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Kelly McCaughrain is a YA writer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her first book, Flying Tips for Flightless Birds won the Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Award and NI Book Award. She was the Queens University Belfast Children's Writing Fellow 2019-2021. Her new YA, Little Bang, is about teen pregnancy and was published by Walker Books in January 2024. When she's not writing she's mentoring teen writers with Fighting Words NI or travelling in her ancient VW campervan, Gerda. Our interview begins at 27.00We've got a Substack publication now! On the last day of the month, we share recommendations for two things we reckon you should read/watch/listen to. The beauty of Substack is you can revisit all our old editions and comment on our episode updates to share your thoughts. Come say hi! Caitlin recommends: Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-BrowneChildhood best friends Hetty and Ness leave Melbourne to live abroad in Canada. This is a beautiful exploration of friendship and love, found through a library 'blind date with a book'. It felt like it took a while to read, but I really wanted to savour this writing.Michelle recommends: Everyone On This Train is a Suspect by Benjamin StevensonThis is a sequel, but you don't have to have read Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone to enjoy this witty and clever murder mystery. In this fiction disguised as a memoir, several mystery writers on a literary festival train journey must utilise their 'expertise' to investigate when one of their own is killed. A copy was provided by the publisher for review.In this interview, we chat about:The inequality of pregnancy and motherhood and how Kelly tackled this in a novel for teen readersWhy a dual perspective was the best way to tell this storyHow to represent the nuance of the abortion debate and teen pregnancy through Mel and SidThe importance of exploring friendship dynamics alongside the pregnancy storylineHow growing up in Northern Ireland during The Troubles impacted Kelly's writingThe importance of humour in dealing with tough situationsHow a story competition helped Kelly score an agentThe difference between writing her debut novel and this second novelWhy it's so inspiring to teach creative writing to teensBooks and other things mentioned:I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraBrooklyn by Colm TóibínRebecca Kuang (author)The Afterparty (TV series)Shameless (podcast)Olive by Emma GannonDerry Girls (TV series)Sinéad Morrissey (poet)Follow @kmccaughrain on InstagramLittle Bang is available now. Thank you to Walker Books for sending copies of the books in preparation for the interview. Connect with us on Instagram: @betterwordspod

By recreating an early state of matter called the quark-gluon plasma, scientists hope to understand the conditions that made the universe what it is today.

This week, we speak to Little Bang Brewing co-founders Fil Kemp and Ryan Davidson.  During the chat, we discuss how the business came about, how it grew and how it came to be sold to Duxton Pubs Group, which was first announced back in June.  Our partners Yakima Chief Hops – 100% grower-owned hop supplier with a mission to connect brewers worldwide with the family farms that grow their hops. Brewstaff – Brewstaff partners with some of Australia's favourite craft breweries & distilleries to find the best talent the industry has to offer. Dixon Asia Pacific – Dixon Asia Pacific supplies all the technical flow products needed to brew a good beer.   If you like what we do at Radio Brews News you can help us out by: Sponsoring the show Reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcasting service Emailing us at producer@brewsnews.com.au to share your thoughts

Fitzy and Wizz review 3 mouth watering craft beers from a brewery in the back streets of Stepney SA, whilst recapping the big weekend of sport. Fitzy has an unfortunate start to his Monday, whilst Wizz fires up over an issue that crosses the line!Which beer will go top of the Craftsmen Leaderboard?

This week the team discuss the Little Bang sale, Broo Liquidations and "non alcoholic seltzer". Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast!Little Bang sells to Duxton Pubs GroupBroo confirms liquidations amid restructureFELLR launch non-alcoholic seltzer rangeOur partnersYakima Chief Hops - 100% grower-owned hop supplier with a mission to connect brewers worldwide with the family farms that grow their hops.Rallings Labels and Stickers - Leading provider of high quality Labels, Stickers and Packaging products. Call 1300 852 235.New Zealand Ale Trail - Head to www.nzaletrail.com or @nzaletrail on social media to find the best beer experiences in New Zealand.Bluestone Yeast - Australia's first and only liquid yeast manufacturer. Email info@bluestoneyeast.com.au or call Derek on (03) 8518 3172.Brews News Business Directory - The place to advertise brewing ingredients, equipment, services and and more from Australia and abroad.If you like what we do at Radio Brews News you can help us out by:Sponsoring the showReviewing us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcasting serviceEmailing us at producer@brewsnews.com.au to share your thoughts

This week the team discuss the Little Bang sale, Broo Liquidations and "non alcoholic seltzer". Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Little Bang sells to Duxton Pubs Group Broo confirms liquidations amid restructure FELLR launch non-alcoholic seltzer range Our partners Yakima Chief Hops - 100% grower-owned hop supplier with a mission to connect brewers worldwide with the family farms that grow their hops. Rallings Labels and Stickers - Leading provider of high quality Labels, Stickers and Packaging products. Call 1300 852 235. New Zealand Ale Trail - Head to www.nzaletrail.com or @nzaletrail on social media to find the best beer experiences in New Zealand. Bluestone Yeast - Australia's first and only liquid yeast manufacturer. Email info@bluestoneyeast.com.au or call Derek on (03) 8518 3172. Brews News Business Directory - The place to advertise brewing ingredients, equipment, services and and more from Australia and abroad. If you like what we do at Radio Brews News you can help us out by: Sponsoring the show Reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcasting service Emailing us at producer@brewsnews.com.au to share your thoughts

Welcome to episode 22 of the Here We Crow podcast! We're all back in the studio again!

Fitzy joins us for a very special Pre game warmup and we interview AFLW player Marijana Rajcic before the big game on Saturday!Welcome to episode eleven of the Here We Crow podcast! A fresh look at the team for all South Australians - The Adelaide Crows This week Lauren, Ben, Dan and Sam discuss: 

The team from Little Bang join us for an extensive chat about all things brewing. We hear about how the dream to have a brewery started and what the reality has been like as it's come to fruition. Most importantly we learn just who the chappy without clothes on the Naked Objector can actually is. There are still tasting packs of the beers we discuss available over at our shopify store and we highly recommend getting one delivered to maximise your enjoyment of this episode! https://the-coolroom-podcast.myshopify.com/products/little-bang-tasting-pack Don't forget to follow us on social media so that you can join us live for other online meet the brewers sessions

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Another great tale of a bloke following his brewing dream, and taking the Gypsy Brewing route.This one has a few twists and turns, via Western Australia and London, and then back to South Australia to eventually set up a Tap Room in an old sex shop warehouse. It's a story of achieving great things due to great relationships...Little Bang,. Big Shed, Clare Valley, SA Tafe, neighbours, friends and his wife...so many people have helped to make this dream a reality.Tony started in the shed, and now he's here...apologies for my pathetic introduction on this one! ;)http://www.thesuburbanbrew.com.au/Want to help spread the craft beer gospel?Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTubeRate, Review and Subscribe on Apple Podcasts...click link on phone and scroll to bottomOr Follow/Subscribe on you favourite podcast playerCheck out my website

Introducing our short, sharp podcast: CraftBeerBanter Reviews. We give various craft beers a rating out of 5 by assessing their Overall Impression, their Sessionability, their Accessibility, their Price, and finally their CBB Factor. On this episode we discuss the Little Bang Brewing Co. - Sludgebeast Imperial Stout. We rated the beer 2/5 CBB's. Overall Impression: 1 Sessionability: 0 Accessibility: 0 Price: 0 CBB Factor: 1 Please remember to like, and subscribe if this type of content is appealing to you. Enjoy! We're on Instagram: @craftbeerbanter @vikingthiccdicc @koegles We're on the e-mail: chris@craftbeerbanter.com

This week on the Beer is a Conversation podcast we chat with designer Matt O’Connor. Matt’s design for Little Bang Brewing’s Face Inverter Citrus Super Sour recently won the inaugural GABS Festival can design awards. As can design generates increasing interest and awareness, we were interested in learning more about how Matt came to design for Little Bang and how he approaches the challenges of starting with a shiny silver cylinder and making it something that captures the personality of the brewery and the beer while grabbing the beer drinker’s attention. You can find Matts work on his Website, Instagram and Twitter. Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt are dedicated to providing the finest brewing ingredients to help brewers create the foundations of a truly excellent beer. Your premium brewing partner and proud sponsors of Brews News. and this is Brews News Week. If you like what we do at Radio Brews News you can help us out by: Sponsoring the show Reviewing us on iTunes or your favourite podcasting service Emailing us at producer@brewsnews.com.au to share your thoughts All letter writers will receive a brews news bottle opener and go into the draw to win a mixed six-pack thanks to our good friends at Beer Cartel who sponsor our letter for the week.

This week on the Beer is a Conversation podcast we chat with designer Matt O'Connor. Matt's design for Little Bang Brewing's Face Inverter Citrus Super Sour recently won the inaugural GABS Festival can design awards. As can design generates increasing interest and awareness, we were interested in learning more about how Matt came to design for Little Bang and how he approaches the challenges of starting with a shiny silver cylinder and making it something that captures the personality of the brewery and the beer while grabbing the beer drinker's attention. You can find Matts work on his Website, Instagram and Twitter. Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt are dedicated to providing the finest brewing ingredients to help brewers create the foundations of a truly excellent beer. Your premium brewing partner and proud sponsors of Brews News. and this is Brews News Week. If you like what we do at Radio Brews News you can help us out by: Sponsoring the show Reviewing us on iTunes or your favourite podcasting service Emailing us at producer@brewsnews.com.au to share your thoughts All letter writers will receive a brews news bottle opener and go into the draw to win a mixed six-pack thanks to our good friends at Beer Cartel who sponsor our letter for the week.

Doctorcast es el podcast musical de Dr. Rai en el que semana con semana nos muestra una selección de excelentes canciones para disfrutar a todas horas y cualquier lugar. EL USO DE LAS CANCIONES ES SIN FINES DE LUCRO. Sigue a Dr. Rai en todas sus redes sociales: Facebook: www.facebook.com/DoctorRai Instagram: www.instagram.com/drrai_ Twitter: twitter.com/drrai_ Tracklist: 1. Giacca & Flores - Delight (Original Mix) 2. Claude VonStroke & Green Velvet - Mind Yo Bizness (Original Mix) 3. Riton - Rinse & Repeat (Sammy Porter's Warehouse Bootleg) 4. Little by Little - Bang the Box (UK Garage Mix) 5. S. Jay - Such a fool (Original Mix) 6. Bob Sinclar - Cinderella (She Said Her Name) 7. Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (Greco Remix) 8. Nick Brewer feat. Bibi Bourelly - Talk To Me (Sammy Porter Remix) 9. Fabich - One, Two 10. Dr. Rai - Yo Feelin' (Original Mix) 11. Tazer x Tink - Wet Dollars (Redlight Remix) 12. Rome Fortune & OG Maco - Sex (AC Slater Remix) 13. Oliver Heldens - Ghost ft. RUMORS 14. Chris Lake - Chest 15. Major Lazer - Roll The Bass (Tom Budin Remix)

Strap yourselves in, this is a long one!On the back of a long lunch and some strange meetings that required them to taste test their own products, the boys are fully charged, have a lot of opinions, and want to share them with you!The lads just took me on a fantastic voyage with this one, so much so that I threw away my notes and just ran with it!These guys are knowledgeable, funny, nerdy and share so many insights that you beer nerds will love. Things like:Why Commodore 64's were awesomeHow their advisors led them astray when setting up their business structureWhy all breweries should be steam drivenThe economic realities of craft beerThe challenges of running a small businessHow much stainless steel two mortgages can buyWhy they feel so strongly about creating a brand that doesn't conform to a corporate lookAnd, why it's a great idea to drink before you podcast!They also share the origin story of their hype beer...Sludge Beast!A seriously fun (and loose) session with the guys, I hope you enjoy our chat!

