Geulah in the Galus | Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #244

[music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] >> A good mar of shabbos everyone. Today is not Friday, today is erev shabbos and we're here to turn our Friday into a shabbos with tremendous thanks to Mendy and Zipora Fishman as a for a blessing for a fetal memory of Jonathan Sacks and David and in memory of Mendy's father's should have an aliyah. Shabbos the shabbos the holy shabbos that couldn't come at a better time. Every one of us needed all week long. We are fragmented and frazzled. All week long we are stretched and all week long we are distracted. All week long we are drawn to our technology and our to-do's and shabbos comes ah, what a city of refuge, what a salvation. Shabbos comes, we immerse ourselves into our family, ourselves and of course our creator the shalom. And there is an allusion to the holy shabbos and to what shabbos does and provides for us in this week's parsha Bnei Israel These are the names of the Jewish people who are coming to Egypt as issue Jacob and a person and his family they came. I'm reading from the full of the list of who is the of Shaila. As Jacob so table shabbos. As Jacob who came to Egypt Jacob issue a person the last letter of each of those words as Jacob issue spells out shabbos because the tells us in the shabbos said to the shalom shalom everyone has a partner. Everyone has companionship and I'm all alone. Sunday has Monday, Tuesday has Wednesday, Thursday has Friday. Shabbos says who what do I have? I'm the Jewish people they are your pair. They are your other half. They're your match. They're your companion. They're your companion. There's a connection between a and shabbos what we connect we are only made whole through shabbos. If all we had was the weekday, all we had was pursuit of the material, all we had was controlling manipulating this world. If we didn't have shabbos, we'd be incomplete. We'd be a half and not a whole. Shabbos is not just another day of the week, another day on the calendar. Shabbos is our other half. Shabbos is where we find who we really are because the world around us is shut down. We're able to retreat into ourselves and into what matters. Shabbos gives us the margin the space to be able to think. Shabbos is what gives us the serenity and the hope the entire the whole week. My son told me that's the idea that we say all week long. Famously says that's how we fulfill we observe and remember shabbos not only making shabbos but all week long. But he said it also gives the Jews solace as we're suffering in the as we're making our way through a difficult week. More anti-semites, more challenges at work, more loneliness in life, more issues that we're trying to navigate and overcome. By mentioning by orienting our day around shabbos we remember that shabbos is the shabbos is the goal shabbos is the payday shabbos is the payoff. Shabbos is the it is the source of all blessing. Says the the list of Shabbos shabbos is a reference to shabbos is a reference to the shalom himself and therefore our our other half really is shabbos. So come like the says issue the as Jacob when we went into we didn't go by ourselves. We didn't go on our own. We weren't left alone to figure it out. We went with the shalom shalom the shalom shalom I can shalom shalom shabbos Jacob issue we didn't go alone we went with Jacob. Jacob is an allusion to the to the shalom. Shabbos is a believe it's the of Jacob. When do we feel most connected? When do we find shabbos? You know things in the middle of the middle of the week. We don't have time and head space to be able to learn in the middle of the week necessarily as much as we do on shabbos. We're not able to sit undistracted like we can during the week. So where is the found? When is it our other half? In the holy in the shabbos. That's the idea Jacob is the shabbos and is shabbos and the idea is that shabbos is he doesn't spell it out but I want to suggest that maybe what the is saying is the following that as we're heading down we were going down into why is there a why is there an allusion to shabbos specifically on our way down into and I think perhaps maybe what the is getting at what the Torah itself is telling us is that while we're in that that darkness while we're in that place that feels helpless and hopeless while we're in that place that feels absent of godliness know hashem is coming with us and where do we find him? Shabbos. Where do we find our solace? Shabbos. A a Jew in you're not in there's even in when on shabbos. Shabbos is the in when we immerse ourselves in shabbos we find redemption because whatever there is on our to-do list however many emails are in our inbox whatever's waiting for us that we have to get to know that shabbos is even within us. So we too were in the harsh of this rise of anti-semitism and the harsh of whatever we're waiting for and struggling with and we need to know and remember the in shabbos. Six days we feel that six days we're following along with being said and broadcast and podcast in this but come shabbos about in shabbos shabbos Jacob is the so let's turn our Friday into shabbos. Let's get ready for a shabbos. Who doesn't need who who doesn't want to get out of this and how do we do it? Where can we go to experience it? How do we get a taste of it for 25 hours? For 25 hours that's the it gives us everything we need to go back to the week. For 25 hours to believe to have faith to know to be optimistic positive to be able to experience even within wishing everyone a beautiful healthy holy and a happy shabbos. >> [music] >> Let's >> [music and singing] >> shabbos >> [music and singing] [music and singing] >> shabbos