Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #221 - Erev Shabbos and Erev Shavuos

trles. Oh y [Music] [Applause] we are turning our Friday into Thank you so much for joining us as we turn Friday into Shabas. Today is not Friday of Shabas and it's of Yantiff. It is a double double whammy and it's going to be a beautiful Shabas as we get ready to experience and lean on Shabas to experience and lean into ready for Yant. I want to thank our dear friends in memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sax Ben David. Today is not just Friday. We're not only getting ready for Shabas for Shabas but this Shabas is of Shabu is Sunday night and it's not just a coincidence of the calendar. It's not just that we're able to rest. Now, of course, we are prohibited from saying sleep on Shabas, so you're ready for Y. That would be a prohibition of you're not allowed to prepare for Shabas on Shabas for after Shabas. So, you should not say I'm sleeping so I'm rested for Shabu or nap so you're ready for Shabu. Although we have the privilege and opportunity to rest, to go into sh is more rested than usual, to stay up longer, to learn better, to be more present because we have Shabas, we have Shabas, the day of day of true rest to help us get ready. But it's not just that it is good and a coincidence of the calendar that enables us to get ready. It's that Shabas is the Shabas is the energy that we bring into. So beautiful teaching. The great holy writes on the shabas before a Jew needs to prepare. Make yourself into a vessel. Be ready to be at the mountain. Be ready to receive the Torah. Chronologically in the Torah, Shabas was given before already. Already already in the desert, the mitzvah of Shabas was given to us. We were already given in Mora, we were given the mitzvah of Shabas. That means even before we became the Jewish people at the base of that mountain, even before Hashem spoke in that moment of divine revelation, we already had Shabas. Shabas therefore precedes un honoring and experiencing and leaning in and laughing and singing, singing and resting and loving. Shabas is the way a Jew gets ready for says this. It's written We rested on the seventh day and from there we travel to Hari. It means that you go into matan tora with a sense of shabas with an that was you don't run into shuas. You don't find yourself at the mountain ready to receive the Torah distracted so much noise so many to-dos so much technology shabas the presence the mindfulness the consciousness the rest the nama that is the nama that is on fire that is the way that a Jew gets ready that prepares we take that and that's how we head to together says it's with the energy and it's with the strength it's with theense of Shabas that we go to says Shabas is a time of all week long we're running we're overlapping we don't see we don't spend time Shabas Shabas we're reunited with our family we spend time endless sudos meals we're not looking or scrolling or answering or responding we're not running or going we're simply present the actus of community we come to shul we're in one community we're united United, we're connected. Shabas is a time of so we get ready. We become the claybo. We become the vessel to go to harina to receive the Torah. We get ready by uniting by becoming one. And we get ready by being not distracted was the greatest signal broadcast. Hashem sent out a loud signal. He spoke to us with a tremendous revelation. But can you pick up the signal? Will you hear the message? Can you hear him still talking to us today? Or is there too much noise, too much static, too much going on? The way that we turn off that noise, the way that we turn down that static, the way that we extend that antenna and pick up the signal is shabas. So says this is the way that we go into sh is with shabas. So today, we're not only turning our Friday into shabas, we're turning our Friday into a shabasimos. This is the last of the seven tim pure and holy and whole shabases. The seven shabases shabas timos that bridge pes to shabu. We're coming to shabu from a position of strength. So I know people have been working hard. It's not easy. You got to cook meals for shabas and then shabu. You're preparing maybe the milik and the fleshik. I'm preparing drshas and shir. There's a lot going on. But don't just prepare physically. Don't just prepare the gashmas. Prepare brookn. Turn Friday into er of shabas. Friday into er of shabuas. Get ready. Become that clbo. Become that vessel. Be ready to receive the energy, the holiness, the signal from above. Be ready to stand at that mountain united and healed as one to receive that timeless Torah that will continue to inform and inspire. Wishing you the happiest, the holiest, the healthiest Ashabas. Ashabas that brings besos to Yeshuos. Please guide. We should stand at the mountain together with all the hostages and our soldiers all whole and all healed all united as one to receive Hashem's sacred Torah. Wishing you a beautiful sh [Music]