Wash Off the Weekday | Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #261

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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.

to the Zohar in Parshas Vayakel. K'ad ayl Shabbasa, when Shabbos enters, Yisrael inyan Am Kadisha, the holy Jewish people Yisrael mayumin mushi d'chol, we have to wash ourselves off from the weekday activities. The Zohar Hakadosh is assuming that when a person is engaged in the weekday, the pursuit, the work, the accumulation, the amassing, the ambition, the aspiration, the kibbusha, the conquering of the world, that weekday version of us, it leaves a residue. And therefore, it needs to be washed off, it needs to be rinsed, it needs to be cleansed. Mai ta'ama, asks the Zohar, b'gin d'chol ruach acharina azla b'shati b'shara d'alma, because during the week there is a a ruach, there's an energy, there's a spirit that wanders, and it settles on the people. The God body by national and after when a person wants to depart or elevate or or remove themselves from that energy or from that spirit, and instead to enter some elevated holy or spirit, what do you need to do? How do you do it? Boy, it's hard to wash yourself so holy elevated spirit can rest upon him. Some of the Zohars are endorsing the minute that many have to go to the mikvah on Arab Shabbos. Many men go to the mikvah in order to prepare, in order to cleanse, in order to purify, to come into Shabbos born anew. The way the mikvah works is a person is completely completely without clothing, no barrier whatsoever to the water. They're like the day they were born, and

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1. 1:12to the Zohar in Parshas Vayakel. K'ad ayl Shabbasa, when Shabbos enters, Yisrael inyan Am Kadisha,…
2. 1:44be cleansed. Mai ta'ama, asks the Zohar, b'gin d'chol ruach acharina azla b'shati b'shara d'alma, because…
3. 2:15you do it? Boy, it's hard to wash yourself so holy elevated spirit can rest upon…
4. 2:45that water, which is natural water or connected to natural water, has the status of embryonic…
5. 3:16understand that no, maybe what it means to wash is to spiritually cleanse ourselves. It means…
6. 3:47that when the Gamorah and later the halacha says that a person should wash on Arab…
7. 4:18anger, I'm washing off the envy, the jealousy, I'm washing off whatever I went wrong during…
8. 4:51endorse, the Chayei Adam, and brought down by many others, or it means or it means…
9. 5:21those things as well. So whether you go to the mikvah today literally, or you're taking…

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