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Sheket B'Vakasha: The Quiet Shabbos Needs | Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #264

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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Anonymous. I want to share with you a beautiful teaching from the great Reb Avraham Shor Shlita. Should continue to have a refuah shleimah. We say on Shabbos at Mincha Yom Menucha Kedusha Lam Chanasa. Hashem, you gave us this day of Shabbos. And what's the day of Shabbos? It's of course a day to daven, a day to learn, a day to live, a day to laugh, a day to sit at our table, but it's a day of Menucha U'Kedusha. A day of rest, of tranquility, of peace, and a day of holiness, a day of sanctity. And then we explain, we elaborate, there are three languages of Menucha. Menuchas Ahava U'Nedava, Menuchas Emes V'Emunah, Menuchas Shalom V'Shalva Hashkeet U'Vetecha. The first Menucha Ahava U'Nedava, there is a rest of love and graciousness, a rest of truth and faith, and a rest of peace and tranquility and quiet. Chazal came to try to define, writes Reb Shor, this Menucha, this peace that we're trying to arrive at on Shabbos. Shabbos is not just about how much sleep you could get, how much food you could eat. Shabbos is about a different type of rest, a rest which is not just physical, a tranquility, a

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  1. 0:40Anonymous. I want to share with you a beautiful teaching from the great Reb Avraham Shor…
  2. 1:11Ahava U'Nedava, Menuchas Emes V'Emunah, Menuchas Shalom V'Shalva Hashkeet U'Vetecha. The first Menucha Ahava U'Nedava, there…
  3. 1:42peace, a peace of mind, a sense of being whole, a sense of being complete. How…
  4. 2:12that knowledge, that Hashem is in charge, Hashem is in control, we can let go, and…
  5. 2:43to a place of all of my work is done? How do you get to that…
  6. 3:45more menucha we can have. And which is the day to find that menucha? Shabbos. Shabbos,…
  7. 4:18ro'eh es hatov banigleh. When do you have emuna? When you when you can't see the…
  8. 4:49kol kol ha'olam. Kol ha'olam mafri'a l'adam. We don't hear all the voices, all the sounds,…
  9. 5:20into erev Shabbos by starting to quiet our mind and our lives. What are you going…
  10. 5:51Shabbos and every Shabbos what we're looking for is menucha. Wholeness, peace of mind, peace, quiet,…

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