Gateway to Tefilla: "Shelo asani aved" - Uncovering the Joy of Not Being a Slave

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay welcome rabbi sai to the kailua matsuyam here in kew garden hills new york we're continuing our series on bioetfila we call it gateway to twila and we're continuing in the book of sasha we did we gave a shirt on now we talk about shiloh sunny aved and this year is sponsored by our good friend robert sala rose in los angeles his brother tsv okay so shalom so the first question is you already said shiloh sunni guy god thank you that i'm not a gentile which by the way we explained from rip schwab this is not a denigrating bracha we're not saying that they don't serve an important function in this world but we're thanking hashem for our opportunity to be commanded in mitzvos god almost so once we're not a gentile why do we have to thank hashem shalom and avid kanani is a gentile so we've already said that we've already said what are we adding by saying a gentile slave a shaft alpi nevertheless in other words i by already said shall i say no um an aved is better than a guy why because an evidence higher than mitzvah nevertheless we are much better become who mesozoid because inevitably is very degraded he has no ichus he has no connection to his ancestors does not have the merit of the forefathers but also so it cannot marry a regular jewish woman and he has other degradation in other words the bush is saying that we thank hashem for not being another canadian who is much better than a guy but nevertheless he's a degraded he's low he doesn't have his house he can't marry into the jewish people and he has other inyane shepherds so koenta lavush aved evan kanani but other reshainam learn rabbi huda barayakar who is the time of the rebbe of rashi and his parish shatfilah when we say slayasani aved the kavona is not an evid kanani because really said shiloh sonnygay how many different nuances of are there should we say this country that country they were gone forever how many different meaning there are yeah that's israel we're meeting with english and we're not in evidence because inevitably he's not in his own domain yeah maybe he could with us and put on phil in but that's not a love and he can he can't learn as as he wishes he can't persuade this hashem as he wishes so we thank hashem not that we're not inevitable we're not inevitably now in the safer oilas tamir was a safer on tv written by the tsadik with small and he writes in his parish that when we say shalom one of the thoughts we should have is god thank you for taking us out of egypt because if we be in egypt now we would be building pyramids and making the sphinx and mummifying cats and mummifying paris breakfast so we would be uh stuck there in egypt so the um part we know that so this is something we don't only think about on pesach but every day of the year when we say shelia santiago we thank hashem for taking us out of egypt and we're taking us out of the land of the asp and the crocodile yeah so the yeast hashemis behold yeah i'm not available tell my milk giving share you need to remember that you yourself were an evident mitzrayim now this is the rubbish and that god saved us from avoid us para and we have to imagine that we ourselves were mashuped to para and this is one of the cabonas we should have when we say the brah show is and in ruvine malam it's safe on twitter he says when this shot was shown to the masjid ponovich he praised it very much okay now we go on to another dimension over here that what do we thank hashem for when we say shalom so we've brought this siddhar a number of times that fila la david of rabbi avram david varman he says this is from the aisha of chach that part of the kavanaugh to have when we say of it he says you know the posix says about israel this that we will be sold as a vote and nobody will want to buy us so on the one hand that's a great khloe we're so pathetic we're so disgusting nobody would even want to buy us that's part of the but one of the deeper meanings here is claudio israel inherently have such heiress and such freedom of spirit and such broadness and such um a sense of belonging only to god that the concept of avdus is not on us in any sense at all because we are only and solely hashem we cannot be abundant to anybody else with that in other words there's a other nations in the world have some degree of a slave mentality you know you could hire them and they have satisfaction and they have uh their to freedom working for other people the jewish dna is such that the concept of avdos is uh is so is so antithetical to our nature we like to be our own boss we don't like to work for other people that that's what means is that like as opposed to other nations that they have a degree of slave mentality the nature of the jew is that we are only of them hashem and again that's you know we addressed that already we don't say any brachos in the uh in the positive we we spoke about why we do that um so this is another dimension of the of the bracha asani of it that the concept of abdus is is not on us in any sense and in this sense by the way we are called banimaca means that we cannot be avoiding to anybody else and then the idea dawned on me and i got very excited that i say you know what i think i thought of a noob shot in the bracha we all know that there's a great macholichus in chas and this is one of my favorite subjects are we avadanta hashem are we banantashem so bihuda says this mancha is when you do the will of god we're bonnie this regardless nevertheless we are always called banim so the i i would like to suggest that we know even though we always possibly like rabbi huda and we never passing like mayor the rajma writes in two chuvas that regarding this whether we're above the bottom we're so number one we could say like this shalom sunny aved you know we're thanking hashem for we're not like the gentiles that maybe are avadim dashem but we passing like every morning we wake up in the morning and we say we bonus shalom and this is the way the safer pitaya day raisa expresses it he quotes the rajma that there's then you would have expected the halacha to be like rabbi so maybe therefore when it comes to this situation we are obligated every morning to wake up and to express our gratitude and praise and glorify and sanctify and show um haida ribanjam after all it's such a great gift that we are born in so we should thank hashem for when do we ever thank hashem that we're abandoned the answer is every morning we say shalom aved or we could say even like rabbi huda reborn thank you for helping me and about biana madrega but at the very least since we're passing like romer the shot is that we're thanking hashem so these are a number of things to think about number one that we're not in abid kanani we're not in avid ivory we're not working in the sphinx and in egypt that the the concept of abdus is antithetical to the jewish nature and we are in the madriga of banila have a great job you've 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