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Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #67 - God's Playlist

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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study of beyond richard morgenstern who is helping been helping us get ready and turn friday into erev shabbos that friday is not any ordinary day of the week but friday the energy the feeling the flavors the smell the aroma the tastes the attitude the table the cl everything everything exudes shabbos we're counting down to attackless myself all six days we're working so hard because of shabbos shabbos we're not resting up for the week the week we work in order to get to the heilig of the holy the holy shabbat shabbas is we refer to it in our dhavaning it is the source of all the blessing is shabbos if you neglect shabbos if you count down for shabbas to end instead of for it to begin then you're neglecting a blessing in life how many around us how much of the world would give anything to have the self-control the discipline to have the ritual to disconnect from the data disconnect from the news disconnect from the sadness disconnect from the challenges and we have that gift hashem reached into his storehouse and he took out the greatest gift sacred that reflects the connection the intimacy between us and him called shabbas no technology no to-do list no responsibilities no travel no shabbos allows us to re-engage with ourselves to remind us who we are and to reinforce those relationships within our lives our relationship in adam the people around us our family our friends relationship in we spoke about last week to once again

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  1. 1:07study of beyond richard morgenstern who is helping been helping us get ready and turn friday…
  2. 2:08reached into his storehouse and he took out the greatest gift sacred that reflects the connection…
  3. 3:08that's one of the ideas of what it means to have an ism we have this…
  4. 4:10look different so how is it we achieve it there are two parts we began this…
  5. 5:11we're miserable and fabulous and we're angry and we're frustrated we're resentful and we're gossiping we're…
  6. 6:18categories of creative labor why because we're at peace with the world around us so our…
  7. 7:19what we're meant to do when we walk into shabbos when we enter shabbos together then…
  8. 8:23he is visible he's accessible but what happens on shabbos shabbos there's nothing to scroll there's…
  9. 9:27and on shabbos is the only time we're disconnected we're allowed to we've shared before the…
  10. 10:28mission when you're going to walk to the shelf or when you're going for that walk…

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