Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #45 - Find Redemption on Shabbos

is it's from friday of shabbos welcome back we'll begin momentarily until then get in the mood the covered shabbos kiddish [Music] thank you for joining us again turn friday into amsterdam this one express our gratitude to our generous sponsors in memory of rabbi lord jonathan sacks of yakuza and today's turn friday entire shabbos is also sponsored by daniel and uh deborah scheinbein commemoration of the year side of her beloved father of deborah's father lawrence hertzberg your generosity thank you to the fishmans for your generosity greatly appreciated we are here to turn friday into arab shabbos all right everybody turn friday into arab shabbos it's not just friday we're getting ready to celebrate shabbos and boy do we need shabbos as the world continues to go even further insane we need to escape not because we're trying to escape in an unhealthy way but we need a break we need a sabbatical shabbos is shvisa like shemitah is called the shabba shabbaton we need a sense of a shemitah we need a break we need to withdraw we need to disconnect we need to rest we need to put our mind at ease we need to be able to uh experience a real shabbos a real shabbas so that we have what it takes from a position of strength a position of health to be able to come back strong and to be able to return to the following week and along with you a piece by the great salon salamurab that happens to connect to our parsha but even if you're listening to this series not up to parties about nevertheless it's relevant to everyone for what shabbos is really all about and how badly we all really need a sense of shabbos the measure says rabbah that moshe saw the suffering of the people moshe saw there was no rest of the paro he went and he said he said that if you have a slave and he doesn't rest one day a week he'll surely die person can't live so if you don't give them off one day a week seven days a week 365 a year 24 hours a day there's something called burnout you're going to burn them out you're going to destroy them so power don't you want them to be efficient don't you want them to be excellent don't you want them to be in maximum productivity you're going to burn them out so go do what you want so moshe gave them shabbos so the observance of shabbas already began when we were in mitzrayim even when we were already in egypt we began we began with the concept of observing shabbos and the measure says something furthermore which is astounding the measure says aeneus on the golem it says the jewish people were only redeemed in the merit in the merit of shabbos so the simple understanding being redeemed the merit of shabbos means observing shabbos keeping shabbos if only jews would keep two shabasos yadni golem just one shabbos and we all go free i don't know where that comes from the kimono says you need two shabbos it's not just one to go free but just one shabbos and we all go free free from the anxiety and the chaos free from the pressure and responsibility free from the worry and the work free from the doubt and uncertainty free free from the slavery and oppression of being connected to devices into streams and to entertainment and to news and to social media and to the like ain't israel in the galaxy the jewish people we only are freed in the merit of in the merit of keeping shabbos so the understanding islam elaborates and he says what does it mean that we achieved that we were freed in the merit of keeping shabbos it doesn't mean the 39 malaccas of course they're not negotiable and of course we have to be vigilantly careful with the 39 of malachos what we can do what we can't do how we do it but that's not what the medrash means what the matrix means is if you want gula if you want personal redemption it comes through shabbos it comes through shabbos you see what is godless says what is godless exile is sila kadas means the inability to think the inability to think clearly when your mind is clouded and when there's a constant noise and all you feel is static in your head you don't have an ability to see clearly think clearly when the world is just filled with chaos and noise sila kadas the removal of the interference the barrier to thinking clearly that's galas that is exile gaula gula is when you have shabbos so says islam rabbi ghoul is not just the observance of the strict laws the minutias the details which of course are all critically important but google is when we restore our sense of das so it's a new paradigm it's a new way of looking at what shabbos is all about essentially if i have to paraphrase all week long we lose our mind and shabbos comes and we try to recapture our mind all week long we lose our mind we go out of our mind we use the terminology in our very vernacular we talk about losing our mind and going out of our mind and shabbos comes and we're able to restore our mind so i had to go to a dentist oral surgeon who's become a friend dr howard rosa i hope he's listening he's an amazing guy in boca raton not a member of our synagogue and somebody who doesn't particularly observe shabbos in the traditional sense but he said to me rabbi i follow you i found you on facebook and friday nights i like to listen to that little talk you give friday afternoons so that was well and good very flattering very complimentary i couldn't answer them mr thirsty was sucking on one side and the drill was going on the other side and dentists for some reason like to have one-way conversations i'm not what i'm not sure exactly what they expect to happen back so it was very lovely but then he said to me something which really shook me and dr rosa if you're listening i went home and talked