פרשת וישב slash I went on a tangent about my love for shabbat

Shalommmmm

Here's a quick idea from the Parasha that I feel like sharing with ya people in Eretz America. 

So in this weeks Parasha Vayeshev, it says 

(After Joseph told them his dreams In Which they bowed down to him)

Why does it say שמר?

Rashi says he was looking out. There were 11 stars in Joseph's dream. It's a prophetic dream signaling Hashem's plan  to bring about fulfillment of ברית בן הבתרים

Another opinion is that we use the word שומר to know if someone is a religious Jew who keeps Halacha. In order to find out if someone is religious we ask of they're Shomer Shabbat. What does it mean? That he observes it properly and everything? Nope. It means that he looks forward to Shabbat. We should be doing everything correctly but we should be looking forward and so excited. We don't do it to say we do it. We do it because we love it. 

This is my little rant now...

Shabbat is really the best. Every week we celebrate our eternal anniversary with Shabbat. We should care about it and love it just as much as a husband loves his wife.

 

It's not the Jews that keep Shabbat, it's Shabbat that keeps the Jews.

Yeah. Let that sink in. 

 

Shabbat gives us the ability to have clarity (if you do it right!) It's really such a spiritual day. You can keep Shabbat fully with every Halacha and you may not feel the resonating אור in your soul. You can miss the whole fundamental thing. Hashem blessed the seventh day. When we turn around in shul on Friday night and say בואי כלה, בואי כלה were welcoming in Hashem- not Shabbat. Were supposed to be thinking about ourselves and our relationship with Hashem. We need to prepare for shabbat. We need to let go of the physical and get to the spiritual. Use your ערב שבת the right way. Were dealing with the physical all week so we need Shabbat to let go, be spiritual, and think. If you do Shabbat correctly, you get אור

Thanks for reading through this 

Have a meaningful Shabbat 

Millie