We are now 3 weeks returned from the COVID-19 lock down and crowds are again on the agenda. The timing couldn't be better with the quality of footy improving each week (overall anyway). Round 5 provided arguably the game of the year so far as Parramatta and Penrith battled out West, while the Sharks and Dragons had a passionate local derby of their own. North QLD's woes continue while the Warriors continue to surprise. Injuries are beginning to have an impact as are mid season signings and the continuing fallout from the COVID pandemic with our first game postponement upsetting the preparations for both the Roosters and the Bulldogs. We also analyse the obstruction debate and how the coach's knocked back a rule change in 2018 and are sticking by it. Thank you for all of you around the world who are supporting us by listening in, sharing and interacting with us daily! Adam's Craft Beer of the Week: Brewery and Beer: Little Bang Brewing Co. in collaboration with Collective Arts (Canada) Roadtripper DIPA ABV: 8.1% Style: West Coast Double IPA Country/Location: Stepney, Adelaide, Australia. First of all this is a coooool looking can. Think pretty much Tie Dye on a beer can. Little Bang is a brewery I have been sampling lately and their Roadtripper DIPA is a seriously big IPA, with attitude to spare. With hops for days, a dryness, and a bitterness that really packs a punch. Nothing but beer in here, but it's big, very big– 114 IBUs big. The finish is huge, as the end of any road trip should be, according to the brewers. I'm loving working my way through the Little Bang portfolio and I hope you give them a crack! https://www.littlebang.com.au/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/6again-ahoy-jmewton/message

SHOW #539 If You Want A Little Bang In Your Yin Yang Come Along! Aren't we all totally DONE with this shelter in place stay at home quarantine life crap? Uggh! Let's see what the psychic tarot says about YOUR questions! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bigjujumedia/support

SHOW #539 If You Want A Little Bang In Your Yin Yang Come Along! Aren't we all totally DONE with this shelter in place stay at home quarantine life crap? Uggh! Let's see what the psychic tarot says about YOUR questions!

Ryan Davidson, co-founder of Little Bang Brewing takes us back to the days of home brewing turn hobby and it went really unexpectedly well. So well they moved from space to space until they found themselves in the trenches of a new build putting everything on the line but the unexpected happened and gone were the days of drinking beer and watching Youtube…welcome to adulting.

We're back in Stepney, at the new home of Little Bang Brewing. They have seriously delicious tasting beer, and we have some seriously hilarious stories from the history of the this little suburb. We delivered this show as part of the 2019 SA History Festival, and it includes some interactions with a great live audience as well as plenty of beer consumption. Get on it! 

