Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #235 - Creating Rest

[music] Good. Shabas everybody. Today's my shables. >> [chant] [music] >> Friday of Shabas. Today Shabas and we are turning our Friday into Shabas and we're doing so thanks for the generosity of our dear friends Meni and Fredo in memory of Rabbi Rabbi Lord Jonathan Saxen David. I want to build on something we said last week. Last week we spoke about Shabasa created something new when he created Shabas. I I thought Shabas is the end of creation. Shabas is the end of creation. It's the end of creation in terms of the 39 categories of creative labor. But he created something new that didn't exist. And what was the thing that didn't exist? Babas. When we stop, when we cease, when we're happy with what we have, that's when we have. That's when we have peace of mind. When we're running and chasing and doing, then we're never ever satisfied. We're never happy. We have no peace of mind. So, let's just continue that same. rested from all the work he did. That God created to do. What does that mean? That word everybody asks. We're all familiar with it. We say it. It's part of our kdish. It's part of our doning. But what does it mean? This is a combination. Turn Friday into aros shabas and a little kittish sitter snippet. What do you mean lassos? So the in theorus quotes the shalom who says the following. It can explain it in two ways. Shabas six days of the week a Jew needs to be occupied and preoccupied with preparing for shabas. Today is Sunday. All the days are oriented around how close are we? How many days has it been since Shabas? How many days is it in the count towards Shabas? But there is no Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday for a Jewish shabas shabas. All of our weekdays are working so that when shabas comes, the payday theoras of when shabas comes I can lean in I can experience I can elevate I can find the holiness. So the six days are preparing literally it means shopping and cooking and setting a table and inviting guests. It also means spiritually becoming who we could and should be to have the most and says the shalom says the amus directly proportional to the preparation we put in is the holiness and what we'll get out of Shabas. If you try to wing it, if you run into Shabas last minute of the 18 minutes, if you're not really ready, then not only physically will you have nothing to eat, not only will your table not be set, not only will you not be dressed for Shabas, but spiritually you won't be able to feel and experience and be elevated and be transformed by Shabas. tells us that whoever prepares toils, [snorts] puts themselves out on Shabas, we'll have what to eat on Shabas. So that don't doesn't only mean physically, it means spiritually. Do we do chuva and repair? Do we figure out where we went wrong? Do we pride in what we did right? How do we understand and inter and interpret our week so that we can go into shabas trying to prepare to do better in the week that will be? Shabas after because you know what's coming another Shabas. We get it wrong. We get it backwards. We think that Shabas is so we can rest for the week. Oh, I'm so tired. I've barely slept. What a week it's been. Shabas. I'm going to eat and sleep and rest and laugh and play so that I have the energy for the next week. No. The whole point and purpose of the week is to be able to have Shabas. Shabas is the Shabas is the tlas. Shabas is the essence. Shabas is the goal. Shabas is the all week long we work so that we can have Shabas. All week long we prepare. We get ready. What am I going to say? What story? What provocative question? What game will we play? What joke or story will I share? How will we laugh and bond? How will we rest? How can I lean in and get the most out of Shabas? But it doesn't happen on its own. It happens only when we put in the prep and the time. And therefore, another Shabas. We have one Shabas and then we get back to work for a week to get ready for the next Shabas. So the Shabas is not to get ready for the week. The week is to get ready for Shabas. And this is very important to our mentality. We turn Friday into of Shabas when on Friday we don't say, "Oh, thank God. Shabas is coming. I'm going to pass out. I set the timer on the lights to go out right away so the meal can't go on because I just want to pass out because what a week it's been." That is not the purpose of Shabas. It's the opposite. It's that Shab all week long I work so that I can have Shabas. Shabas is the payday. Shabas is the purpose. Shabas is the goal. Shabas is the destination. Even though we're refraining, we're resting from doing the So what's If Shabas is all about being at rest and not doing work, then what did God do? What is the creation? What is theos? Because this is the place. What did he create? Resting. Being at rest is work. Being at rest is creation of something new. Is the creation of something new. That's the great reward for the effort that we put into the resting itself. On this Friday, as we're turning our Friday into Shabas, it's not Friday. It's shabases. And Shabases means not, oh, thank God TGIF. Thank God it's Friday. I could pass out. I could rest. I could relax. I could I look forward to Shabas. It's that Shabas is the Mccor braha. So spend Friday getting ready. Spend Shabas building up. Put on great music. Put a skip in your step. Put extra flavor in the food. Set the table and set yourself up for a great shabas. A story tora. Be ready because only doesn't just mean physically will you have what to eat. Y means will you eat from the holiness and the beauty will you be transformed. Maybe a holy, healthy, a happy, a wonderful Shabas first. [music] >> [music and singing]