Friday is a MIRROR | Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #242

[music] [singing] [music] [singing] Welcome back to Friday of Shabas. [music] Today is not Friday. [music] We're here to turn our Friday into Shabas generously sponsored by menish fertavid. I want to begin this morning learning a newer I got recently shabases a new shabas very very beautiful ideas I'm excited to make our way through some of the safer and learn some of these ideas together with you we know that Friday is pregnant with possibility Friday is not just st another day of the week Friday one can already feel and sense if a person is finally tuned that shabas is coming hopefully we wake up to a clean house maybe even a that table. Maybe even the smells of Shabas. Not just the dry cleaning that's hanging, not just the feeling physically that Shabas is in the air, but the feeling spiritually that we can see and we can recognize and that we've been preparing and we can almost almost measure that it's Shabas. It's not like Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Friday is not another ordinary day of the week. Even though it's not yet Shabas, it already has the energy and it already has the light of Shabas. PK says when it comes to the falling of the man on the six days when they prepared what was brought there was double the portion that there was every day the in fact learns from here that a person should wake up early on Friday don't wait for the last minute on Friday and don't only do it on Thursday and Wednesday but Friday morning davka Friday is msugal person should schedule wake up early or wake up or allocate I know it's not easy for everyone and there's no judgment or pressure people work people have responsibility people have young children but if we can Friday morning wake up to just like the says a person should wake up just like the man fell immediately Friday morning. Therefore, the preparation for Shabas for the falling of the bun happened on Friday. So too, we should schedule and organize our Friday morning that we're doing something. Set a table, sweep, put something up for food for Shabas. We should get ready even early. We should get ready even early. Understands this. He says something magnificent. A person who is serving Hashem all week long. The person the entire week is oriented around Shabas. Sunday, Monday are one day and two days since Shabas and they're one or two days towards the next Shabas. And a person is living all week long striving, yearning, looking forward, realizing Shabas is the payday, the payoff. A person is learning and davening is listening to Hashem and talking to him. person is practicing bit surrendering to Hashem putting elocus over ego all week long the measure the metric the indication of what kind of week you had is when you wake up Friday morning do you already feel the sanctity of Shabas even though you haven't done anything yet you haven't set a table you didn't put up a chalant you didn't yet do anything technically to get ready for Shabas but if you wake up with a feeling that today is different. This is no ordinary day. It's not another weekday. Today is different. That is an indication. That is a reflection. That is a testament to the kind of week that one had. So the way that you approach, the way you feel, the way you wake up to Friday tells you what kind of week you have. Or put differently, we should have the kind of week, be present and revolve our week around Chabas and be connected to Hashem, talking, loving, yearning, connecting that when we wake up Friday morning, it's palpable. We're looking forward. We can't wait. We are excited. You don't wake up the day you're going on vacation the day before and someone has to tell you, by the way, are you ready? Are you packed? We're go. Person looks forward. If you're connected with your family, if you're talking, if you're planning, if you're packing, if you're excited, then come that day that you're actually leaving, you're ready. No one has to remind you. So similarly, if we have a week all week long that we're connected to Hashem, we can't wait to spend the time with him on Shabas. We are in a relationship that's dynamic and vibrant and energized, then we feel it in Shabas. and said the normally you see this in the when a person wakes up Friday morning feeling that they are preparing that this is no ordinary day they're bringing that into Friday you're bring the whole week the attitude the experience you're bringing it into Friday that is a sim this is revealing teaching to what you collected yom day by day the whole week. That's how the nom read the pome read the p that if you have the kind of week that you want to and mean to have you'll see it you'll feel it will be indicated on on Friday so we woke up today we're turning our Friday into shabas we're getting ready we have to get ready physically prep preparing spiritually stories ideas Torah we have to be ready guest checking in phone calls but we should wake up we should have the kind of week that we wake up on a Friday that we're already feeling shabas we're already feeling Yet the zerod says that's why Friday is called Shabas. Why isn't it called Yashishi? We should call it Friday the sixth day yashishi. Why is it called Shabas? Says the zerod it comes from the language of Arab is tarov. Tarov is a mixture. Friday is not weekday nor is it fully Shabas. There's a mixture. There's a blend. There's an integration. Friday is the end of the weekday. And you can already feel palpably. You can feel the sparks of Shabas. erv it's mixed together Friday. It's a mixture of the weekday and a mixture of Shabas. That's the kind of Friday we should have not another day like any day of the week until the last of the 18 minutes when we roll into Shabas. But it should be that we wake up Friday already to this mixture palpable. You could feel it, you could see it, you could measure it, you could taste it, you could smell it. That we wake up to a Friday, we transform our Friday into an air of Shabas. Wishing everyone a holy, happy, and a healthy Shabas. >> [music] >> Oh, [singing] [music] yeah. [singing] [music]