Part I. Hashem Created the WorldTHE MISHKAN OR THE SHABBOS?ויקהל משה את כל עדת בני ישראל ויאמר אליהם – “And Moshe assembled the entire congregation of the Bnei Yisroel and he said to them…”ParshasVayakhelbegins with Moshe Rabeinu gathering together theAm Yisroelin order to instruct them in all the details of the making of the Mishkan; everything we read inTerumahandTetzavehwas said to Moshe on Har Sinai, and now Moshe is preparing to teach the nation what he received from Hashem. And yet we find something out of the ordinary here: Because we expect now to hear about the Mishkan, about thebigdei kehunah,and thekeilim. After all, that’s what they were gathered for. And yet, what do we find? Moshe Rabeinu veers off course and introduces the Mishkan with a different subject altogether. אלה הדברים אשר צוה השם לעשות אותם – “These are the matters that Hashem commanded you to do, ששת ימים תעשה מלאכה וביום השביעי יהיה לכם קודש שבת שבתון להשם – Six days work may be done, and on the seventh day shall be for you a holiness ofShabbos Shabbosonto Hashem” (Shemos 35:2). Before we hear about the Mishkan, about building the home for the presence of Hashem among us, Moshe Rabeinu instructs us about keeping the Shabbos day holy.Now, that’s a question, because what is Shabbos doing here? We gathered around Moshe Rabeinu to begin our preparations for building the Mishkan, not to hear about Shabbos. So we’ll say thatthis detour of Moshe Rabeinu was intended to demonstrate that despite the vast importance of building a Mishkan where Hashem’s Presence would reside, theAm Yisroelwas required to understand thatit is the Shabbos that is the first and most important “Sanctuary” to be built.Unlike the Sanctuary of the Mishkan, which was to be limited to a single location in the encampment, the Sanctuary of Shabbos was going to be erected in every Jewish home, wherever they would reside. בכל מושבותיכם, said Moshe Rabeinu, “In all your habitations,” (ibid. 35:3) you will celebrate Shabbos, forever. And it was the Sanctuary of Shabbos that would be our greatest opportunity for achievement, even more than the Mishkan itself.Now, there’s no doubt that our ceasing of all work on Shabbos comes to memorialize Hakodosh Boruch Hu’s resting from creation on the Shabbos. However, equally important, is theopportunityfor achievement that theshvisahof Shabbos provides. It’s the cessation from involvement in this world on the Shabbos that opens before us a wide panorama, the one day a week when we can dedicate our minds to Hakodosh Boruch Hu. Becauseamong the many benefits that we gain by stopping to work on Shabbos, the most important one is the opportunity to acquire a Torah mind; “Don’t busy yourself with the work of material creation on the Shabbos,” declares Hashem. “I have something that I want you to build that is more important even than the Mishkan; I want you to build a Torah mind.”HOW TO REALLY KEEP SHABBOSBecause “keeping Shabbos” doesn’t mean merely to refrain from doingmelacha. Shabbos is actual intended to be much more than that; it’s a goldmine of understanding that can transform your mind. But sadly the Shabbos is not utilized as it should be. Even those who are meticulous in the performance of thismitzvah, people who are careful to avoid any semblance of work, are in most cases unaware of the wealth that this day can bestow upon them with even just a little bit of thinking and effort.And therefore, when Shabbos is about to enter, and we turn around and say בואי כלה בואי כלה, “Come in O’ Shabbos,” welcoming this great day ofmachshava, ofda’as Hashem, we must do it with the understanding that Shabbos is going to change us – if only we would be willing to cooperate. Now comes the one time a week dedicated to putting into our thoughts the permanent attitudes which the Shabbos helps us gain. And by doing so, we are going to live all the days between theShabbososwith a different form of mental attitude. And that’s your preparation for happiness in the World to Come, because your portion in the next world will be in accordance with the degree of clarity of Torah attitudes that you achieve in this world.SWEEPING UP THE DIAMOND DUST ON SHABBOSAnd so our subject now will be how to make use of the Shabbos. And you should know, it’s a very big subject, with many facets that have to be studied. But right now we’re going to study one aspect of the creation of the Shabbos mind, and we should be sure to practice it. Even though you won’t be able to practice everything all at once, but if you utilize a minute here and a minute there, then little by little you tap into the goldmine that the Shabbos can be. You know, in a diamond shop the rich diamond merchant gets down on his hands and knees at the end of the day. And with a whiskbroom he brushes together the dust from under the tables. So a visitor once said, “What’s this? You, under the table sweeping up dust?!” So he said, “This dust is diamond dust. And therefore it’s worth my while to sit on my knees and collect dust that comes from diamonds.”And because the lessons of Shabbos are so important, even the dust of these principles is worth everything. Because when a principle is so valuable every grain of it is precious. Every achievement ofda’asis worth much more than diamonds, and even the tiniest particles ofda’asare valuable too. And therefore it’s worth our while, to study just one detail of how to utilize the Shabbos. And a lifetime of utilizing the Shabbos in that way will result in a benefit that will transform your life.THE ANGELS COME TO VISITAnd so we’ll begin withVayichulu. When we stand up inshemonah esreiandinkiddushand say, ויכולו השמים והארץ וכל צבאם – “The heavens and the earth and all their hosts were finished at the end of six days,” to our surprise it’s such an important declaration that thegemara(Shabbos 119b) says: בשעה שאומר ויכולו – “At that time when a person saysVayichulu, שני מלאכי השרת המלווין לו לאדם מניחין ידיהן על ראשו, so two angels come – , and they put their hands on this man’s head. ואומרים לו, and they say to him, וסר עווניך וחטאתך תכופר, “Your iniquity will depart and your sins will be forgiven.”So this coming Friday night make sure to be aware of what’s happening to you. You’re going to sayVayichulu,and then you’re going to be visited by twomalachim.Now you’ll be saying it more than once, and which of the times the angels will come, I don’t know. But absolutely it will happen, so be ready for it.KLAPPING AL CHEITBEFORE KIDDUSHThe angels will put their hands on your head and they’ll say: “Your sins will now depart, and your iniquity will be atoned.” Now, isn’t that a great opportunity?! You thought that you were going to have to wait another half a year for Yom Kippur to come, and meanwhile you can have a Yom Kippur every Friday night! That’s how great that moment ofVayichuluis – it’s like Yom Kippur. Of course it requires at least a thought of repentance. So you think of one incident over the past week, one wrong word you said, or one carelessness inshmiras hamitzvos,and use that opportunity; because it’s at this moment when you sayVayichuluthat the angels lay their hands on your head and tell you that all will be forgiven.Now, to us that seems to be a very queer statement. Because we thought that we were just sayingVayichulu,and now we’re being told that it’s something like a Yom Kippur! So we’ll have to study what it is that makes this occasion of sayingVayichuluso important. Because it doesn’t say that as soon as the sun sets and the Shabbos comes in, that themalachimput their hands on your head. No! It’s when you make that declaration ofVayichulu, or you listen to your husband making the declaration –that’swhen it happens. And that’s a question: What great change has been affected in you by the words ofVayichuluthat makes you deserving ofa specialkaparahwithmalachim?THE MOST SPECTACULAR MIRACLESo we’ll say that when you say the words ויכולו השמים והארץ וכל צבאם, you’re saying that the whole universe was completed at this moment in time, as the Shabbos came in. The first thirty-onepesukimin the Torah describe the most spectacular miracle ever performed by Hashem, the process ofbriyah yeish mei’ayin, creation out of nothing, andVayichuluwas the culmination of that great miracle.Now this is a startling idea that has no equal; here the Torah tells us a statement which is so revolutionary that it has no equal in all the statements and writings since the beginning of time. And never again will another statement be made that has the same impact. And that is that Hashem createdfrom nothing.SOMETHING FROM NOTHINGYou know that you can make skyscrapers out of dust; it’s possible. If you take dust and mix the right chemicals into it, you can amalgamate it until it becomes bricks and building blocks. But when you sayVayichulu, you’re declaring thatthere were no building blocks in the beginning, that the world was created out ofnothing. BeforeBereishis,nothingexisted. There was no Big Bang, and there was no Little Bang. There were no black holes and no explosions of stars. There was nothing to explode. There was zero.Nothing at all existed except for theruachElokim, the spirit of Hashem which pervaded all space – I don’t want to say space because there was no space yet – but Hashem pervaded All. There was only Hashem and nothing else.And then, from absolutely nothing, הוא אמר ויהי – “Hashem said, and it came into being” (Tehillim 33:9). Hashem created everything, He willed space into existence; and then He willed that the space should be filled with heavenly bodies; and that there should be one planet that should have an atmosphere, that should have hydrosphere, that means water; that it should have a lithosphere, soil; and that it should have all living things. He willed that everything should come into existence including Man. And never again will there be a creation of something from nothing. It’s a stunning idea, that something can come from nothing, and it’s something that we are expected to labor all of our lives in order to gain a little bit of its impact in our minds. That’s what Shabbos is, the זכר למעשה בראשית. Now this is a stretch of the imagination beyond what we are actually capable of picturing. But we have to say it week after week until finally it begins to penetrate, thatthe world was made out of nothing but the word of Hashem.THE BIG APPLEI’ll give you amashal. Let’s say you’re going to imagine in your head right now a big apple, a big beautiful apple. And it will be the size of this room. There’s a stem protruding from the top as thick as a cane. And the apple is striped red, with delicate tints of yellow. It has beauty spots all over it like a real apple. And underneath will be dimples; and it will be begging you to sink your teeth into it. Now, as you imagine this apple that I’m describing, you’re creating a picture in your mind. It’s entering into your consciousness and your thoughts are creating a picture of a big beautiful apple in your head.And while you think about this big beautiful apple, to some extent, the apple is really alive in your mind; your imagination is creating real images. Now, when you move onto some other thought and you’ll stop thinking about the apple, so you’ll say nothing remains of that apple. “It was only a dream in my head, my imagination, and it’s gone now.” But actually that’s untrue – it’ll remain forever. That daydream, that imagination that I caused in your head just now was a creation, the creation of a picture in your mind.And that picture is not just imagination. We call it ‘imagination’ – making an image, but actually it’s a fact. Suppose you young fellows, forty years from now, will be walking down the street and you’ll pass a fruit stand on the sidewalk displaying big beautiful red apples. And you’ll say, “I remember when I was a youth I attended a lecture and somebody was talking about an apple like these as big as a house.” And suddenly there springs forth before your mind’s eye the picture of the apple from this evening. Now where was it for forty years? It was lost and you recreated it? No, you’re not recreating it! It was there all the time, but it was filed away somewhere in a back office of your mind, in your memory. Once it entered, once you created that picture, it remainsforever. And that’s why forty years from now, when something will press the button, this picture will leap out of the file, and come before your eyes and there it is – it’s that apple that you created many years before.IMAGINATION IS REAL!What we’re saying now is that our imagination is a reality. Only that it’s a different kind of reality. You can’t touch it. You can’t make it alive, but it’s a creation, you can see it with your mind’s eye. Now, Hakodosh Boruch Hu also imagined things. But His imagination is much more powerful than ours. And He imagined a universe – and since He imagined a universe, here it is!And that’s what Shabbos comes to tell us. That the whole universe with all its diverse forms of matter and energy is basically nothing but a form of the will of the Creator. It’s a bomb! And only because הוא אמר ויהי, only because “He said,” because “He commanded,” something came into existence from nothing. And that’s one of the most important functions of Shabbos, to impress upon ourselves thisyesodha’yesodos, the most fundamental principle of all, that Hashem’s thoughts brought everything into existence. And so when you sayVayichulu, you’re declaring to yourself and to your family that greatest miracle in the history of the world,the creation of everything from nothing.Part II. Hashem isStillCreating the WorldTHE ANCIENT BENCHBut actuallyVayichuluis much more than that. The lesson ofbriyah yeish mei’ayinis much more important than everything we’ve said up until now. Because really that first and most remarkable miraclenever ended.When a carpenter makes a bench, and then he walks away, the bench is still there. The carpenter doesn’t think about the bench anymore. He could die, he could be dead many years already, and the bench is still being used. But that’s not theBereishis baraof Hakodosh Boruch Hu, that’s not the creation of Hashem. No! הוא צוה ויעמוד,The universe continues to existby the word of Hakodosh Boruch Hu. Every second, He’s creating it all over again.Like it says עושה שמים וארץ את הים ואת כל אשר בם – “He made the heavens and the earth; He made the sea and all that is therein.” And then right away it states השומר אמת לעולם – “He keeps His truth forever” (Tehillim 146:6).What’s the connection between these two statements? He made heaven and earth, and He keeps His truth forever? It’s anon sequitur. How does one follow the other?And the answer is that they’re both the same. He made heaven and earth; but not only did He will heaven and earth into existence with the energy of His imagination, butright now He continues to will everything into existence.Every second, He is keeping His word, He’s maintaining His word. השומר אמת – “He keeps His steadfastness.” He doesn’t take it back. So not only did He create the world out of nothing, הוא אמר ויהי, but, הוא צוה ויעמוד, He keeps the world and everything in existence only by His will. And He continues to imagine it right now. And because He’s imagining it now, here it is!PAINFUL IMAGININGSDo you know what that means? That means that we are nothing but imagination. Even if you take a pin and you pierce your skin, and you shout, “Ouch!” it’s all imagination. But it’s Hashem’s imagination. And that kind of imagination hurts. And if you’ll sink your teeth into an apple, it’s also imagination. But the pleasure of that bite, Hashem willed into existence by His superlative imagination.I always tell you that even a big truck driving down the street is only the imagination of Hashem. Only that Hashem’s imagination is much more real than ours, and because He established a law that two things cannot occupy one space at the same time, you’d better be sure not to get in the way of Hashem’s imagination when He’s imagining a truck!THE SCIENTIFIC LAWS OF CONSERVATIONAnd the truth is that today it was made so much easier to acquire such an attitude because if you study the sciences you see that’s it’s almost the same. I’ll explain that. Many years ago everybody thought that all matter was something that was indestructible; there was a law of the Conservation of Matter. And even if you could chop up material until it became so fine that it became atoms, but it still was something substantial, it was still matter, just smaller pieces. And if you could chop up atoms into even smaller pieces, it would be a still finer powder. But you couldn’t destroy matter. It was accepted science that matter was around forever. If it’s matter now, then it had to be matter always. That’s how they always learned “pshat.”Only fairly recently did the world learn that matter can be destroyed and revert to energy; even today people are not yet aware of the enormity of this discovery. It is the consensus today that matter can be transformedone hundred percentinto energy. Matter can explode so thatnothingis left. No powder, no dust, no atoms. Matter can turn into energy one hundred percent if you have the proper apparatus. And even more startling is the idea that energy can be transformed into matter. So now they say that there is a Law of Conservation of Energy-Matter. It’s one or the other; if you destroy matter it will become energy, and energy can be transformed into matter.E = mc2If you want a demonstration of matter being transformed into energy, when you’ll eat breakfast tomorrow, and then you’ll go out to work; so you’re going to work from nine to one, or maybe you’re going to loaf from nine till one. You know it takes a lot of energy to loaf. Because your heart is beating all the time, your metabolism is working; your body is consuming energy even though you’re sitting at a desk twirling a pencil. Where did that energy come from? It came from the food you ate at breakfast. Food is material, it’s matter, and breakfast turns into four or five hours of work. So it’s matter turning into energy!And I’ll give you an example of the reverse, of energy being transformed into matter. Tomorrow morning walk out on the street and look at any tree. Take a look at the sunlight shining down on the leaves. What is sunlight? Try to capture some sunlight in a bottle, and then try to weigh it. The bottle will weigh the same now as it weighed before the sunlight entered. You can’t weigh sunlight – it’s not matter, it has no mass. Sunlight is energy.But when the sunlight hits the leaf – the green leaf that has chlorophyll – so the sunlight begins to manufacture starch. Don’t think that the sunlight changes the materials in the leaf into starch. No, it’s the sunlight itself, the energy of the sunlight, that combines with the materials and it creates starch; it makes food. The sunlight becomes matter. So here we have an open example of energy being transformed into matter.WHERE DO APPLES COME FROM?!It’s a miracle. You know I explained this to you recently. They once planted an apple tree in a tub full of earth, a very large tub. And they weighed the tree and they weighed the earth. And every year the tree produced apples. Year after year the tree was producing apples and they weighed the apples every year and added it up. At the end of ten years they again weighed the tree and the earth, and they discovered that the earth had diminished by only a couple of ounces! The earth was only a couple of ounces in weight lighter than it had been ten years ago. So the question is where did the apples come from? For ten years many pounds of apples had come off this tree, and the tree had drawn its nourishment from the ground. And the answer is that the apples take very little from the earth. This little bit is important but by weight