Every Day is Your Birthday - Rabbi Avi Schneider

the other day i came home from davening and i see in my seat in my dining room table a danish and an iced coffee what a day i realized i said what my birthday and my daughter a young daughter says to me abba you know every day is your birthday this is a line that i say often to my mother on mother's day you know or my father on father's day when i don't buy them gifts i say dad i'm not going to buy your gift right now every day is father's day every day is mother's day the truth is i do believe that to be the case we don't keep it out of aim with something that doesn't change based on what day of the calendar is every day is a kebadaba aim day similarly every day is my birthday every day is a day that someone is special someone should be treated with love and care simha the idea of simcha is realizing that i belong you feel with simcha when you understand your place you feel basement when you appreciate the fact that you have a role to play a person whose birthday is always basement because he feels he's the center of the world everyone's revolving around him you're basically when things are about you i was telling my boys the other day that we have uh we have two separate pockets and there's the sarah macadore down bring down that in one pocket you should have the words [Music] that for me the world was created and the other pocket should say anoki aprave for i am but dirt and dust when you're feeling really full of yourself sometimes you want to be reminded so you take anoki off of vapor i'm i'm just uh i'm not not an amazing dig but at the same time we believe in times when you're feeling a little bit down viscerally developed was created for me i believe those two things are actually intertwined together the world could be created for you even if you feel like you're just dust sometimes but you're supposed to be that dust this dust was important for the world right now and therefore if you feel you belong you have a role you play an important part that no one else can play except for you that's where cinco kicks in when you feel like there are plenty of you out there what you're doing doesn't add much to the world so that is where a person will feel a little bit down on himself so we know every morning we wake up in the morning we have life in breath we can see we can hear we can laugh we can cry it means we're special because today's our birthday we should always be filled with simcha reminding ourselves that the world was created for us no matter how great we think we are or how low we may even be no one can play the role that we play that we play that should feel great [Music]