Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #216 - The First Shabbos of the Year

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.

memory of her husband our dear friend whom we miss greatly Marvin Hershorn aliyah on his fifth year we are on the first shabas after pes and this shabas is considered to be a great shabasita brings down he quotes from the first shabas after is designated is specifically one in which we can climb even higher and higher we're coming off of pes And instead of being let down by going back into the work into the world, we continue to climb. We continue to elevate. We continue to go higher and higher. Coming off of Pes, we become the count, the march toward Mount Si, to Hari. We're going to stand at that mountain and we're going to receive that Torah, be shaped and molded by the most seinal moment in human history. And so rather than led down, we are climbing up. We're going higher and higher and higher. The says we were supposed to let go. We're supposed to drag and take for ourselves the animal, the god of the Egyptians. We slaughtered that animal in an incredible display of courage and an incredible display of tenacity. And that is very similar to the avodara, what we're trying to get rid of and slaughter and destroy in our lives. Shabas. So mishamik continue carry on add elevate grow whatever high seder night when we saw the gula sed night when we were transformed by not commemorating part of history but living it in the present and then the rest of pes

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1. 0:31memory of her husband our dear friend whom we miss greatly Marvin Hershorn aliyah on his…
2. 1:01continue to climb. We continue to elevate. We continue to go higher and higher. Coming off…
3. 2:04surrounded by friends and family telling the story sharing dorra resting relaxing enjoying we're supposed to…
4. 2:34relief we're counting up to add on mostly we're growing we're adding we're accumulating we're amassing…
5. 3:35hope for all the shabases of the whole year. So this is it. This is our…
6. 4:05surrounded by friends and family, learning, reading, resting, relaxing, singing, storytelling, conversations. We're going in, we're…
7. 5:05quotes from the B of that the notion of is to Shabas. So you say what…
8. 5:36transported to another place called shabas. A different person puts on a shabas panim puts on…
9. 6:38yourself? Taking Shabas a little bit early. Don't wait. Shabas shouldn't be waiting for you. You…
10. 7:09there's a learning opportunity but to lean in and to take advantage of it this is…

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