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The mitzvah of Shabbos is essentially resting from work, primarily the 39 melachos forbidden on Shabbos. Certain chassidim are mehader in many things like tasting the Shabbos foods on erev Shabbos and many other hiddurim that were mostly practiced by the Chabad Rebbeim. "It is the minhag Yisroel in many places to beautify the home with flowers in honor of Shabbos and Yom Tov." | The mitzvah of Shabbos is essentially resting from work, primarily the 39 melachos forbidden on Shabbos. Certain chassidim are mehader in many things like tasting the Shabbos foods on erev Shabbos and many other hiddurim that were mostly practiced by the Chabad Rebbeim. "It is the minhag Yisroel in many places to beautify the home with flowers in honor of Shabbos and Yom Tov." | ||
== The Nature of the 39 Melachos == | ====== The Nature of the 39 Melachos ====== | ||
The reason for this mitzvah is rooted in these melachos during the week, which are internally the work of birur in this world. For example: The melachos of plowing and planting etc. are aspects of tikkun and birur to elevate from the growing power in the earth, to grow foods that give strength and vitality for man to live. Their elevation and tikkun occurs when a person makes brachos before and after eating and draws down kedusha, and afterwards when receiving vitality from this food, the food's vitality is included in the person's vitality and strengthens their koach and sechel, and with this koach and sechel they daven and learn and fulfill mitzvos, thereby elevating the food's vitality with them and including it in their avodah. | The reason for this mitzvah is rooted in these melachos during the week, which are internally the work of birur in this world. For example: The melachos of plowing and planting etc. are aspects of tikkun and birur to elevate from the growing power in the earth, to grow foods that give strength and vitality for man to live. Their elevation and tikkun occurs when a person makes brachos before and after eating and draws down kedusha, and afterwards when receiving vitality from this food, the food's vitality is included in the person's vitality and strengthens their koach and sechel, and with this koach and sechel they daven and learn and fulfill mitzvos, thereby elevating the food's vitality with them and including it in their avodah. | ||
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This birur is the refinement of the 288 nitzotzin that fell in shevirat hakeilim in the worlds of Briah-Yetzirah-Asiyah, which need to be elevated from BYA to Atzilus. The world of Atzilus is the world of tikkun that was already rectified, not through human effort. Man's tikkun is in the worlds of BYA, where he was given the ability to rectify and refine. | This birur is the refinement of the 288 nitzotzin that fell in shevirat hakeilim in the worlds of Briah-Yetzirah-Asiyah, which need to be elevated from BYA to Atzilus. The world of Atzilus is the world of tikkun that was already rectified, not through human effort. Man's tikkun is in the worlds of BYA, where he was given the ability to rectify and refine. | ||
== The Prohibition Against Doing Them on Shabbos == | ====== The Prohibition Against Doing Them on Shabbos ====== | ||
For this reason, it is forbidden to do these 39 melachos on Shabbos, since all this work is for the weekdays but on Shabbos there is no birur and tikkun at all, only eating which is from above to below, "a tzaddik eats to satisfy his soul." | For this reason, it is forbidden to do these 39 melachos on Shabbos, since all this work is for the weekdays but on Shabbos there is no birur and tikkun at all, only eating which is from above to below, "a tzaddik eats to satisfy his soul." | ||
The weekday avodah is in the aspect of mayim nukvin and the aspect of rectifying and refining the name BaN, while the tikkun of Shabbos is the refinement of MaH which comes after the tikkun of BaN in the aspect of mayim duchrin. | The weekday avodah is in the aspect of mayim nukvin and the aspect of rectifying and refining the name BaN, while the tikkun of Shabbos is the refinement of MaH which comes after the tikkun of BaN in the aspect of mayim duchrin. | ||