R' Shlomo z'l
What’s the difference between going for a walk and moving out? It's very simple
If I go for a walk and someone says to me "you forgot your furniture in your house." So I tell them "I'm not moving out, I'm just going for a walk." But if I am moving out and someone says to me "Hey, you forgot something”, I go back to get it.
When we bring in Shabbos we say "L'chu neranena”, meaning to say, how about going for a walk into Shabbos? And we start walking into Shabbos, but after L'cha Dodi, it’s clear to me. I don't ever want to go back. I don't ever want to sink again in lies and materialism, competition and pettiness.
So during at the end of Lecha Dodi I decide, "Master of the World, I'm moving into Shabbos”
"Oh? You're moving? You better look back maybe you forgot something?"
And here is when I begin to turn around.
You know what happens when I turn around? I realize "Oy! There's so many things I didn't fix yet!"
My past is so heavy, how can I take it into Shabbos?
But here Reb Tzaddok Hakohen says something which he received it from all the great Kabbalists of the world. How long does it take to fix your past? how long does it take to fix anything?"
It might take a hundred lifetimes to really fix your past, but since I'm not permitted to do anything on Shabbos, I just give it over to G-d
So Reb Tzaddok Hakohen, when I'm turning around and bow down, I say "Master of the World, I can't fix my past. Can You please fix my past? Master of the World, I can't fix it, only You can fix it!" Then on my right, I turn again and I say "Master of the World, what's so good about my present? Do I really know how to take care of my present?"
I bow down again I say "Master of the World, can You shine the light of Shabbos into me so that my present should be the way you want it to be?”
Do you know the difference between G-d soap and the soap you buy at the market?
Ordinary soap can only wash you clean from dirt you have already put on you,
but the soap can’t help for the future
When it comes to G-d soap, Shabbosdikke soap, it can clean the present and the future, so that you'll never, ever be dirty again…that you'll never be low again.
So I bow down one more time, and say "Master of the World, surround me with so much of the light of Shabbos that even my future will be so holy.”
