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Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #190 - See Clearly on Shabbos

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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good Arab shabas welcome back to turn Friday into Arab shabas today is not Friday we are counting up shabas Kish sweet Serenity Tranquility the peace that we long for the escape the Cocoon [Music] Kish this week is also in honor of big beautiful beautiful I want to share with you beautiful thought beautiful idea from shom on this idea of the Holiness of of shabas it connects to our begins says see look I'm putting before you and there's so much to say on this p and we did in the par class whenever you're listening to this even if it's not it's worth hearing this beautiful Insight because the says that no I place before you today can be a reference to shabas KES after all earlier in we learned that we have to have three meals on chabas from the fact that the word today is used three times in the when it comes to shabas on chabas when a Jew is disconnected from technology to-do tasks when a when we have a soul that's on fire we can see clearly all week long we're exhausted we're distracted all week long we're there's tension there's conflict there's competition for our time all week long we're struggling to connect we're buffering but chabas it's highspeed connection and when a person has highspeed connection they could download they can see they can see clearly that has given you sh it's through shabas that we can see clear we can't see clearly all week long there are too many troubles and too many struggles and too many challenges and too many distractions but chabas which is a taste shabas we're experiencing a taste of the world to come so on shabas we can see and we can see clearly and that's why gave us this day he gave us 24 25 hours where we can see clearly we see the bras in front of us our family and our friends we can count what's important we can dream and we can have a vision for we can and who we want to be this will this drive this desire this vision for who we can be and what we want to be to be able to take advantage on shabas shabas is the time that the light enables us to see we light those shabas candles they illuminate and we can see the BR that's in front of us we can see the vision and the potential and the possibility that's in front of us shabas is about Clarity so turn Friday into AR shabas is about it's about unwinding from the week stop being distracted stop being being tempted it's about pulling back a little bit from technology already on Arab shabas as ofos try to answer fewer emails try to do less work try to be less drawn and connected to the to the technology already begin to transition into this place of spirituality a place where you can see clearly place that you can see clearly if a person has a cataract a person has blurry eyes if there's something in a person's way they can't see through they can't see clearly and all week long that's us but come shabas it enables and empowers come shabas it's the prescription that we put on shabas is the prescription to see clearly gives us this six day he gives us this possibility he gives us the potential he quotes quotes from the worker he says the following why is it that during the week when you see someone at night you say have a good night and you see someone in the morning you say have a good morning have a good afternoon each part of the day you wish a different good a good morning good afternoon good night a different a different wish but shabas KES whether it's the night whether it's Friday night shabas morning chabas afternoon whenever what do you wish have a good chabas shabat Shalom have a good chabas good chabas applies throughout the whole 24 25 hours of chabas we don't differentiate the night the morning the afternoon with a different greeting good morning good night good afternoon why is that because the word Y is used three times these three times of shabas are all meaning day is the ultimate clarity at night there's Darkness You Can't See Clearly the cloak of Darkness there's Faith the night time the struggle the battle the chaos it takes Faith you see clearly during the day but chabas is day for 25 hours the sun doesn't go down of course it does literally but figuratively the Sun stays high in the sky three times in that apost the word Hy is used and we say good shabas because all of shabas is one unit of time there is no night morning and afternoon it's all that Clarity it's all that Vision it's all that perspective it's all that connection it's all that beauty and that uplifting of shabas the three parts of the of the day are equal the three parts of the of the which is and therefore we're able to see we're able to see clearly shabas empowers and enables and enriches so today let's turn our Friday into a of shabas don't be distracted and don't be tempted but already already begin to transition into that place into that time that's called the Holiness of shabas already get excited about shabas see and see the people around you and see beside yourself wishing [Music] everyone yes [Music] ofing positivity 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