it’s only a tiny fraction of the fruit. The fruit is almost entirely water, airand sunlight. When you’re eating an apple, you’re eating sunlight!But how does sunlight, which is nothing but energy, become apples? It’s a marvel!Energy is ayeish,not anayin. It is something that was created, but for us it’s a goodmashal. Because it’s just as difficult to pictureenergybecoming matter, as it is to picturenothingbecoming energy. Imagine sunlight streaming through the atmosphere, and you see in the sunlight potatoes and apples! You see human beings! Is that what sunlight becomes? And the answer is yes. So if sunlight can become something material, then you begin to fathom the great truth that thedvar Hashembecame energy and also something material.EVERYTHING IS NOTHING!!!And the real secret of thebriyah yeish mei’ayinis that not only are matter and energy interchangeable but thatthey are one and the same thing.Because actually even what we consider matter is mostly energy. Today the scientists know that the atom, the building block of all matter, is mostly empty space. With the electron microscope you can see the atom, and it has been discovered that the nucleus, where the mass of the atom is concentrated, occupies less than one trillionth of the volume of an atom. And what that means is that the building blocks of everything around us actually contain nothing but empty space and energy.The common factor of all matter and energy istheir basic nothingness.The hidden force of all things is the commandYehi, “Let there be!”And it is only Hashem’s word that is the existenceof all the phenomena of this world. And so when you pick up yourbecherfilled with wine to sayVayichulu, you are actually holding thedvar Hashemin your hand – it’s a bundle of energy being sustained only by the word of Hashem, הוא צוה ויעמוד, only because He is giving the command, does that energy take the form of a silver cup full of wine.And the only difference between the wine, the challah, and your children is the form that Hashem commands the energy particles to take. All the varied forms of matter and energy in this world are but different manifestations of the Creator’s will. Everything is the imagination of Hashem. The tangible universe is real only to us, but to Hashem it is all His imagination – it was created by means of His imagination and it continues to exist only because of His imagination. And thus all phenomena is nothing other than the concretized will of Hashem. Matter and energy in all of their forms are merely forms of His will. Now once a person understands that everything he sees is a manifestation of הוא צוה ויעמוד, so his whole life becomes completely transformed.Part III. Let’s Make KiddushOPTOMETRY 101And it’s with this understanding of whatVayichulumeans that we can understand thema’amar chazal(Berachos 43b) that פסיעה גסה נוטלת אחד מחמש מאות ממאור עיניו של אדם – “A hasty step takes away one five hundredth of a man’s eyesight.” And when does it return? להדריה בקדושא דבי שמשי – “It returns when you makekiddushas the sun goes down.” Now, thegemarasays one five hundredth, but it’s not measured with a caliper; it means that it takes away a little bit of a man’s eyesight. If you walkwith anxiety, if you hurry, you take big stepsbecause you’re worried, you’re afraid you’ll be late, so you must know that it’s going to affect your eyesight.You didn’t know that? Eye specialists will tell you that – many times excitement will affect your eyes. It’s a fact; anxiety, hurrying, haste, tension, it affects the eyes. Like Dovid Hamelech said: עששה מכעס עיני – “My eye became worn out from the excitement of anger.” So be careful against anger; it can ruin your eyes. I once visited a man who was blind, and it was a result ofka’as. Yes; emotions like fright and anxiety can affect the function of the eye nerves.Now eyesight is very important; nobody wants to lose the ability to see; and yet people are always taking hasty steps; everyone is busily hurrying through life taking פסיעות גסות. So the hasty steps that you take all week – all week we’re full of anxiety, we’re worried about this and that and everything. So thegemaraasks: מאי תקנתיה – “How do you remedy that?” What can you do about your eyesight that is slowly going lost? And thegemarasays: להדריה בקדושא דבי שמשי – “It returns when you makekiddushas the sun goes down.” You can restore your eyesight atkiddushFriday night. That’s a very interesting statement, that when you stand forkiddushat the Shabbos table, that’s the time to regain your eyesight.THE WEEKDAYS WEAR US DOWNNow let’s understand this as simply as we can. Thegemarais revealing to us that life during the week has an effect on us. It has a physical effect; there’s wear and tear on the body. Little by little there is a wearing down of the body tissue and even the best metabolism does not completely restore all of that depletion.In addition, the weekday hurry, the weekday occupation, dims ourmentaleyesight, our ability to see things clearly. There’s no question about it, that when you’re busy all week with this world – you have to make a living after all –all week long you’re losing sight of the great principles of truth. That’s what involvement withgashmiyus,even if it’s glatt koshergashmiyus, does to you. It’s amechitzahbetween you and the truth, between you and Hakodosh Boruch Hu.And therefore a person begins to have hisspiritualeyesight diminished, it’s dimmed somewhat. You become more materialistic, you think everything depends on you. Making aparnasa, accomplishing this and that – you think thatyou’rethe one doing in this world,you’rethe one creating. And so you run and you do – you take a big step running here, and a hasty step running there. You’re anxious, under pressure and you worry. And all that is bad for your eyes – your physical eyes, as well as your eyes ofda’as –your ability to “see” Who isreallyin control, Whoreallyis themacherin your life.THE RX FOR ALL WORRIESAnd so when you don’t see as clearly as you did before, מאי תקנתיה, what’s the remedy? להדריה בקדושא דבי שמשי – “He can restore his eyesight atkiddushFriday night.” We have to listen to that. It means that when you makekiddush, orkiddushis being made, it’s an opportunity to restore the health of your body and the sharpness of your mental vision. And so now it’s Friday night; you finally made it – you didn’t think you were going to make it. You were so tired and so worried and now you’re dressed in yourbigdei Shabbos,you’re standing with the wine in your hand, and it’s all behind you. You’re standing and declaring that it was all a waste of worries, a waste of anxiety. ויכולו השמים והארץ.“Everything was done by Hashem until now and He’s still in charge. He’s still in charge conducting our affairs.”Shabbos is the great consolation for the one who thinks when he saysVayichulu. Your nerves relax on Shabbos under the calming influence of that great principle that everything is thedvar Hashem. It’s a whole new attitude that is now washing over your mind – Hashem is everything! He’s in charge! And so you can sit back at the Shabbos table and relax now. It was all a waste of worries, a waste of emotions and anxiety. Shabbos is the great consolation of life! Because when we sayVayichulu, Hashem says, “Don’t worry; I’ll take care of everything. You keep on doing what you’re supposed to be doing, and leave the worrying to Me. Everything in the world is only My imagination, so you can leave it up to Me; I can do the worrying for you.” That’s what Shabbos tells us, and that’s the way to achieve the calmness of truebitachonthat restores your dimmed mental eyesight, and makes you aware of the great principles of truth.And if you make use of the Shabbos to think about these concepts, so your entire life becomes a life of confidence in Hakodosh Boruch Hu and you do away with all anxiety. There is no need for anxiety; everything is under control. Hakodosh Boruch Hu is the cause of everything – every atom in the universe is being sustained by His word right now and therefore He is in full control.WHO NEEDS A PLUMBER?And so when sometimes things seem to be going awry, everything seems to be going wrong – here it iserev Shabbosand the toilet is running over and the lady of the house is trying to mop up the floor.The children are running around sliding on the slippery floor and she still has to put the kugel into the oven. She should be on the verge of losing her mind. And now the the husband walks in from work tired and excited, he’s full of worries. “What’s this?” he might say. “Why didn’t you call the plumber?!” It’s an opportunity for a flare up.But no, he doesn’t say that. And his wife is calm too. Why? Because they both learned the lessons ofVayichulufromkiddushlast Friday night. They’ve built the Mishkan of Shabbos in their minds that lasts from Shabbos to Shabbos. They keep quiet, they keep calm, because they know that everything is under control. In the end everything will be alright. Eventually the floor will be dry; Shabbos will be nice and happy eventually.Because Shabbos means that Hashem says: “Children, I’ll take care of everything! The toilet is overflowing? I’ll take care of that too. You do whatever you can, and it will be all good in the end.” And even if you didn’t learn that lesson, you opened your big mouth, and now she hit you in the face with that soiled mop, so what should be your reaction? At leastnowbe aVayichuluJew. Think, “Shabbos is coming; Hashem is in charge.” Don’t get excited! You can swallow down your indignation if you know that Hashem is in control. You can be aShabbosdikehperson always, even on Friday afternoon when the toilet is overflowing.READING TORAS AVIGDOR MAKES YOU A MILLIONAIREVayichulutells us that there is nothing in the universe except for thedvar Hashem.Wherever you look, wherever you see anything, you are being reminded of Hashem, it’s מלא כל הארץ כבודו – “The universe is full of His glory.” There’s nothing in this world except for Hakodosh Boruch Hu, the Creator, He is everywhere and there is nothing but His will, His imagination. If Hakodosh Boruch Hu would take His mind off us, off this universe, everything would disappear into nothing. Not into dust or into atoms. Intonothingat all! And that has to sink into our heads because that is the foundation of everything – not only of Shabbos.What you’re hearing now is the greatest wealth you could ever acquire, because Torah attitudes are the most valuable wealth in the world; it’s diamonds and gems, all types of precious stones. And now you’ll be going home a millionaire. You’re leaving here with the knowledge thatyou are only the word of Hashem. And even those of you who already knew this have to study it again and again because each additional time is another diamond. And once a person begins to think these ideas, he becomes a changed person. His whole way of looking at the world is transformed completely.And because this attitude is a gem, a diamond, for a person’s mind, so even if we have been saying it for years, it’s never enough. And so when you sayVayichuluone more time, you gain a tiny grain of more awareness. By repeating it, it becomes a little more clear to you. And so, even though you might have said it thousands of times, if you say it one more time it becomes more and more firmly embedded in his mind.IGNITING A HYDROGEN BOMB ONSHABBOSAnd the truth is that when a man makes this declaration of ויכולו השמים והארץwith thought,if he thinks about the things we said here, then he has put into his mind not just a bit of important information, not just a particle of diamond dust, but he has actually put a hydrogen bomb into his head. It’s an explosion ofda’asin his head because the results of this idea are incalculable. When a man declares that Hashem created this world from nothing, and that He continues to sustain everything by His word, so in effect he is saying that there is nothing in the world except for Hakodosh Boruch Hu, and he begins to live with Awareness of Hashem wherever he goes, whatever he does, whatever he sees.And now we come back to the “Yom Kippur” that falls out every Shabbos. We asked in the beginning of our talk, what is so important about sayingVayichuluthat it makes you worthy of a mini Yom Kippur, that your sins are being forgiven? And it’s a good question: After all, when a man stands up on Friday night and he makes this declaration, or when you stand around the Shabbos table and you listen to your husband or your father make the declaration, what really are you learning that you didn’t know before? There’s nothing new here! This is a Jew who has been sayingVayichuluevery Friday night for years; what new information has he gained tonight by standing up and saying it once more? What great change has been affected in him that he deserves a specialkaparahtonight withmalachim?THE REAL TESHUVAAnd the answer is that it is the biggest kind ofteshuvathere is! There is no bigger repentance than sayingVayichulu! If you would fast for twenty-five hours, and stand all day in the synagogue in prayer; even if you would take upon yourself not to do any more sins – and you meant it sincerely – it’s still nowhere near the purification that you get from sayingVayichulu.And that’s because the lesson ofVayichuluis a return to theyesodha’yesodos, the foundation upon which all foundations are built, that everything is Hakodosh Boruch Hu. And just sayingVayichuluis so important, because it affects a change in your mind. That declaration, and the impression that it makes on your mind is so great, that you have already changed your entire nature; the entire way you view the world has changed. There’s no such thing as nature anymore;mthere is nothing but thedvar Hashem.Everything is but the various manifestations of Hashem’s will. And that’s such a fundamental impression on the mind, that everything about him is now different, and it becomes for him a Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur!DON’T BE A FRUM COWRecognizing Hashem in this world is the real return to Hashem, and all other things that a Jew can do are only subdivisions of that.Yeish mei’ayinis so important to understand, that if you don’t understand it, then it is a waste of time doingteshuva. Look, I say waste of time – of course, it’s better doteshuva. It’s better to doteshuvafrom your sins and be a frum ignoramus, absolutely. It’s better to be a frum cow than to be a wicked cow! But to remain a cow by living without realteshuva, without returning to the true attitudes of the mind that you must achieve in this world is a tragedy. A person who doesn’t utilize his mind, if he doesn’t think, so he becomes similar to abeheima. And if you don’t want to spend your life being a frum cow, so you’d better get busy utilizing the Shabbos to impress into your mind that Hashem created the world out of nothing and He continues to keep it in existence only with His will. It’s His imagination and He continues to imagine it and that’s why it continues to be.And that’s such an important attitude, that just the thought of it, just the fact thatyou say the words one more time, so you deserve that messengers should come and make a declaration by putting hands on your head and saying: וסר עווניך וחטאתך יכופר. Why are your sins forgiven? Because you have brought the most important of allkarbonos– thekorbanof the mind. You thought about that great principle that the world isyeish mei’ayin, and by doing that you brought your mind as an offering to Hashem.THE #1 REQUIREMENT OF SHABBOSNow, when you hear that you think it’s just an exaggeration, but it’s not so. When a man thinks about this principle even for a little moment, it’s a change of attitude, and that’s the Yom Kippur of a Jew; to recognize what Hakodosh Boruch Hu really is in this world, to understand that His will is causing everything to existyeishmei’ayinat this very moment, that is the greatest form ofteshuva. Only that people don’t understand what is the meaning ofteshuva.Teshuvafor all the sins in the world, as important as it is, is nowhere as important as the fundamentalteshuvaof recognizing Hashem’s place in this world, the fundamental principle that the world was created out of nothing.Now isn’t it a pity that so many people who areshomer Shabbosdon’t ever think about that? It’s the number one requirement of Shabbos, but they go through Shabbos after Shabbos, week after week, and nothing! They keep everything, but they are missing out on the great opportunity that Shabbos provides.And therefore, let’s keep in mind, from now on, every Shabbos, as much as possible, that whatever you see in the world is nothing but the imagination of Hakodosh Boruch Hu concretized into physical form. And every moment, it continues in existence only because He continues to will it to exist. And therefore everything that you see wherever you go, while you walk to shul, while you walk back from shul, everything you see on your Shabbos table, thebecherholding the wine, your children sitting around the table, it’s all only the vapories, so to speak, from His mind. When you’re walking down the street , you’re walking on the energy of Hashem’s imagination. And when you look around, what you’re seeing is Hashem’s imagination. He created it all with His word and that’s why we see things – but actually it’s nothing but Hakodosh Boruch Hu in all the forms of matter that the universe contains.THE PATH TO TRUE AWARENESSAnd that’s why no principle in the Torah is given as much attention as the principle of Creation from Nothing. “In the beginning Hashem created the heavens and the earth,” are the most important words that were ever spoken and that ever will be spoken, and they are therefore placed in the position of greatest importance, at the very beginning of the Torah. And although we celebrate our Exodus from Mitzrayim with great fanfare on Pesach, and the Giving of the Torah is commemorated on Shavuos with remarkable excitement,the Creation of the World yeish mei’ayin, because of its importance, is celebrated not once a year, but every week.And so, when Moshe Rabeinu gathered the nation to instruct them in the building of the Mishkan, he made sure to first declare the importance of Shabbos. Because although the residence of Hashem among His people in a physical tabernacle would certainly ignite the tangible Awareness of Hashem among the nation, that Awarenesscan be even more readily achieved in the Shabbos home of every Jew.And therefore the nation was told that the building of theMishkanwas suspended on the day of Shabbos, and theAmYisroelthereby learned the eternal lesson that even the enthusiasm for building the house of Hashem must yield for the building of the Shabbos home.And on what foundation is the Shabbos home to be constructed? It is the tremendous declaration ofVayichulu; the internalizing of the Creation from nothing, that is the bedrock of the Jew, the foundation for all your thoughts. And it is of such vast importance that its repetition on Friday night causes the occasion to resemble Yom Kippur. Although no new knowledge is gained, the added awareness of Creation by a Creator brings blessings and atonement, because it is theyesod hayesodos. And when that declaration is absorbed by those who hear it, it becomes the paramount foundation in the creation of the Torah mind that prepares you for the World to Come.HAVE A WONDERFUL SHABBOS See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Part I. Hashem Created the WorldTHE MISHKAN OR THE SHABBOS?