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Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #207 - No More Oy Vey

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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fisherman for their generosity I want to learn a peace with you raita has begun a shabas releasing D Tor specifically about chabas and he's a beautiful idea a beautiful essay this week that I want to share with you that helps turn off Friday into a shabas as we get ready we count up with excitement with energy with enthusiasm shabas is not a time to relax to let down shabas is not a time to escape or turn off shabas is a time to gear up and to reconnect to what matters most to re invent ourselves to reestablish our relationships to reconnect with hem it says the P says that when Friday comes the once shabas comes of the is the source of we have an expanded we have an extra we have a more finely attuned we've spoken about it so many times that our soul is not competing with our body our soul is not distracted by this world our soul is reconnected to what matters most and it's therefore it's you know we say in ourish that sh sorry commemorates creation but it's also it also commemorates The Exodus what does it have to do with the Exodus thousands of years ago what does it have to do with leaving slavery when were we ever enslaved so as well as the med Raba tells us on our para that in fact in MIT in Egypt under the servitude in that slavery

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  1. 0:30fisherman for their generosity I want to learn a peace with you raita has begun a…
  2. 1:00invent ourselves to reestablish our relationships to reconnect with hem it says the P says that…
  3. 1:31what matters most and it's therefore it's you know we say in ourish that sh sorry…
  4. 2:32we're enslaved by this world shabas comes and liberates us emancipates us it frees us we're…
  5. 3:03means that theam it means that a person is able to transcend the body the soul…
  6. 4:05soulfulness when a person is able to live the when the soul is expanded we get…
  7. 4:35we're distracted all week long we're fighting and struggling and all week long we're overcoming and…
  8. 5:05challenges we have personally collectively they'll all be there but when shabas starts oh when chabas…
  9. 6:12says this is The Ultimate Gift the greatest gift that we could get is shabas so…
  10. 6:43and tired and angry and frustrated so before you light the candles tonight on your way…

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