Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #179 - Free Yourself

good a shabas everyone it is the period of SP so we don't have music playing to uplift us but the music has to play in our head and our hearts during this time period because a yet a Jew can't live without music so we are nonetheless turning our Friday into a of shabas and wishing you a beautiful a holy a happy a healthy and a shabas filled with BOS toos should be a chabas that is filled with fantastic news for am Israel May our hostages return home May our soldiers of a sweeping Victory and return to their families turn Friday to shabas generously sponsored by many meman we talk about shabas in the singular shabas where are you going to be the shabas who are you having the shabas are you excited are you looking forward to shabas how was your shabas but the truth is sh our para tells us that every shabas is shab is made up of multiple shabas shabas is not singular it's not one every chabas is complex every chabas has at least two comp components to it shabai there are two shabas within every chabas and we've spoken many times in the past what are those two shabas on the one hand there's the shabas of the AA and the chabas of there is the component of chabas which is awe and reverence and recoil and the component of chabas which is Ava love and affection intimacy connection on the one hand there's the shabas of shamur be careful there are 39 categories of creative labor don't violate them what you can't do and on the other hand there's the chabas of zes sing and Tor and tell stories and have connection and play games and learn and sleep there's the shabas of Z every shabas has multiple components it's not simple it's not straight there sh there are multiple components what I want to share with you today is a beautiful Insight the the great Shalom and the says there's another way to come at the shab the two components of shabas and that is as follows we know Theos the first set of tablets in describe shabas the reason the theme of chabas as as creation why do we we are commemorating creation itself God created in six days and rested on the seventh and we for six days are active and we conquer and we learn and we control this world and then the seventh day we rest we are at peace harmony with the universe with nature around us the the second set of luos that not a second set we're given the second time the Torah tells us when it when it Recaps the Torah being given it tells us that the theme of shabas is is it commemorates the Exodus it's all about G it's about Redemption and it's about out Freedom what are these two components that are really present both themes in each and every shabas that we mention in The KES we mention in our daving but we have to live and practice in our hearts and in our homes says the following tells us that what does it mean shab it doesn't just commemorate a historical event that way back when before creation God Worked six days he rested on the seventh and we imitate we emulate we're not doing so simply to Mark and commemorate something historical but rather it's an ongoing ex it's an ongoing truth and it's an ongoing it's an ongoing practice the says that originally Hashem created a world to last for six days at which time he would evaluate whether to renew the contract or not is this world worth extending is it living up to its purpose in creation is it worth this ongoing relationship is it worthy of being renewed and each week since then each week since then k for the last 5,784 years K has been only renewing the contract one week at a time we're used to thinking that rashash is when we stand before him on the decides will we return will we come back or not that's true individually but collectively no of this world renews the contract for six days and then the shabas he decides whether he's going to do it again recreates us and recreates the world and gives us another chance another six days another week to prove ourselves to be the best version of ourselves to repair whatever mistakes or damage we did the week before to get it right to make it right to be right in the week that will be shabas is about renewal it is about a fresh start it is about another chance it is about a new contract it is about proving ourselves it is about a fresh fresh opportunity shabas is renewal and this is an incredible way to turn Friday into Arab chabas is to think about the week that was and say was there a conversation was there an email interaction was there a decision was there a shortcoming was there a mistake did I sleep in when I should have gotten up did I eat in a way that I promised I wouldn't did I skip and exercise or a health and wellness practice did I lose my cool and patience was I stingy instead of being generous with my time with my resources did I focus and learn to the best of my ability in each of my relationships with Hashem with others with myself with my family Friday as returning Friday into shabas it's to think tomorrow I get my new self my renewed sense of self it's a fresh start it's a new beginning let's go let's go I think about you know many most all of us clean our cars for PES unless you're going to be away but you clean your car for pesak so I don't know my mentality always is like when pesak is over and you have your car clean no BR food in no crumbs don't leave the garbage don't leave the wrapper throw away the bottle like you know PES comes clean car Fresh Start let's see if we get it right this time how long can we keep the car clean this time so shabas says how long can we keep ourselves clean this time pure pristine Fresh Start renewed how can we make up for those mistakes how can we stay pure and pristine how can we be our best selves and we'll get another chance again next shabas each week each week we can make it our best week each week we can be our best selves each week we get another chance to get it to get it right and chabas has that component of mous of Bria there is creation and Recreation chabas there is a new us and a new beginning and a fresh start that only happens when we take responsibility for what happened in the past when we make amends when we ask forgiveness when we work out reconciled you can't on shabas declare to the people you hurt got a new Nisha new shabas new start too bad you have to say you're sorry you have to make up you have to reconcile you have to with others and with yourself and then you're ready to go shabas will give you the new and says the sler but if one is not on that level when one doesn't feel that they have a fresh start in a New Soul and they get a new beginning then there's the there's still the notion of G there's still the notion of a little bit of redemption stages of redemption incremental change of redemption little openings and holes of redemption the possibility of of redemption so both of these components Hashem says each week observe both of my shabas that of creation Recreation renewal that of redemption of gula of Exodus of Freedom liberate yourself the shackles that which is holding you back we just finished P we are Marching towards sh and with not the says it's not that we left the geographic place called Egypt you see would be leaving the geographic place called Egypt means we're not only leaving Egypt we're having Egypt leave us we're taking us out of Egypt and taking Egypt out of us you see us MIT we're leaving that mentality that place called MIT MIT is M it's shackles it's holding his back it's the way it is this is how I eat this is how I sleep this is how I speak this is what I do that that those shackles those self-imposed shackles that hold us back and restrict us and constrain us break free every shabas every shabas leave that leave that which is holding you back set yourself free as we count towards chabas and we turn our Friday into Arab shabas let us recreate let us have that Fresh Start let us renew let us have that renew let us have that fresh start and let nothing hold us back let us Break Free to personal Redemption Collective Redemption to a place of yes have a beautiful wonderful holy happy healthy