Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #264 - Turn Someone Else's Friday into Erev Shabbos

As I mentioned, we find ourselves in these days.

And the Mor V'Shemesh, the Holy Mor V'Shemesh, writes in Parshas Dvarim, he writes, He says that we have a tradition that these Shabbases, these Holy Shabbases that Davka fall out during the three weeks, we read these three sad Haftorahs, the Gimel de Baranusa, these cautions, these words, the... divrei and shimu and chazon, Rav Tzedek HaKon says we have to be careful with how we speak and what we listen to and how we see the world.

And the opening word of each of these three Haftorahs is the formula to get out of this condition, out of this position.

So on the one hand, all three weeks, including Shabbos, are a very low place.

It's a very low reality.

It's a reality that Jews around the world feel we feel today with the uncertainty with iran and the uncertainty with the rise of anti-semitism and our place and our condition in the world certainly the gullus is not hard to feel and yet zakta marva shemesh the holy marva shemesh says that shabbos during the beta mitsarim Shabbos davka during these three weeks are incredibly holy, incredibly high.

You see, if you go into a room that's light and you light a candle, the light doesn't contribute much.

You could barely discern it.

You barely identify it.

You barely feel its presence.

When you come into a dark room and there's darkness, a deep, deep darkness, and you light even one single flame, one small light, that small light in the backdrop against all that darkness, it does something big.

So all year long, the six days of the week, we're in a place of positivity, in a place of the music playing, in a place of simcha, in a place of feeling Hashem.

So the light of Shabbos adds certainly, it contributes, but it's already light all week long.

B'davka during these days says, when the six days of the week, we're not getting a haircut, we're not shaving, we're not listening to music soon, we won't be eating meat, when we're feeling the lowliness, and we're feeling the insecurity and the inadequacy, and we're feeling the consequence of the poor choices and mistakes that we've made, it's against that darkness of the weekday that Shabbos comes.

All of a sudden, we put on our big day Shabbos, our Shabbos clothing.

And all of a sudden, we're singing the song of Shabbos.

And all of a sudden, we're eating our delicacies around our Shabbos table.

And even the Shabbos is during the nine days.

Shabbos Haverav Tisha B'Av.

You eat.

You're eating even like a royal, royal meal.

Rav Shor quotes some more of Hashem as He's saying, expanding, telling us that it's against that backdrop of the darkness or the lowliness that we encounter the light.