Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #79 - Lighting Without Stress

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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.

friday into arab shabbos and we are learning maya morgenstern but before we do i want to invoke and i want to remind everyone of something really special really incredible uh there's a holy blessed member of our community who are currently is very sadly in the midst of sitting shiva hermitia volvoski for the loss of his very very special mother and he shared with me that his mother once wrote to the rebel about the stresses of her many responsibilities she was an extraordinary woman and there we wrote back four words hadlocas neros those were his four words she wrote those were his four words she wrote about the stresses of her many responsibilities and he wrote back light the candles with no pressure that i want a woman make sure to light the shabbos candles in an environment with no stress that will have an emotional impact on their well-being for the entire week long not just the way you go into shabbos not just for that shabbos neros if a person have mindfulness and the presence and the consciousness to light the shabbos candles with no sense of pressure not on the clock not in a rush now with a list of things that haven't yet happened then the sense of calm and

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1. 1:02friday into arab shabbos and we are learning maya morgenstern but before we do i want…
2. 1:33those were his four words she wrote about the stresses of her many responsibilities and he…
3. 2:05yet happened then the sense of calm and peace that they could bring to the lighting…
4. 2:35online people are swarming and swamping people are rushing to take advantage to pursue material possessions…
5. 3:36we make for shabbos with all the shopping and all the cooking and all the preparing…
6. 4:07meet after all the shopping and all the preparation of the beautifully set table it begins…
7. 4:38we're going we light those candles because the shabbos candles bring us shall unbiased they are…
8. 5:38white tablecloth and we wear a white shirt and we invoke the imagery of the light…
9. 6:08haven't happened and don't have tension and don't have anger a few deep breaths nishamah for…
10. 6:38it's not about the body take a few deep nishimos in order to restore the neshama…

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