Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #222 - Fulfill Your Promise

[Music] Y I'm give [Music] the truth is it' be so much better even than my sharing you insights turn Friday night of Shabas just playing what could get a person in the mood more than just listening to the holy the turn Friday and memory revel Jonathan Zach every shabas is special every shabas is unique every shabas is pregnant with possibility and meaning and growth and this shabas comes after an abbreviated week we had yont and kutzar on Monday and Tuesday that meant by the time we made havdalah on mo yont it was of shabas because Wednesday is Wednesday is already air of Shabas. By the time Yontiff ended Tuesday night, it was er of Shabas. We went from Yontiff essentially into this short weekend getting ready for Shabas. And the truth is maybe you're sick and tired of cooking. And I'm sick and tired of cooking up dressers and shim and we're tired. It was an exhausting beautiful and uplifting but exhausted and we're tempted to stumble or fall into Shabas but we can't. This Shabas is a special Shabas. It's no ordinary Shabas. Sadikim call this Shabas. The Shabas that follows the holiday of Shabu. And this Shabas we continue. We build on what we achieved and what we accomplished and who we became are Kabala Torah. We receive the Torah, the promise and the pledge to learn it, to live it, to embrace it with enthusiasm, with a fire, with the fire of Hari Besa, the same demeanor, the same disposition, the same posture that we did at Hari to continue to show that passion, that learning, that love, that Torah informs and inspires every part of our lives. Shabas Shabas, we're continuing, we're building on that energy. And in there's the notion of we're not saying many because you can still make up for the carbon that wasn't brought that day for a full seven days following even maybe au can be recited whatever the technical details but we're still in the we're in the time we're still feeling that we're at the mountain we're still drawing the energy and the inspiration of sh in fact writes he quotes and add more every week at the time of it is an auspicious time. Every Shabas afternoon, the holiest time of the week, the time of Shabasimos. We counted not just one great Shabas that culminates in Shabash. We counted seven complete whole full Shabases. Cheva Shabasosimos. Seven beautiful Shabases that bridged us from Pes to Shabu. Now shu mean the holiday of sh that comes from week seven weeks but the word shu means a week and the word shau also means an oath a promise to swear we swear to hashem that we're not just going to leave yontiff we didn't go through yontiff yontiff went through us that we were transformed we're changed we walk away different we walk away improved we walk away better shàu is a yontiff that's not just the end of seven weeks. Shabu is a yant that we take a shabua. We take a promise and a pledge. Hashem, I'm in a relationship. I'm devoted. I feel connected. I'm going to make time. I'm going to communicate. And that's what Shabas is all about. We go into Shabas to fulfill that promise and pledge to disconnect from technology tasks and to do and to reconnect to Hashem, to reconnect to his Torah. Even though we came from Shabus, we came from that mountain and we lost the two crowns of Nasishma with theel when we worshiped the idol, we lost those two crowns. But nevertheless, every Shabas we get them back. Shabas, we come back to the mountain. Even though all week long we're entering the world, we go back to life and the everyday world, the mundane Shabas, we come back to the mountain. Shabas is like hari all over again. Every Shabas, we put those crowns back on our head. And it begins with the shabas. It begins with the shabas after shabus. The majo is the longest. The zesh on this para is unusually esoteric and long because this shabas is the shabas of that accompanies the longest para. It's a shabas of total learning. So unlike rash, you put the chauffeur away when it's over. Unlike sukus, you take down your suka and you get rid of your dal. Unlike kaneka, you put away the minora. When Shivus ends, you don't put away the Torah. You just begin to take it out to lean in, to make time, to learn, to listen, to love the Torah in our lives. That's what this special shabas is all about. Shabas. So, it's not ordinary Shabas. It's a Shabas that's anat. And this is the biggest. The biggest issu when we take what we accomplished and achieved, who we became, what we tapped into, we broke through barriers. People stayed up all night learning. When can you stay up? It's hard to break through and push through those barriers, that resistance to go to that share to have that to continue to learn. We push through. We heard the story of Russ and every one of us joined her journey and became a convert. We want to convert and we want to get rid of the the non-Jew in us, the non-Jewish music or non-Jewish culture or non-Jewish dress or non-Jewish prioritizing, non-Jewish thinking, but we lean in. Not that there's anything wrong, but we're uniquely Jewish. The Torah made us apart, exceptional. The Torah gave us responsibility, privilege, and obligation. And so on, we discovered who we really are. You chose us and now we put it into practice and put it into play. Shabas as we get ready to go into this Shabas as we transform today this Friday into Shabas but no ordinary Arab Shabas Shabas every shabas of Shabas to fulfill the shua the oath we took on shu that we're going to continue that even though it was a short week and we're tired even though it was a short week and here we are having to cook again and prepare again and clean again and set a table again but nevertheless we do it with a bin with a fire with an enthusiasm with an excitement with a sense of privilege to go into Shabas in this exceptional way. May have shabas that brings Yeshua's good news and good tidings for Israel. [Music] Shabashu is shine. He's