ויקהל משה את כל עדת בני ישראל ויאמר אליהם – “And Moshe assembled the entire congregation of the Bnei Yisroel and he said to them…” ParshasVayakhel begins with Moshe Rabeinu gathering together theAm Yisroel in order to instruct them in all the details of the making of the Mishkan; everything we read in Terumahand Tetzaveh was said to Moshe on Har Sinai, and now Moshe is preparing to teach the nation what he received from Hashem. And yet we find something out of the ordinary here: Because we expect now to hear about the Mishkan, about the bigdei kehunah, and the keilim. After all, that’s what they were gathered for. And yet, what do we find? Moshe Rabeinu veers off course and introduces the Mishkan with a different subject altogether. אלה הדברים אשר צוה השם לעשות אותם – “These are the matters that Hashem commanded you to do, ששת ימים תעשה מלאכה וביום השביעי יהיה לכם קודש שבת שבתון להשם – Six days work may be done, and on the seventh day shall be for you a holiness of Shabbos Shabbosonto Hashem” (Shemos 35:2). Before we hear about the Mishkan, about building the home for the presence of Hashem among us, Moshe Rabeinu instructs us about keeping the Shabbos day holy.Now, that’s a question, because what is Shabbos doing here? We gathered around Moshe Rabeinu to begin our preparations for building the Mishkan, not to hear about Shabbos. So we’ll say thatthis detour of Moshe Rabeinu was intended to demonstrate that despite the vast importance of building a Mishkan where Hashem’s Presence would reside, the Am Yisroel was required to understand that it is the Shabbos that is the first and most important “Sanctuary” to be built.Unlike the Sanctuary of the Mishkan, which was to be limited to a single location in the encampment, the Sanctuary of Shabbos was going to be erected in every Jewish home, wherever they would reside. בכל מושבותיכם, said Moshe Rabeinu, “In all your habitations,” (ibid. 35:3) you will celebrate Shabbos, forever. And it was the Sanctuary of Shabbos that would be our greatest opportunity for achievement, even more than the Mishkan itself.Now, there’s no doubt that our ceasing of all work on Shabbos comes to memorialize Hakodosh Boruch Hu’s resting from creation on the Shabbos. However, equally important, is the opportunity for achievement that the shvisah of Shabbos provides. It’s the cessation from involvement in this world on the Shabbos that opens before us a wide panorama, the one day a week when we can dedicate our minds to Hakodosh Boruch Hu. Becauseamong the many benefits that we gain by stopping to work on Shabbos, the most important one is the opportunity to acquire a Torah mind; “Don’t busy yourself with the work of material creation on the Shabbos,” declares Hashem. “I have something that I want you to build that is more important even than the Mishkan; I want you to build a Torah mind.”HOW TO REALLY KEEP SHABBOSBecause “keeping Shabbos” doesn’t mean merely to refrain from doing melacha. Shabbos is actual intended to be much more than that; it’s a goldmine of understanding that can transform your mind. But sadly the Shabbos is not utilized as it should be. Even those who are meticulous in the performance of this mitzvah, people who are careful to avoid any semblance of work, are in most cases unaware of the wealth that this day can bestow upon them with even just a little bit of thinking and effort.And therefore, when Shabbos is about to enter, and we turn around and say בואי כלה בואי כלה, “Come in O’ Shabbos,” welcoming this great day of machshava, of da’as Hashem, we must do it with the understanding that Shabbos is going to change us – if only we would be willing to cooperate. Now comes the one time a week dedicated to putting into our thoughts the permanent attitudes which the Shabbos helps us gain. And by doing so, we are going to live all the days between the Shabbosos with a different form of mental attitude. And that’s your preparation for happiness in the World to Come, because your portion in the next world will be in accordance with the degree of clarity of Torah attitudes that you achieve in this world.SWEEPING UP THE DIAMOND DUST ON SHABBOSAnd so our subject now will be how to make use of the Shabbos. And you should know, it’s a very big subject, with many facets that have to be studied. But right now we’re going to study one aspect of the creation of the Shabbos mind, and we should be sure to practice it. Even though you won’t be able to practice everything all at once, but if you utilize a minute here and a minute there, then little by little you tap into the goldmine that the Shabbos can be. You know, in a diamond shop the rich diamond merchant gets down on his hands and knees at the end of the day. And with a whiskbroom he brushes together the dust from under the tables. So a visitor once said, “What’s this? You, under the table sweeping up dust?!” So he said, “This dust is diamond dust. And therefore it’s worth my while to sit on my knees and collect dust that comes from diamonds.”And because the lessons of Shabbos are so important, even the dust of these principles is worth everything. Because when a principle is so valuable every grain of it is precious. Every achievement of da’as is worth much more than diamonds, and even the tiniest particles of da’asare valuable too. And therefore it’s worth our while, to study just one detail of how to utilize the Shabbos. And a lifetime of utilizing the Shabbos in that way will result in a benefit that will transform your life.THE ANGELS COME TO VISITAnd so we’ll begin with Vayichulu. When we stand up in shemonah esrei andin kiddush and say, ויכולו השמים והארץ וכל צבאם – “The heavens and the earth and all their hosts were finished at the end of six days,” to our surprise it’s such an important declaration that the gemara (Shabbos 119b) says: בשעה שאומר ויכולו – “At that time when a person says Vayichulu, שני מלאכי השרת המלווין לו לאדם מניחין ידיהן על ראשו, so two angels come – , and they put their hands on this man’s head. ואומרים לו, and they say to him, וסר עווניך וחטאתך תכופר, “Your iniquity will depart and your sins will be forgiven.”So this coming Friday night make sure to be aware of what’s happening to you. You’re going to say Vayichulu, and then you’re going to be visited by two malachim. Now you’ll be saying it more than once, and which of the times the angels will come, I don’t know. But absolutely it will happen, so be ready for it.KLAPPING AL CHEIT BEFORE KIDDUSHThe angels will put their hands on your head and they’ll say: “Your sins will now depart, and your iniquity will be atoned.” Now, isn’t that a great opportunity?! You thought that you were going to have to wait another half a year for Yom Kippur to come, and meanwhile you can have a Yom Kippur every Friday night! That’s how great that moment of Vayichuluis – it’s like Yom Kippur. Of course it requires at least a thought of repentance. So you think of one incident over the past week, one wrong word you said, or one carelessness in shmiras hamitzvos, and use that opportunity; because it’s at this moment when you say Vayichuluthat the angels lay their hands on your head and tell you that all will be forgiven.Now, to us that seems to be a very queer statement. Because we thought that we were just saying Vayichulu, and now we’re being told that it’s something like a Yom Kippur! So we’ll have to study what it is that makes this occasion of saying Vayichulu so important. Because it doesn’t say that as soon as the sun sets and the Shabbos comes in, that the malachim put their hands on your head. No! It’s when you make that declaration of Vayichulu, or you listen to your husband making the declaration – that’s when it happens. And that’s a question: What great change has been affected in you by the words of Vayichulu that makes you deserving of a special kaparah with malachim?THE MOST SPECTACULAR MIRACLESo we’ll say that when you say the words ויכולו השמים והארץ וכל צבאם, you’re saying that the whole universe was completed at this moment in time, as the Shabbos came in. The first thirty-one pesukim in the Torah describe the most spectacular miracle ever performed by Hashem, the process of briyah yeish mei’ayin, creation out of nothing, and Vayichulu was the culmination of that great miracle.Now this is a startling idea that has no equal; here the Torah tells us a statement which is so revolutionary that it has no equal in all the statements and writings since the beginning of time. And never again will another statement be made that has the same impact. And that is that Hashem created from nothing.SOMETHING FROM NOTHINGYou know that you can make skyscrapers out of dust; it’s possible. If you take dust and mix the right chemicals into it, you can amalgamate it until it becomes bricks and building blocks. But when you say Vayichulu, you’re declaring that there were no building blocks in the beginning, that the world was created out of nothing. Before Bereishis, nothing existed. There was no Big Bang, and there was no Little Bang. There were no black holes and no explosions of stars. There was nothing to explode. There was zero. Nothing at all existed except for the ruach Elokim, the spirit of Hashem which pervaded all space – I don’t want to say space because there was no space yet – but Hashem pervaded All. There was only Hashem and nothing else.And then, from absolutely nothing, הוא אמר ויהי – “Hashem said, and it came into being” (Tehillim 33:9). Hashem created everything, He willed space into existence; and then He willed that the space should be filled with heavenly bodies; and that there should be one planet that should have an atmosphere, that should have hydrosphere, that means water; that it should have a lithosphere, soil; and that it should have all living things. He willed that everything should come into existence including Man. And never again will there be a creation of something from nothing. It’s a stunning idea, that something can come from nothing, and it’s something that we are expected to labor all of our lives in order to gain a little bit of its impact in our minds. That’s what Shabbos is, the זכר למעשה בראשית. Now this is a stretch of the imagination beyond what we are actually capable of picturing. But we have to say it week after week until finally it begins to penetrate, that the world was made out of nothing but the word of Hashem.THE BIG APPLEI’ll give you a mashal. Let’s say you’re going to imagine in your head right now a big apple, a big beautiful apple. And it will be the size of this room. There’s a stem protruding from the top as thick as a cane. And the apple is striped red, with delicate tints of yellow. It has beauty spots all over it like a real apple. And underneath will be dimples; and it will be begging you to sink your teeth into it. Now, as you imagine this apple that I’m describing, you’re creating a picture in your mind. It’s entering into your consciousness and your thoughts are creating a picture of a big beautiful apple in your head.And while you think about this big beautiful apple, to some extent, the apple is really alive in your mind; your imagination is creating real images. Now, when you move onto some other thought and you’ll stop thinking about the apple, so you’ll say nothing remains of that apple. “It was only a dream in my head, my imagination, and it’s gone now.” But actually that’s untrue – it’ll remain forever. That daydream, that imagination that I caused in your head just now was a creation, the creation of a picture in your mind.And that picture is not just imagination. We call it ‘imagination’ – making an image, but actually it’s a fact. Suppose you young fellows, forty years from now, will be walking down the street and you’ll pass a fruit stand on the sidewalk displaying big beautiful red apples. And you’ll say, “I remember when I was a youth I attended a lecture and somebody was talking about an apple like these as big as a house.” And suddenly there springs forth before your mind’s eye the picture of the apple from this evening. Now where was it for forty years? It was lost and you recreated it? No, you’re not recreating it! It was there all the time, but it was filed away somewhere in a back office of your mind, in your memory. Once it entered, once you created that picture, it remains forever. And that’s why forty years from now, when something will press the button, this picture will leap out of the file, and come before your eyes and there it is – it’s that apple that you created many years before.IMAGINATION IS REAL!What we’re saying now is that our imagination is a reality. Only that it’s a different kind of reality. You can’t touch it. You can’t make it alive, but it’s a creation, you can see it with your mind’s eye. Now, Hakodosh Boruch Hu also imagined things. But His imagination is much more powerful than ours. And He imagined a universe – and since He imagined a universe, here it is!And that’s what Shabbos comes to tell us. That the whole universe with all its diverse forms of matter and energy is basically nothing but a form of the will of the Creator. It’s a bomb! And only because הוא אמר ויהי, only because “He said,” because “He commanded,” something came into existence from nothing. And that’s one of the most important functions of Shabbos, to impress upon ourselves this yesodha’yesodos, the most fundamental principle of all, that Hashem’s thoughts brought everything into existence. And so when you say Vayichulu, you’re declaring to yourself and to your family that greatest miracle in the history of the world, the creation of everything from nothing.Part II. Hashem is StillCreating the WorldTHE ANCIENT BENCHBut actually Vayichulu is much more than that. The lesson of briyah yeish mei’ayin is much more important than everything we’ve said up until now. Because really that first and most remarkable miracle never ended.When a carpenter makes a bench, and then he walks away, the bench is still there. The carpenter doesn’t think about the bench anymore. He could die, he could be dead many years already, and the bench is still being used. But that’s not the Bereishis bara of Hakodosh Boruch Hu, that’s not the creation of Hashem. No! הוא צוה ויעמוד, The universe continues to exist by the word of Hakodosh Boruch Hu. Every second, He’s creating it all over again.Like it says עושה שמים וארץ את הים ואת כל אשר בם – “He made the heavens and the earth; He made the sea and all that is therein.” And then right away it states השומר אמת לעולם – “He keeps His truth forever” (Tehillim 146:6). What’s the connection between these two statements? He made heaven and earth, and He keeps His truth forever? It’s a non sequitur. How does one follow the other?And the answer is that they’re both the same. He made heaven and earth; but not only did He will heaven and earth into existence with the energy of His imagination, but right now He continues to will everything into existence. Every second, He is keeping His word, He’s maintaining His word. השומר אמת – “He keeps His steadfastness.” He doesn’t take it back. So not only did He create the world out of nothing, הוא אמר ויהי, but, הוא צוה ויעמוד, He keeps the world and everything in existence only by His will. And He continues to imagine it right now. And because He’s imagining it now, here it is!PAINFUL IMAGININGSDo you know what that means? That means that we are nothing but imagination. Even if you take a pin and you pierce your skin, and you shout, “Ouch!” it’s all imagination. But it’s Hashem’s imagination. And that kind of imagination hurts. And if you’ll sink your teeth into an apple, it’s also imagination. But the pleasure of that bite, Hashem willed into existence by His superlative imagination.I always tell you that even a big truck driving down the street is only the imagination of Hashem. Only that Hashem’s imagination is much more real than ours, and because He established a law that two things cannot occupy one space at the same time, you’d better be sure not to get in the way of Hashem’s imagination when He’s imagining a truck!THE SCIENTIFIC LAWS OF CONSERVATIONAnd the truth is that today it was made so much easier to acquire such an attitude because if you study the sciences you see that’s it’s almost the same. I’ll explain that. Many years ago everybody thought that all matter was something that was indestructible; there was a law of the Conservation of Matter. And even if you could chop up material until it became so fine that it became atoms, but it still was something substantial, it was still matter, just smaller pieces. And if you could chop up atoms into even smaller pieces, it would be a still finer powder. But you couldn’t destroy matter. It was accepted science that matter was around forever. If it’s matter now, then it had to be matter always. That’s how they always learned “pshat.”Only fairly recently did the world learn that matter can be destroyed and revert to energy; even today people are not yet aware of the enormity of this discovery. It is the consensus today that matter can be transformed one hundred percent into energy. Matter can explode so that nothing is left. No powder, no dust, no atoms. Matter can turn into energy one hundred percent if you have the proper apparatus. And even more startling is the idea that energy can be transformed into matter. So now they say that there is a Law of Conservation of Energy-Matter. It’s one or the other; if you destroy matter it will become energy, and energy can be transformed into matter.E = mc2If you want a demonstration of matter being transformed into energy, when you’ll eat breakfast tomorrow, and then you’ll go out to work; so you’re going to work from nine to one, or maybe you’re going to loaf from nine till one. You know it takes a lot of energy to loaf. Because your heart is beating all the time, your metabolism is working; your body is consuming energy even though you’re sitting at a desk twirling a pencil. Where did that energy come from? It came from the food you ate at breakfast. Food is material, it’s matter, and breakfast turns into four or five hours of work. So it’s matter turning into energy!And I’ll give you an example of the reverse, of energy being transformed into matter. Tomorrow morning walk out on the street and look at any tree. Take a look at the sunlight shining down on the leaves. What is sunlight? Try to capture some sunlight in a bottle, and then try to weigh it. The bottle will weigh the same now as it weighed before the sunlight entered. You can’t weigh sunlight – it’s not matter, it has no mass. Sunlight is energy.But when the sunlight hits the leaf – the green leaf that has chlorophyll – so the sunlight begins to manufacture starch. Don’t think that the sunlight changes the materials in the leaf into starch. No, it’s the sunlight itself, the energy of the sunlight, that combines with the materials and it creates starch; it makes food. The sunlight becomes matter. So here we have an open example of energy being transformed into matter.WHERE DO APPLES COME FROM?!It’s a miracle. You know I explained this to you recently. They once planted an apple tree in a tub full of earth, a very large tub. And they weighed the tree and they weighed the earth. And every year the tree produced apples. Year after year the tree was producing apples and they weighed the apples every year and added it up. At the end of ten years they again weighed the tree and the earth, and they discovered that the earth had diminished by only a couple of ounces! The earth was only a couple of ounces in weight lighter than it had been ten years ago. So the question is where did the apples come from? For ten years many pounds of apples had come off this tree, and the tree had drawn its nourishment from the ground. And the answer is that the apples take very little from the earth. This little bit is important but by weight it’s only a tiny fraction of the fruit. The fruit is almost entirely water, air and sunlight. When you’re eating an apple, you’re eating sunlight! But how does sunlight, which is nothing but energy, become apples? It’s a marvel!Energy is a yeish,not an ayin. It is something that was