Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #227 - Transform the Atmosphere on Erev Shabbos

Oh, [Music] [Applause] welcome back. We are back from Friday. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Today may feel like Friday, but it is not Friday. In fact, it is Arab Shabas. We are here to turn a Friday into Arab Shabas after a little break. It is great to be back. I want to thank our generous sponsors for sponsoring turn Friday into Shabas Fredal in memory of Rabbi Jonathan Saxen David Ary. When I was in this summer, I had the privilege to meet the of someone who's bench a great great grandchild of Morai and it was a privilege he one of his farm he put out the or Moshe on Shabas Kesh a beautiful beautiful safer I'm grateful to have been introduced him by my friend Lippy who gave me the safer as well and I want to share with you some of the Torah that he has in here and preparing us for Shabas and Arab Shabas such beautiful such hal such holy holy teachings that come from the reba of particularly meaningful for me because earlier this summer my wife and I were in bush where of is buried right next to him is my wife's great greatgrandfather of Misha Brookstein who was close with him and so to hear the Torah read the Torah learn the Torah particularly of the holy shabas is something that is very personally meaningful to me so he says in here the following he quotes about the significance of shabas writes in Shabas, we know that a Jew wakes up Friday morning eager and ready to prepare for Shabas. Friday is not any other day. Friday is no ordinary day. Friday is not Friday at all. It's of Shabas. And the way we demonstrate it's of Shabas is by waking up ready and prepared to to get ready for Shabas. It was Shabas. A beautiful there. writes the sweat, the sweat that a person sweats preparing for Shabas. Whatever mistakes we made all week long, whatever we looked at, whatever we said, wherever we went, however we came up short, whatever mistakes we made all week long, those mistakes are written, those mistakes are inscribed. How do we erase the inscription of those mistakes? It is the sweat. The sweat is the eraser. The sweat are like the tears that erase whatever mistakes we made. So if a person mops and shops and cooks and cleans and sets a table, whatever effort, whatever energy you put into preparing for Shabas and you do it with joy, we'll get to in a moment. You do the that sweat, it serves to erase the mistakes of the whole week. And therefore, a person has to make an effort. Don't just delegate. The Gar tells us even those wealthy great rabbis who could have paid and delegated others to do, they got involved themselves. They were preparing, they were cleaning, they were cooking, they were setting because the effort, the sweat we literally produced in preparing for Shabas, it serves to erase whatever mistakes we made. He continues Moshe writes, you want blessing in your life, don't look for shortcuts. Don't look for schoolos. You want blessing in your life. Shabas is the mccor braha. Shabas is the source of all braha. So the more we prepare, the more we get ready, the more we honor, the more we elevate. Shabas, the more we bring into our lives. So it's not some shortcut. Don't do some schoola. Shabas is the source. The mura, the more we prepare for it, get ready, the more excited, the more we march toward Shabas. He quotes here from the holy shabas that when we spread out when we put the tablecloth on the shabas table it's a special a special idea to set the shabas table don't wait don't wait till the man goes off the sh till you lit candles don't wait till moments before don't scream don't yell don't fight but if a person can set their shabas table on shabas before midday Shabas says the holy that if you have a set table for shabas it is a school it is predisposes it's auspicious it helps us avoid strife and fighting an air of shabas you can explain this metaphysically the energy of having the table set but I think you can also explain it some simply that if there's a shabas environment already in the home you're not going to fight around the set shabas table the fact that The table has the white tablecloth. It's already set with the leer with the candles. It already is set with the kala board and it's already set with the becca with the holy kdish cup. The fact that the shabas table is set means it changes the environment. It changes the atmosphere. It changes the way we communicate and interact. So ordinarily the fighting, the strife, the pressure of an air of shabas. If you can set your table before midday, says the school, it helps erase the energy. It helps combat and overcome the energy that brings that strife and that fighting on Shabas. So a few ideas how we can turn our Friday into Shabas. Be mindful, be conscientious, don't delegate, don't give to others, but do ourselves says it's a big to wake up and getting ready, be prepared, contribute. What do you do? Do you set the table? Do you set the candles? Do you shop? Do you cook? Do you mop? What's your job? What's your role? Even if you can afford, don't delegate. Don't ask others. But do it ourselves. And the sweat, the exertion, what we put into preparing for Shabas, it erases our mistakes of the week, says if Shabas is the being excited and ready and preparing, it brings and into our lives. And the Jik says, set the table. Set the table. If you could set it Thursday nighter, if you set it Thursday night, Friday morning, you wake up to a Shabas atmosphere in a set table. But minimally, we should try to put the white tablecloth on the table. Even though you can't set the table, just a white tablecloth on the table before a small kabala. We find ourselves in we're getting ready for rash. Maybe something we could take upon ourselves is put the white tablecloth on the table before midday before. And that way when you come back after midday, when kids come home from school, when you come back from work, when the home is filled with getting ready for Shabas, it's doing so already with the white and the light of a set table of a Shabas table of a Shabas table of cloth that changes the whole atmosphere. Mash will pick up next week and next time beautiful teachings of the significance of Shabas and of getting ready and of what it means. May be a holy Shabas, a happy Shabas, a healthy Shabas, a Shabas of Bisuros to Yeshua. [Music]