Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #138: Productivity and Productivity Capacity

What’s said in this shiur

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

and where we need to be this I was reading parashus Bahar although this thought is not only relevant if you're listening any week it is important and many people assume the reason we let the land grow lay fallow is because we want the land to rejuvenate we want the land to rest in fact in this context our Parsha uses the language of Shabbos over and over again when you enter the land that I'm giving you let the land rest a Shabbos for Hashem six years you plan six years years you prune and the seventh year Shabbos Shabba song over and over and over again shemitah is given to us in the context using the word Shabbos what is the connection on the one hand Shabbos is the seventh day after six days of work shmita is the seventh year after six years of work clearly there's a cycle of seven going on and yet there's something more the says so it should say six years plant your field and then why is Hashem even before this sixth even before the six years what's going on here about Shabbos so the Assumption one would make is that what is shmita really all about what shabba's really all about so The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen Covey fantastic book if you haven't read it it's a must read really a mustard safer The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Covey develops the idea of what he calls p and PC not political correctness he was

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1. 0:36and where we need to be this I was reading parashus Bahar although this thought is…
2. 1:06years you prune and the seventh year Shabbos Shabba song over and over and over again…
3. 2:08before that P stands for productivity and PC stands for productivity capability productivity capacity not what…
4. 2:39car is going to get you nowhere so the P how fast can I drive it…
5. 3:39if we push if we work too hard if we produce too much we're going to…
6. 4:21it's not just that I rest on Shabbos to rejuvenate and re-energize and get ready to…
7. 5:23God who rested on the seventh day God doesn't need to rest for productivity capability he…
8. 5:53our well-being Shabbos is the destination Shabbos is the goal Shabbos is the tacos I do…
9. 6:55find the energy for Shabbos Shabbos is the tacos so don't find the energy to work…
10. 7:26in the last of your 18 minutes so you could pass out Friday night rest a…

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