The Shulchan Aruch writes, that one should get up early on Friday morning in order to prepare for the Shabbat. The Sefer Chesed Le’alafim writes that the sweat that comes from the exertion that one puts into the preparations of the Shabbat have the ability to erase ones sins similar to the ability
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