created, but for us it’s a good mashal. Because it’s just as difficult to picture energy becoming matter, as it is to picture nothing becoming energy. Imagine sunlight streaming through the atmosphere, and you see in the sunlight potatoes and apples! You see human beings! Is that what sunlight becomes? And the answer is yes. So if sunlight can become something material, then you begin to fathom the great truth that the dvar Hashem became energy and also something material.EVERYTHING IS NOTHING!!!And the real secret of the briyah yeish mei’ayin is that not only are matter and energy interchangeable but that they are one and the same thing. Because actually even what we consider matter is mostly energy. Today the scientists know that the atom, the building block of all matter, is mostly empty space. With the electron microscope you can see the atom, and it has been discovered that the nucleus, where the mass of the atom is concentrated, occupies less than one trillionth of the volume of an atom. And what that means is that the building blocks of everything around us actually contain nothing but empty space and energy.The common factor of all matter and energy is their basic nothingness. The hidden force of all things is the command Yehi, “Let there be!” And it is only Hashem’s word that is the existenceof all the phenomena of this world. And so when you pick up your becher filled with wine to say Vayichulu, you are actually holding the dvar Hashem in your hand – it’s a bundle of energy being sustained only by the word of Hashem, הוא צוה ויעמוד, only because He is giving the command, does that energy take the form of a silver cup full of wine.And the only difference between the wine, the challah, and your children is the form that Hashem commands the energy particles to take. All the varied forms of matter and energy in this world are but different manifestations of the Creator’s will. Everything is the imagination of Hashem. The tangible universe is real only to us, but to Hashem it is all His imagination – it was created by means of His imagination and it continues to exist only because of His imagination. And thus all phenomena is nothing other than the concretized will of Hashem. Matter and energy in all of their forms are merely forms of His will. Now once a person understands that everything he sees is a manifestation of הוא צוה ויעמוד, so his whole life becomes completely transformed.Part III. Let’s Make KiddushOPTOMETRY 101And it’s with this understanding of what Vayichulu means that we can understand the ma’amar chazal(Berachos 43b) that פסיעה גסה נוטלת אחד מחמש מאות ממאור עיניו של אדם – “A hasty step takes away one five hundredth of a man’s eyesight.” And when does it return? להדריה בקדושא דבי שמשי – “It returns when you make kiddush as the sun goes down.” Now, the gemara says one five hundredth, but it’s not measured with a caliper; it means that it takes away a little bit of a man’s eyesight. If you walk with anxiety, if you hurry, you take big steps because you’re worried, you’re afraid you’ll be late, so you must know that it’s going to affect your eyesight.You didn’t know that? Eye specialists will tell you that – many times excitement will affect your eyes. It’s a fact; anxiety, hurrying, haste, tension, it affects the eyes. Like Dovid Hamelech said: עששה מכעס עיני – “My eye became worn out from the excitement of anger.” So be careful against anger; it can ruin your eyes. I once visited a man who was blind, and it was a result of ka’as. Yes; emotions like fright and anxiety can affect the function of the eye nerves.Now eyesight is very important; nobody wants to lose the ability to see; and yet people are always taking hasty steps; everyone is busily hurrying through life taking פסיעות גסות. So the hasty steps that you take all week – all week we’re full of anxiety, we’re worried about this and that and everything. So the gemara asks: מאי תקנתיה – “How do you remedy that?” What can you do about your eyesight that is slowly going lost? And the gemara says: להדריה בקדושא דבי שמשי – “It returns when you make kiddush as the sun goes down.” You can restore your eyesight at kiddush Friday night. That’s a very interesting statement, that when you stand for kiddush at the Shabbos table, that’s the time to regain your eyesight.THE WEEKDAYS WEAR US DOWNNow let’s understand this as simply as we can. The gemara is revealing to us that life during the week has an effect on us. It has a physical effect; there’s wear and tear on the body. Little by little there is a wearing down of the body tissue and even the best metabolism does not completely restore all of that depletion.In addition, the weekday hurry, the weekday occupation, dims our mental eyesight, our ability to see things clearly. There’s no question about it, that when you’re busy all week with this world – you have to make a living after all – all week long you’re losing sight of the great principles of truth. That’s what involvement with gashmiyus,even if it’s glatt kosher gashmiyus, does to you. It’s a mechitzah between you and the truth, between you and Hakodosh Boruch Hu.And therefore a person begins to have his spiritual eyesight diminished, it’s dimmed somewhat. You become more materialistic, you think everything depends on you. Making a parnasa, accomplishing this and that – you think that you’re the one doing in this world, you’re the one creating. And so you run and you do – you take a big step running here, and a hasty step running there. You’re anxious, under pressure and you worry. And all that is bad for your eyes – your physical eyes, as well as your eyes of da’as – your ability to “see” Who is really in control, Who really is the macher in your life.THE RX FOR ALL WORRIESAnd so when you don’t see as clearly as you did before, מאי תקנתיה, what’s the remedy? להדריה בקדושא דבי שמשי – “He can restore his eyesight at kiddush Friday night.” We have to listen to that. It means that when you make kiddush, or kiddush is being made, it’s an opportunity to restore the health of your body and the sharpness of your mental vision. And so now it’s Friday night; you finally made it – you didn’t think you were going to make it. You were so tired and so worried and now you’re dressed in your bigdei Shabbos, you’re standing with the wine in your hand, and it’s all behind you. You’re standing and declaring that it was all a waste of worries, a waste of anxiety. ויכולו השמים והארץ. “Everything was done by Hashem until now and He’s still in charge. He’s still in charge conducting our affairs.”Shabbos is the great consolation for the one who thinks when he says Vayichulu. Your nerves relax on Shabbos under the calming influence of that great principle that everything is the dvar Hashem. It’s a whole new attitude that is now washing over your mind – Hashem is everything! He’s in charge! And so you can sit back at the Shabbos table and relax now. It was all a waste of worries, a waste of emotions and anxiety. Shabbos is the great consolation of life! Because when we say Vayichulu, Hashem says, “Don’t worry; I’ll take care of everything. You keep on doing what you’re supposed to be doing, and leave the worrying to Me. Everything in the world is only My imagination, so you can leave it up to Me; I can do the worrying for you.” That’s what Shabbos tells us, and that’s the way to achieve the calmness of true bitachon that restores your dimmed mental eyesight, and makes you aware of the great principles of truth.And if you make use of the Shabbos to think about these concepts, so your entire life becomes a life of confidence in Hakodosh Boruch Hu and you do away with all anxiety. There is no need for anxiety; everything is under control. Hakodosh Boruch Hu is the cause of everything – every atom in the universe is being sustained by His word right now and therefore He is in full control. WHO NEEDS A PLUMBER?And so when sometimes things seem to be going awry, everything seems to be going wrong – here it is erev Shabbos and the toilet is running over and the lady of the house is trying to mop up the floor.The children are running around sliding on the slippery floor and she still has to put the kugel into the oven. She should be on the verge of losing her mind. And now the the husband walks in from work tired and excited, he’s full of worries. “What’s this?” he might say. “Why didn’t you call the plumber?!” It’s an opportunity for a flare up.But no, he doesn’t say that. And his wife is calm too. Why? Because they both learned the lessons of Vayichulu from kiddush last Friday night. They’ve built the Mishkan of Shabbos in their minds that lasts from Shabbos to Shabbos. They keep quiet, they keep calm, because they know that everything is under control. In the end everything will be alright. Eventually the floor will be dry; Shabbos will be nice and happy eventually.Because Shabbos means that Hashem says: “Children, I’ll take care of everything! The toilet is overflowing? I’ll take care of that too. You do whatever you can, and it will be all good in the end.” And even if you didn’t learn that lesson, you opened your big mouth, and now she hit you in the face with that soiled mop, so what should be your reaction? At least now be a Vayichulu Jew. Think, “Shabbos is coming; Hashem is in charge.” Don’t get excited! You can swallow down your indignation if you know that Hashem is in control. You can be a Shabbosdikeh person always, even on Friday afternoon when the toilet is overflowing.READING TORAS AVIGDOR MAKES YOU A MILLIONAIREVayichulu tells us that there is nothing in the universe except for the dvar Hashem. Wherever you look, wherever you see anything, you are being reminded of Hashem, it’s מלא כל הארץ כבודו – “The universe is full of His glory.” There’s nothing in this world except for Hakodosh Boruch Hu, the Creator, He is everywhere and there is nothing but His will, His imagination. If Hakodosh Boruch Hu would take His mind off us, off this universe, everything would disappear into nothing. Not into dust or into atoms. Into nothing at all! And that has to sink into our heads because that is the foundation of everything – not only of Shabbos.What you’re hearing now is the greatest wealth you could ever acquire, because Torah attitudes are the most valuable wealth in the world; it’s diamonds and gems, all types of precious stones. And now you’ll be going home a millionaire. You’re leaving here with the knowledge that you are only the word of Hashem. And even those of you who already knew this have to study it again and again because each additional time is another diamond. And once a person begins to think these ideas, he becomes a changed person. His whole way of looking at the world is transformed completely.And because this attitude is a gem, a diamond, for a person’s mind, so even if we have been saying it for years, it’s never enough. And so when you say Vayichulu one more time, you gain a tiny grain of more awareness. By repeating it, it becomes a little more clear to you. And so, even though you might have said it thousands of times, if you say it one more time it becomes more and more firmly embedded in his mind.IGNITING A HYDROGEN BOMB ON SHABBOSAnd the truth is that when a man makes this declaration of ויכולו השמים והארץ with thought, if he thinks about the things we said here, then he has put into his mind not just a bit of important information, not just a particle of diamond dust, but he has actually put a hydrogen bomb into his head. It’s an explosion of da’as in his head because the results of this idea are incalculable. When a man declares that Hashem created this world from nothing, and that He continues to sustain everything by His word, so in effect he is saying that there is nothing in the world except for Hakodosh Boruch Hu, and he begins to live with Awareness of Hashem wherever he goes, whatever he does, whatever he sees.And now we come back to the “Yom Kippur” that falls out every Shabbos. We asked in the beginning of our talk, what is so important about saying Vayichulu that it makes you worthy of a mini Yom Kippur, that your sins are being forgiven? And it’s a good question: After all, when a man stands up on Friday night and he makes this declaration, or when you stand around the Shabbos table and you listen to your husband or your father make the declaration, what really are you learning that you didn’t know before? There’s nothing new here! This is a Jew who has been saying Vayichuluevery Friday night for years; what new information has he gained tonight by standing up and saying it once more? What great change has been affected in him that he deserves a special kaparah tonight with malachim?THE REAL TESHUVAAnd the answer is that it is the biggest kind of teshuva there is! There is no bigger repentance than saying Vayichulu! If you would fast for twenty-five hours, and stand all day in the synagogue in prayer; even if you would take upon yourself not to do any more sins – and you meant it sincerely – it’s still nowhere near the purification that you get from saying Vayichulu.And that’s because the lesson of Vayichulu is a return to the yesod ha’yesodos, the foundation upon which all foundations are built, that everything is Hakodosh Boruch Hu. And just saying Vayichulu is so important, because it affects a change in your mind. That declaration, and the impression that it makes on your mind is so great, that you have already changed your entire nature; the entire way you view the world has changed. There’s no such thing as nature anymore;mthere is nothing but the dvar Hashem. Everything is but the various manifestations of Hashem’s will. And that’s such a fundamental impression on the mind, that everything about him is now different, and it becomes for him a Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur!DON’T BE A FRUM COWRecognizing Hashem in this world is the real return to Hashem, and all other things that a Jew can do are only subdivisions of that. Yeish mei’ayin is so important to understand, that if you don’t understand it, then it is a waste of time doing teshuva. Look, I say waste of time – of course, it’s better do teshuva. It’s better to do teshuva from your sins and be a frum ignoramus, absolutely. It’s better to be a frum cow than to be a wicked cow! But to remain a cow by living without real teshuva, without returning to the true attitudes of the mind that you must achieve in this world is a tragedy. A person who doesn’t utilize his mind, if he doesn’t think, so he becomes similar to a beheima. And if you don’t want to spend your life being a frum cow, so you’d better get busy utilizing the Shabbos to impress into your mind that Hashem created the world out of nothing and He continues to keep it in existence only with His will. It’s His imagination and He continues to imagine it and that’s why it continues to be.And that’s such an important attitude, that just the thought of it, just the fact that you say the words one more time, so you deserve that messengers should come and make a declaration by putting hands on your head and saying: וסר עווניך וחטאתך יכופר. Why are your sins forgiven? Because you have brought the most important of all karbonos – the korban of the mind. You thought about that great principle that the world is yeish mei’ayin, and by doing that you brought your mind as an offering to Hashem.THE #1 REQUIREMENT OF SHABBOSNow, when you hear that you think it’s just an exaggeration, but it’s not so. When a man thinks about this principle even for a little moment, it’s a change of attitude, and that’s the Yom Kippur of a Jew; to recognize what Hakodosh Boruch Hu really is in this world, to understand that His will is causing everything to exist yeish mei’ayin at this very moment, that is the greatest form of teshuva. Only that people don’t understand what is the meaning of teshuva. Teshuva for all the sins in the world, as important as it is, is nowhere as important as the fundamental teshuva of recognizing Hashem’s place in this world, the fundamental principle that the world was created out of nothing.Now isn’t it a pity that so many people who are shomer Shabbos don’t ever think about that? It’s the number one requirement of Shabbos, but they go through Shabbos after Shabbos, week after week, and nothing! They keep everything, but they are missing out on the great opportunity that Shabbos provides.And therefore, let’s keep in mind, from now on, every Shabbos, as much as possible, that whatever you see in the world is nothing but the imagination of Hakodosh Boruch Hu concretized into physical form. And every moment, it continues in existence only because He continues to will it to exist. And therefore everything that you see wherever you go, while you walk to shul, while you walk back from shul, everything you see on your Shabbos table, the becherholding the wine, your children sitting around the table, it’s all only the vapories, so to speak, from His mind. When you’re walking down the street , you’re walking on the energy of Hashem’s imagination. And when you look around, what you’re seeing is Hashem’s imagination. He created it all with His word and that’s why we see things – but actually it’s nothing but Hakodosh Boruch Hu in all the forms of matter that the universe contains.THE PATH TO TRUE AWARENESSAnd that’s why no principle in the Torah is given as much attention as the principle of Creation from Nothing. “In the beginning Hashem created the heavens and the earth,” are the most important words that were ever spoken and that ever will be spoken, and they are therefore placed in the position of greatest importance, at the very beginning of the Torah. And although we celebrate our Exodus from Mitzrayim with great fanfare on Pesach, and the Giving of the Torah is commemorated on Shavuos with remarkable excitement, the Creation of the World yeish mei’ayin, because of its importance, is celebrated not once a year, but every week.And so, when Moshe Rabeinu gathered the nation to instruct them in the building of the Mishkan, he made sure to first declare the importance of Shabbos. Because although the residence of Hashem among His people in a physical tabernacle would certainly ignite the tangible Awareness of Hashem among the nation, that Awareness can be even more readily achieved in the Shabbos home of every Jew. And therefore the nation was told that the building of the Mishkan was suspended on the day of Shabbos, and the Am Yisroelthereby learned the eternal lesson that even the enthusiasm for building the house of Hashem must yield for the building of the Shabbos home.And on what foundation is the Shabbos home to be constructed? It is the tremendous declaration of Vayichulu; the internalizing of the Creation from nothing, that is the bedrock of the Jew, the foundation for all your thoughts. And it is of such vast importance that its repetition on Friday night causes the occasion to resemble Yom Kippur. Although no new knowledge is gained, the added awareness of Creation by a Creator brings blessings and atonement, because it is the yesod hayesodos. And when that declaration is absorbed by those who hear it, it becomes the paramount foundation in the creation of the Torah mind that prepares you for the World to Come.HAVE A WONDERFUL SHABBOS See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For South Australia's History Month 2018, we told the story of Mike 'Randy' Rann's smackdownm, at the Little Bang Brewing Company. A scandalous piece of modern history all about sex, lies and a magazine. Thanks to all who came along, we had an absolute cracker of a time. We'd like to that all the work the History Trust of South Australia and SA's History Festival have done to support us and further community awareness of SA History, and also Little Bang Brewing for just being absolute legends.

