Entering the holy Shabbat requires both outward action and inner preparation. Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto guides us on the essential steps: ensuring the needs of others are met, purifying ourselves, and embracing thoughts of repentance.
Key points from Rabbi Pinto:
Fulfill your obligations: Help parents, siblings, and relatives lacking sustenance.
Mutual Responsibility: True joy is incomplete if fellow Jews cannot celebrate Shabbat properly.
Actively ensure no one is sad because of you entering Shabbat.
Physical/Spiritual Purity: Immerse in a Mikveh or perform the special Netilat Yadayim (handwashing).
Mental/Spiritual Purity: Enter Shabbat contemplating Teshuva (repentance).
The high spiritual level achieved simply by contemplating repentance, as derived from Talmudic sources.
Discover Rabbi Pinto’s practical guidance for a meaningful and spiritually complete Shabbat preparation.
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Rabbi Pinto: Prepare for Shabbat: Help Others, Purify Yourself & Think Repentance
