If you’re running a kiruv shabbaton, Havdalah is the secret weapon to fire up neshamos
There’s something enchanting about Havdalah. If you’re running a kiruv shabbaton, it’s the secret weapon to fire up neshamos.
At first glance, Havdalah completes what Friday night Kiddush began, with the addition of besamim and eish. I’d like to suggest that these ingredients present two interdependent ideas that give us a message to help us start our week.
Shabbos has taken on new meaning in the age of Galus Yishmael. Physically, Yishmael gives us six days of anxiety. Every time we switch on the news, we’re afraid of learning about a new tragedy or a new threat to our people.
Spiritually, Galus Yishmael drowns us for six days in a world of sheker. Sheker’s most powerful weapon is to trap us into wasting countless hours of our precious lives in the dimyon-fueled world of the Internet.
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