to my wife about it and i haven't stopped thinking about it he said to me that every friday afternoon you go on live and you tell everybody they've got a disconnect he said rabbi when do you disconnect when do you turn it off when do you disconnect when do you find serenity and peace when do you restore and recover and find your mind that you've lost all week long i'm still trying to figure it out i don't have an answer for him i don't have an answer for myself but i'm grateful that he fixed my tooth and i'm grateful that he's trying to fix me by asking that important question so dr rosa you're the man thanks for all that you do but says the son of marebba that's what shabbos is one day a week 24 25 hours we try to find our mind again we try to connect to what matters again all week long is silocadas all week long there are influences and ideas all week long there's worry and concern and fear all week long all week long we're losing our mind who hasn't lost their mind by following the news and the market and the health and the medical advisory and the world it's impossible to not lose your mind who doesn't lose their mind with their to-do list and how much has to get done and how many directions they're being pulled in shabbos comes and we turn and we find our mind the opposite of losing our mind the opposite of godless of a personal exile our mind our brain our heart our soul being in exile is a personal redemption and the personal redemption is when we shut down and we disconnect when we center and calibrate the personal redemption is when we're able to just think and able to just be unable to recover our mind and that's what the measures that's what our great rabbis were saying that why were the jews redeemed from egypt from 210 years of slavery and persecution only in the merit of shabbos not only in the merit of the strict observance of the laws of shabbos which of course is important and we have to do and we're accountable for doing but it means the concept of shabbos it's not a coincidence the irish army tells us that truly righteous people they are living shabbos all week long what does that mean they don't go in the car they don't go on the internet all week long a really righteous person is disconnected from the 39 categories of prohibitive creative labor all week long that's not what it means what it means is that the righteous person has that peace of mind and is unwilling to lose their mind all week long so they're unwilling to be a victim or a product of what their email tells them product every productivity gurus will tell you don't let your inbox become your to-do list if you let your inbox become your to-do list then you're letting other people decide how you spend your day you can't be rude you got to get back to the email emails that flow in but don't let email don't let the inbox become the to-do list so the really righteous person the really mindful person they're really aware and cognizant person they're able to live a shabbos life all week long again it doesn't mean they're not doing using electricity and the like that doesn't mean that they're not observing the 39 categories of creative labor but it means they're able to find that serenity and that peace of mind all week long not only and not having to wait for shabbos itself and that's our mission that's our vision that's what we're trying to accomplish to designate time during the day in order to to designate time during the week i should say to disconnect and mosha told paro that everything's got to rest all your devices you got to shut them down you got to reboot them every now and then everything if you overwork it it will burn out and we are no different and our souls are no different they've got to rest they've got to recalibrate they've got to rejuvenate they've got to renew they've got to start again and that's a great gift that we were given god took it from his treasure house and he shared it with us and it's in that merit many of us are going through a personal gulles a personal exile many have felt they've lost their minds there's corona fatigue it's difficult to persevere and to be so vigilant it's difficult to be able to get through this time but if we want a personal redemption not only the personal exile then it comes through it comes through restoring our da's da's meaning our sense of mindfulness awareness being at peace being having our mind at peace shabbos says we take a nap and we eat well and shabbos is the time that we rest our body sleep a little bit later rest a little bit more slow the pace a little bit but it's also manuka's nephesh nephesh means that my soul my soul is not fractured it's not fragmented it's not divided it's not being competed in so many different directions i'm able to be at peace i'm able to be serene it takes effort takes effort so that's your homework all of our homework is on this beautiful shabbos this holy shabbas that's beginning momentarily to be able to really be present and to be at peace and to restore our mind to not look at the things that aggravate us to not talk about the things that are going to elevate our blood pressure to not go into the things that are going to divide us to not to not um think about or talk about the things that are gonna set us back but to find that peace and that serenity to be able to experience that personal redemption that'll take us to greater and greater heights so wishing everyone a beautiful holy happy and a very very healthy shabbos [Music] shabbos is coming go get ready everything you do say it's for covet shabbos kodesh showering getting dressed setting the table it is to honor the holy and the beautiful and the great shabbos the koshabas here comes the siren everybody go get ready