Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #256 – No Holiness Without Preparation

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Good erev Shabbos today is not Friday today is erev Shabbos we still can't hear music because we're in that time and period of the year but we hear the music playing in our head as we are counting up getting ready and excited for Shabbos we always need Shabbos who doesn't need Shabbos Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos is generously sponsored by Mendy and Tzipporah Fishman zechus l'chaya רבקה בת ציפורה פרידל and in memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks יעקב צבי בן דוד אריה and it is also sponsored by the P4P team Professionals for Positions for inquiries email Mark with a C m a r c at p 4 p dot team t e a m Friday today is not Friday as we say today is erev Shabbos our Parshas Kedoshim two parshiyos Achrei Mos-Kedoshim what does it mean Kedoshim Kedusha live a life of holiness and there are all kinds of answers the Ramban Rashi interpretations separate apart different but there's another definition of Kedoshim that I think is relevant for us as we're getting ready as we're getting excited as we're counting up for Shabbos and that is the Mevasser Tzedek says והייתם לי קדשים כי קדוש אני ואבדיל אתכם the Rebbe the Rebbe Reb Shmelke mi-Nikolsburg understood he taitched קדשים תהיו כי קדוש אני Kedoshim mi-lashon hachana the word holy or sacred comes from readiness preparation holiness and sanctity is not something you stumble upon you don't simply fall into it a person has to get ready a person has to prepare a person has to adjust a person has to get in a mindset and put themselves in a space and a place שתהיו תמיד מוכנים ומזומנים להשראת הקדושה we have to be a vessel in order to receive that sanctity and that holiness you know someone could give you the greatest gift in the world all this money all these jewels but if you have nothing to collect it nothing to hold it you walk away empty handed Shabbos comes Hashem its greatest gift he gives us we're in the middle of this technology challenge we're five days in and baruch Hashem close to twenty three hundred people taking part in it every day a little challenge for thirty days just thirty days and we're trying to re-establish our relationship with our phones and with our technology we're trying to step back and stop being addicted so that there's space for all this blessing that there is all around us including the holy and the sacred Shabbos Shabbos almost doesn't need a challenge because Shabbos itself for twenty four twenty five hours we disconnect from technology and to-dos and tasks and we reconnect to what matters ourselves Hashem our family the people around us but there's this gift this storehouse this treasure מתנה טובה יש לי בבית גנזי Hashem says I have a gift for you that I'm holding called Shabbos but if you give me the gift and I have nothing to collect it nothing to hold it then I'm not ready for it person has to be in a place to get ready that's the charge of Kedoshim Tiyu you want a Shabbos Kodesh the Kedusha the Shabbos Kodesh the holiness of Shabbos is getting ready it's today's the avoda of today it's turning our Friday into erev Shabbos we changed the clock Fridays are now longer there are almost no excuses to get ready to be ready earlier to have be waiting for Shabbos instead of Shabbos be waiting for us because we're running late or in the last of our eighteen minutes כי קדוש אני ה' rotzo lomar says Reb Shmelke כי הקדוש ברוך הוא מוכן ומזומן תמיד להשרות עליכם הקדושה Hashem is always waiting he's ready he wants to shower us with blessing with beracha ואם תכינו עצמכם מיד תשרה עליכם but we have to be that vessel we have to be prepared we have to be ready we have to be able to capture it והייתם לי קדשים שתעשו אתם הכנה לקבל הקדושה מלמעלה כי קדוש אני ה' מוכן להשפיע עליכם קדושה so the way he understood it not connected to Shabbos in particular but generally speaking Hashem is always ready and prepared he wants to bestow upon us he has gifts he wants to grant us and give us but we have to be in that place we have to be able to receive we have to be open to connecting that's the avoda of Friday the hachana the preparation because אין קדושה בלי הכנה there is no holiness without preparation so today's not Friday today's erev Shabbos get ready and be ready and be excited and joyful and besimcha be happy while you're doing it setting a table preparing the food setting up the leichter showering getting dressed being ready we don't normally the music that normally accompanies us and gets us ready in the mood we don't have so we have to work even harder but that hachana you want a beautiful Shabbos you want a transformative Shabbos you want a Shabbos that stays with you and lasts forever it doesn't happen by accident it doesn't happen if we're casual it doesn't happen because we didn't prepare we have to prepare we have to get ready so that's your homework some preparations you don't need me to tell you we all know we have to cook and set the table and get ready but do you have a dvar Torah do you have a great story do you have a great question do you have great reading material do you have great things that you want to learn have you set aside what shiur you want to go to are you prepared coming into the Shabbos is there a plan how it's going to be a sacred one don't stumble don't trip but come into Shabbos strong come empowered come ready be that vessel so Hashem can give us that מתנה טובה יש לי בבית גנזי he'll give us that sacred and that great gift we'll be able to receive it we'll be transformed and changed by it אין קדושה בלי הכנה Kedoshim Tiyu if you want a Shabbos that's Kodesh turn Friday into erev Shabbos. Friday into Erev Shabbos by going and getting ready right now.

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