For South Australia's History Month 2018, South Australia's Emerging Historians of the Year (lol, wtf?) present the history of Stepney at the Little Bang Brewing Company. From outlaws to wood pirates and Dan parking his car in the wrong spot, the little suburb of Stepney has a rich and hilarious past. We'd like to that all the work the History Trust of South Australia and SA's History Festival have done to support us and further community awareness of SA History, and also Little Bang Brewing for just being absolute legends.    

Adrian heads over to South Australia and has a chat to Ryan and Fil from Little Bang and Jade from the Wheaty Brewing Corps and Wheatsheaf Hotel.

Podcast 005 MazarXSkunk.com focus-oc.com More info about Catfe —>catfe.com Catfe donations! —>http://igg.me/at/catfeLA/x Intro: Detour - GoMu GoMu Little by Little - Bang the Box Hug Your Mother - Marasco Pyrocight - Elementary Beesmunt Soundsytem - Amsterdam808 Landis La Pace - Shotgun Waze & Odessy - Bump & Grind (Special Request VIP Remix) Waze & Odessy - Bump & Grind (Waze & Odessy vs. R. Kelly) (Special Request VIP remix) Cyclo - Traumer SYV - Looking For Love Kevin Over - Jus A James Barnsley - Acid Tambourine (Tamba Dub Mix) Duke Dumont - Won’t Look Back (Shadow Child Remix) Chris Lorenzo & Hannah Wants - You Love Me Locked Groove - Enigma (Scuba’s Warehouse Mix) Kant MK- Ey Yo (KANT vs. MK) Johannes - Another World ZDS - Bleeps Randy Colle, Peter Gelderblom - Nu Nu ( Stay-C) Russel Trent - Playa Sunrise

