The Gift of Shabbat | TORAH FOR KIDS AI

The Gemara says that in Maseches Shabbos that as soon as Shabbos comes in, if a person prepares themselves the right way, meaning a person keeps Shabbos, a person is someone that honors Shabbos, he gets another neshama. He gets a second neshama enters into that person. Some of the hakhamim, some of the tzaddikim that knew how to honor Shabbos literally, literally felt something. Like for example, there's a story from about 40 years ago of one of the gedolei hador was in the hospital literally on his deathbed. Had wires coming in and out of him everywhere, but he was known that every time Shabbos came in, he would dance and go and jump. But now he's old and he's in his deathbed. So everyone, you know, is sad and sitting next to him. The minute that Shabbos came in, all of a sudden they all of a sudden they saw it. All of a sudden they literally saw him get up like a 20-year-old, take out all the wires out of his body and start dancing in the hospital. As soon as Shabbos was over, he went back to the deathbed. He died. Mamash, the extra neshama, he felt it. Al vay lanu, to feel it too. So that neshama enters, that second neshama enters. That neshama should give you a special feeling of holiness, a special feeling of kedusha, closeness to Hashem, especially if you're learning Torah on Shabbos, which gets a reward that's a thousand times more significant than learning Torah during the rest of the week. Now, at the end of Shabbos, when you do havdalah, that neshama leaves. And part of the reason of why we smell the incense is because the neshama that's left feels sad. So the incense makes it feel good. It gives it like a good feeling, okay, it's gone, but don't worry, it's going to be okay, it's going to come back next week. It's like almost like a little going away party for the neshama that's left. Okay, listen, I'll be back next week. What about the fingernails? So Rav Kook in Midrash Ma'ayan Ha'Omer says, remember that when you leave the kedusha, there's a lot of danger. Why? We learn from Adam HaRishon. Adam Harishon was such a beautiful being that his skin was shining like a diamond. It was so beautiful and so big that the Malachim, the angels thought he was God in human form. That's why Hashem put him to sleep. The angels know, oh, he's not God. Why? Hashem doesn't go to sleep. But they thought he was God for a second. That's how beautiful he was. Huge and beautiful and shining like the sun. The only thing that Hashem left us that resembles part of his beauty is how our nails look like when they're really shining against the fire. So, Havdalah is supposed to remind us, listen, you're supposed to you're leaving the beauty, you're leaving the Kedusha right now. That's what your nails are for. But also remember what the nails also represent. It's a beauty that unfortunately was minimized. Why? Because Adam Harishon sinned. So, now you're leaving the holy, but don't go and stop being holy. You have to be holy the rest of the week and start already preparing for Shabbat already on Motzei Shabbat. So, that's why we have the fire, but even more so why we act the way we do as far as looking at our nails against the fire. >> I say thank Hashem for more Torah. 1 2 3 1 2 3