gashi you've missed the boat of chabas it's a counterfeit an authentic chabas if it's really all about the physical for the physical then it's it's indulge the physical enjoy the physical get pleasure from the physical Let the Body be satisfied from the physical so now the soul can Thrive and flourish and sing and dance and have who to sing and dance with so put it in context put it in perspective understand what it's all about and wishing everyone a shabas a shabas of tan a shabas of tan shabas of enjoying Mish enjoy shabas enjoy enjoy the food enjoy the drink enjoy the company enjoy the sleep enjoy the rest but all of that so that you can truly enjoy the can truly be a sa and really the can sing and dance enjoy and enjoy being expanded and enjoy your family and friends enjoy T and ultimately enjoy the shabas wishing everyone a wonderful shabas [Music]