Hi Here is the playlist of my dj set for the Soonvibes/ HotmixRadio contest of this summer! - Victor Lou, Ilusionize – Bass down low (original mix) - Milk & Sugar vs Simon Harris – Bass (how long can you go) (original mix) - Olsen – What more Can I say (original mix) - Sammy W & Amp, Alex E, Vintage Culture – Nothin (original mix) - Antonio Eudi – The real Nu (L.O.O.P remix) - EDX – Remember House (original mix) - Little by Little – Bang the box (UK garage mix) - Earl Grey, Pju – Call me up (MusiboX re-edit) - Mason – A girl like me (original mix) - Sharam Jey & Amp, Vanilla Ace – Shut'em down (original mix) - Platinum Doug – Do Wut (original mix) - Andruss – New York (original mix) - Max Valetta – F***ing Dance (original mix) Enjoy!!! ;)

01 Sebb Aston - You R Living 02 Fake & Remedy Ft. Leanne Brown - Never Had Love (Carl Hanaghan Remix) 03 Thomas Gandey & Darick Gyorgy - Surround Me 04 Ron Carroll & Superfunk - Marry Me 05 Bob Sinclar Ft. CeCe Rogers - I Want You (Club Mix) 06 Kaskade Ft. deCarl - Ain't Gotta Lie 07 Krystal Klear Ft. Yasmin - One Night Only (Low Steppa Remix) 08 Miguel Migs Ft. Meshell Ndegeocello - What Do You Want (Migs Salted Vocal) 09 Miguel Migs Ft. Martin Luther - Let It Play (Migs Salted Vocal) 10 Richard Earnshaw & James Vargas - Inside & Out (Rob Hayes Vocal Mix) 11 Torren Foot - Ain't Nobody (Acid Jacks Remix) 12 Sonny Fodera - People Forget 13 Little by Little - Bang the Box (UK Garage Mix) 14 Christian Nielsen - Do You Mind

A Blend of Deep, Sexy, Groovy House tracks.Tracklist:1/ Drew Hill - Talk to you (Groove Armada Remix)2/ Laureen Hill - That Thing ( Golden Boy Bootleg)3/ Full Intention feat Penny F. - Everlasting4/ David Keno, ME & her - Walking Boots (Original Mix)5/ Mickey - Sweet Baby (Original Mix)6/ Elderbrook - How many Times (Andhim Remix)7/ Wild Culture - The TIDE (Original Mix)8/ Destiny’s Child - Say my Name ( Dear David & David West Interpretation)9/ Emanuel Satie - Go Dow (Original Mix)10/ Mark Fanciulli Feat Joe Le Groove - Control (Original Mix)11/ Little by Little - Bang the Box ( Original Mix)12/ Shiba San - I can’t remember (Original Mix)13/ Calippo - Need a Friend (Original Mix)14/ Sam Smith - I’m not the only One (Armand Van Helden Remix)15/ Archive - Again ( Maceo Plex Remix)Download here!Website: http://dj-yanic.comInstagram: http://instagram.com/dj_yanicDISCLAIMER:The purpose of this channel is to provide music to the viewers and promote the work of the artists.The channel was created for personal enjoyment and we do not take any credits from the artists work.If the owners or copyright holders do not wish to have their items on display, feel free to contact me and I will remove the video immediately.Thank you.Contact: djyannickl@gmail.com

Track list: 1 Deko-ze, Peter Brown - I'm In Love With U (Original Mix) 2 Luke Boden - Love In Me (Original Mix) 3 Grooveyard - Mary Go Wild (Tom Shark Remix) 4 Mike Mago - The Gift (Mark Knight Remix) 5 Barrientos, Illyus-Need Me (Original Mix) 6 Ron Carroll, Yves Murasca - Everyone (Original Mix) 7 Baytek - Be The One (Original Mix) 8 Peter Gelderblom & Robbie Taylor - We Built This House (Original Mix) 9 Little by Little-Bang the Box 10 Joris Voorn - The Wild (Vinyl Edit) 11 Eddie Amador, Robosonic - House Music (Robosonic Remix) 12 AS I AM - Saving Grace ( Original Mix ) 13 Code3000 - Everybody Get Up (Original Mix) 14 Franky Rizardo-Olympus (Original Mix) 15 Red Carpet - Allright (Kav Verhouzer Resouled Mix)

Tracklist: 1. Cashmere Cat - Wedding Bells 2. I LOVE MAKONNEN - Tuesday ft. Drake 3. I LOVE MAKONNEN - Tuesday (DJ Snake RMX) 4. Beyoncé - Drunk in Love 5. Drake – Trophies 6. A-Trak & Cam'ron – Dipshits ft. Juelz Santana 7. Childish Gamibino – 3005 8. Bobby Shmurda - Hot Nigga 9. Drake - 0 To 100 + (Grandtheft Remix) 10. Buraka Som Sistema – Sente 11. Lorde - Tennis Court (Flume RMX) 12. Trey Songz – Nana 13. Kid Ink - Show Me ft. Chris Brown 14. Jeremih - Don't Tell Em 15. Chris Brown – Loyal ft. Lil' Wayne 16. Tinashe – 2 On 17. SBMG - Oeh Na Na RMX ft. Dio 18. DJ Snake - Turn Down For What ft. Lil Jon 19. T.I. - About the Money ft. Young Thug 20. Jungle - The Heat 21. Ekkah - Last Chance to Dance 22. Dansson & Marlon Hoffstadt - Shake That 23. Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants 24. Traumer – Hoodlum 25. Shadow Child & Doorly - Piano Weapon 26. Gorgon City - Ready For Your Love ft. MNEK 27. Mar - Man x Woman (Manik Skeleton Rework) 28. Grades – Freedom 29. Vic Mensa - Down On My Luck 30. Mike Mago – Outlines ft. Dragonette 31. Henry Krinkle - Stay (Justin Martin RMX) 32. Drake - How Bout Now (Nosleep RMX) 33. Route 94 - My Love (Low Steppa VIP Flex) 34. Chocolate Puma - Step Back 35. Little by Little - Bang the Box (UK Garage Mix) 36. The Flexican & Sef - Mother's Day 37. Martin Garrix – Wizard (Tchami RMX) 38. Oliver Heldens – Gecko 39. Legitimate Scandal - Fu Gee La 40. Scotty Boy & Chris Lorenzo - Coke Diet 41. Tiga – Bugatti 42. Skream - Bang That 43. Butti – One 44. Rae Sremmurd - No Type 45. Ty Dolla $ign - Or Nah ft. The Weeknd 46. Schoolboy Q – Studio 47. Young Thug – Stoner 48. Beyoncé – 7/11 49. Wiz Khalifa - We Dem Boyz 50. O.T. Genasis – CoCo 51. Önder - Dat Doen We Niet Meer ft. Cartiez 52. PARTYNEXTDOOR - Recognize ft. Drake 53. Majid Jordan - A Place Like This 54. ZHU - Faded (Lido RMX)

RHYTHMATIK EPISODE 4 TRACKLIST : 33Hz - DaClub ( Original Mix ) Amine Edge & DANCE - Halfway Crooks *Cuff* Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne - Rather Be - The Magician Remix Robbie Groove & Stefano Amalfi - Dirty *Sound Division* Kant - Feelings Jaymo & Andy George - Tales from the Basement *Moda Black* Light Year - Pumpt (Original Mix) xxxxBASSLINExxxx Andi Rivera - Can't Help Myself *Simma Black* Little by Little - Bang the Box (UK Garage Mix) Dale Howard - Right Now (Original Mix) xxxxRIDDIM OF THE WEEKxxxx Danny Blaze - Blow Ya Speakerz (Calvertron Remix) Prok & Fitch - Dope Drop Josh Butler - Get Up My Digital Enemy - Shamen xxxxRHYTHMATIK SPECIAL GUEST SLOT WITH LOW STEPPAxxxx