No News on Shabbos | Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #263

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Sacks. And in memory of Mendy's father, Yeshua Chaim ben Shmuel. So, I want to tell you why Shabbos means so much to me, particularly right now. It's been a very difficult week for Klal Yisrael in general, in general, and specifically the immense and horrific losses, some sad circumstances. But the big picture that all Am Yisrael, our whole people should feel connected with is the danger, the threat from Iran, from an axis of evil in the Middle East, from our own infighting and divisiveness. There are so many things that seem wrong. And whereas I used to feel very attuned to want to check what's in the news, what's the latest, what's happening, certainly we've gotten spoiled with all the challenges of the last few years to check the news and see another enemy we set back, another enemy we wiped out, another enemy we defeated, another enemy that we were able to compromise. Now we turn on the news and unfortunately we don't even recognize. And there are things that are so disturbing and frightening that we don't even know what was going to be. And that that is exactly where Shabbos comes in. And that is my challenge to you and to myself this week. Is that so often, so often we sit around our Shabbos table and we talk about, we analyze, we conjecture, we speculate about what's going to be. But Shabbos has to be our cocoon, our ear miklat, our city of refuge. Shabbos is the place that protects us. Shabbos reminds us that Hashem is in charge and everything's going to be okay. And stop talking about and stop worrying about those other things. Of course on Shabbos we still daven for our holy brothers and sisters, for the soldiers of the army, for Klal Yisrael and Am Yisrael in so many circumstances. But those

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2. 1:01attuned to want to check what's in the news, what's the latest, what's happening, certainly we've…
3. 1:33sit around our Shabbos table and we talk about, we analyze, we conjecture, we speculate about…
4. 3:49elaborates and he says what it also means is that on Arab Shabbos, we have a…
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6. 4:51many other things to talk about. Ideas, big ideas, ambitions, dreams, people, connections, faith, Hashem, to…
7. 5:22shut it off, shut it down, retreat, return, hashavas aveda, take that aveda, that lost item,…
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