Welcome to daily bitachon , an important thought about Shabbat as we've been doing lately on our Friday class. We mentioned two weeks ago that Shabbat has many areas of parallels to the Bet HaMikdash . We have the candles, we have the menorah , we have the loaves of bread, we have the shulchan . We have the zimirot , we have the liviyim singing, we have our clothing of Shabbat , we have bigdei kehuna . And that is because Shabbat is a sanctuary of time. Shabbat is the mikdash of time. That's why in more than one place in our prayers we mention Yerushalayim awakening when we talk about Shabbat , whether it's in Lecha Dodi , whether it's in our Arvit prayers. So in a sense, on Shabbat we enter the Bet HaMikdash . And this Bet HaMikdash is actually holier than the original Bet HaMikdash in a sense, because as we know, we were not allowed to build a Bet HaMikdash on Shabbat . Because Shabbat is greater than the Bet HaMikdash . The 39 activities that we don't do on Shabbat were the same 39 activities that they used for building the Mishkan . And that means that we're building our own Mishkan every week by refraining from those 39 melachot , so we are building a Mishkan . What's the relevance of that? It's a beautiful thought brought down on the Midrash of Parashat Toldot . When Yitzchak greets Yaakov thinking he's Esav, it says וירח את ריח בגדיו. He smelled the smell of his clothing. The word beged shares the same root as bagadnu , we were traitors as in Ashamnu bagadnu that we say in our Vidui confession. Parenthetically, the same word beged is boged , traitor, because the only reason why we needed clothing, begadim , was because the sin of Adam HaRishon . So when we think of the word beged , beged connects to boged . So now, Yitzchak smells the smell of his clothing, and that the Midrash says, don't read it as begadav but bogdav . He smelled the smell of his sinners, his traitors. And it refers to two instances in history. I will share one of them with you called the story of Yosef Meshita. He was a Jew, and he was, we'll call him, an evil Jew. He was there with the enemies, the Romans, as they entered the Bet HaMikdash . And they were afraid to enter the actual area of the holy, and they wanted a Jew to walk in because they knew someone that walks into the holy area without permission might die. So let's see. And they told the Jew, you know what? As a reward for going in there, you could take whatever you want, it's yours. So here we have this man that is collaborating with the enemy. He walks in, he takes out the menorah . And they tell him, no, this menorah , that's for a king. This is not for you. Take something else. He says, I made my creator angry once, I will not do it a second time. They say you go in. No. Go in and we will give you X and Y and Z. No. And finally, they tortured him to death and a heavenly echo went out that he was destined to Olam Haba . So he went from a wicked man to a martyr. And that's what Yitzchak Avinu smelled, that even the most distant Jew still can turn around in a moment. And the Ponevezher Rav asks, how did that happen? What what enabled him to make that shift? And he answers, being exposed to kedusha . The Jewish heart has a flame inside of it. When it's exposed to kedusha , that small little spark becomes inflamed. And that's what happened to Yosef Meshita when he entered the holy Bet HaMikdash . And the same thing is true about Shabbat . Every Shabbat , we're entering a holy place. We're entering the sanctuary of time. And if we keep Shabbat properly, we too can have our souls ignited. And we too can have an enlightening and inspiring experience. Many years ago, over 20 years ago, I went on a trip to Israel and we visited a home called a safe home for Jewish girls that had married Arabs and escaped from their Arab husbands. And Rabbi Sorotzkin told us the following story. There was a young girl that was there that was married, it's actually a a daughter of a woman that was married to an Arab. And he told a fascinating story. This woman, he showed us the Birkat Hamazon for her wedding, ended up being rehabilitated and married a baal teshuva . What was her story? Her father was a terrorist. He had married a Jewish woman and eventually committed a crime. He was killed in the suicide bombing, and his wife and daughter left the country and went to Lebanon. The girl had no idea that she was Jewish. She was raised as an Arab by her seemingly Arab mother. And she is working as an interpreter and gets a job to interpret in Israel for some Arab delegation. And before she goes off to Israel, her mother tells her, by the way, just want to let you know, FYI, I'm Jewish and you're Jewish. Okay. She files that information and she goes on her way to do her job. She's walking in the old city, in the Arab area, and she's right at the point where you could make a right turn and turn to the Kotel or go straight as she planned. And she had some urge that pulled her and she decided to go to the Kotel and she prayed there. And something got sparked inside of her, and she decided to research Judaism and eventually came back to her roots. At her wedding, she asked the rabbi to bless her with, I don't remember what the number is, let's say eight children. And when asked why, she said that my Arab father killed that many Jews in his bombing and I want to replace them. Fascinating. What ignited this girl's soul? And the answer is, she went to the Kotel . She went to a place of holiness, it inspired her. And we too can go to the Kotel every Shabbat and be inspired.