We think Shabbos is special.
- By Rabbi Landau
- Duration: 59 seconds
Concepts: Receiving Shabbos
Rabbi Landau teaches We think Shabbos is special.
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We think Shabbos is special.
It’s not.
It’s normal.
The rest of the week is the distortion.
The stress, the rush, the noise, that’s the sickness.
Shabbos is the cure, the reset to who you really are.
Before the sin, Adam lived that way all the time.
No deadlines. No fear. No limits.
The Zohar says, six hours before Shabbos,
he tasted the Light of Creation itself.
And when Shabbos came in,
says Midrash Shocher Tov,
it defended him, pulled him out of judgment.
Rabbi Sholom Landau explains:
“The reason we forget the basics, peace, presence, faith,
is because we spend six days trying to survive,
instead of remembering that we were never meant to live in survival mode.”
Because Shabbos is the world before the fall.
It’s not a break from life, it’s life unbroken.
That’s why Chazal say,
“Whoever delights in Shabbos inherits נחלה בלי מצרים,”
an unlimited inheritance,
not because he earns it,
but because for one day,
he stands where he already belongs.
Shabbos isn’t extraordinary.
It’s the world as it was meant to be.
Everything else is exile.
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