Turn Friday into Erev Shabbos #97 - Shabbos and Humility

a good narrative shabbos it is time to turn friday into arab shabbos i want to thank our generous turn fighting to arab shadows sponsors the series for the year amendment it's also sponsored this week by martin and sarah shendelson in memory of his father maurice anderson moshe bin abram on the occasion of his europe side on the 8th of nisan thank you to the shamelessness of your generosity thank you for the fisherman for your generosity and thank you for being here to turn friday into arab chavez as the siren rings and time is counting down this is no ordinary shabbos this is what we call shabbos hagado this is the great shabbos and whether you're listening to this today on arab shabbas hagado or you're listening later nevertheless the lesson we're going to learn today is equally relevant a beautiful insight i want to share with you from raviaco who was the papara of the rov of papa russia shiva of one of the largest yeshivas in hungary he has a satisfaction called yaakov and he has an haggadah and it's agatha it's called agudas azov like the matsura part of the rehabilitation process and the haggadah of the paparov says the following fantastic insight particularly pertinent as we're counting down to the great shabbos of shabba sagada but also equally relevant to each and every shabbos as we get ready and prepare and he says the following as we know we've spoken about countless times the chabas commemorates creation six days god exerted himself six days god was a creative force creativity he invented created controlled manipulated nature and for six days we emulate for six days we conquer the world we study it we learn it we analyze it we manipulate it we control it and then the seventh day god rested he was at peace with the world in which he created and we too we too though we show a mastery of it we study it and we manipulate and we master it six days a week on that seventh day like hashem we rest we are at peace peace with nature and the natural order is a testimony to hashem's creation we are imitating and emulating god which is the greatest and highest form of flattery so simply by observing shabbos by our suspending that need to manipulate and control by our willingness to concede and to be comfortable with the world around us and to rest to rest just stop we're always ambitious and driven and hungry we want more and more and more and every friday we say dayenu just like hashem looked at his entire world and his one of his names shem dalladyud dalaj he said to his world enough the water wanted to encroach in the land and the land wanted to overthrow the sea and each of the elements wanted to wanted to monopolize the world and hashem said die enough enough be satisfied rest stop expanding and growing and accumulating and amassing just stop die and that's why one of his names is shin dala dude shall marlo modi when we sing dayenu we are proclaiming enough dayenu die it's enough we don't need to expand and grow and add and accumulate die what we have is enough so god hashem six days a week he cut six days the original six days he conquered he controlled he grew he expanded and then he rested we do the same and when we do we are testifying to our faith and our fundamental belief in hashem that we submit and we surrender to him that we accept his position as providence in our life now god created man when on the sixth day and when hashem created us what did he say it was introduced the world na's let us make man who's the us who's weak himo sabi there's one person there's one being the almighty he's everything he's the source of everything to whom is he speaking when he says let us team effort group effort let us make man what are you talking about let us make man so we know rashi tells us there are many interpretations we've shared previously for another time but rashi there says that was modeling for the world humility and modesty that he could have said i'm the omnipotent infinite being of course all that i do is objectively and absolutely true and correct but yet i want to model humility how do you model humility by saying nasa not i i i but we we there are studies that analyze presidential speeches speeches of ceos for rabbis no no different how many times do they say i and instead how many times do they say we the royal we may be when they mean i but it's an expression of humility we wanted to express that humility made this so he said let us borrow something the lowest of all the mountains is not impressive it's not intimidating it's not grand or grandiose has simple and humble and that's the exact reason because in order to truly receive the torah to accurately receive the torah we cannot superimpose our ego our arrogance our understanding of the world on it we have to make ourselves a humble modest blank slate like harsinai to receive the torah by the way that's why it says in pirkei evos it says moshe kibal torah not bissinai but i he didn't receive the torah on harsinai he received the prerequisite to torah from sinai he learned from harsinai how to be humble and modest the lord of again relevant to pesach great vote for pesach but equally true to inspire each and every shabbos that we have that what do we mean in dayenu if he just gave us the shabbos and didn't bring us it would be good enough what do you mean dayenu it would have been good enough to never get to our sinai to never receive the sacred torah to never access the formula and blueprint of creation just having shabbos would have been enough the challenge is geshmaq the potato cook was delicious but it would have been enough even if we never got tarzine what so listen to the paparov says where do we learn modesty and humility from harshinai but even if we never got to our sea knight to learn it we could have learned it from shabbos itself both shabbos and our sinai are a reminder both of them teach us to be humble and modest shabbos in the way that we mentioned testifies to creation because who's the creator of the world and that he said nasa he consulted with the angels and our sinai because it was the smallest mountain so hashem would have just given a shabbos and not brought us we still would have learned the message of humility because shambhas is an exercise in humility shamus is a reminder of humility shabbos elevates us in in humility so however as we turn friday into arab shabbos as we are getting ready for shabbas haggadah remember you're a cotton shabbos is great it's the shabbos haggadah because in the original year this is when the jewish people showed the courage and the bravery to take the deity the animal of the egyptians and tie it to a bedpost before it would be offered as a carbon several days later so shabbas haggle it's not just talking about the length of the rabbis drasha shabba said god let it super long although that too but it's the great shabbos because of the faith that we showed but the truth is each and every shabbos we show great faith we defer and we submit we concede to hashem we stop trying to control the world around us rest don't even turn on a light that's how much we're stopping to control the world don't answer a text or an email don't turn on a light don't get in a car don't cook in the oven we're not trying to control we're done die dieno we sing dayenu on pesach but really we revisit dayenu each and every shabbos and that's what it means even if we didn't have harsinai to learn humility from we would have learned it from shabbos so one of the ways we turn friday into arab shabbos is to practice humility no matter how good a week we had or difficult the week we had don't beat ourselves up too much and don't see ourselves as too high and great but rather be humble walk into shabbos humbly with the people in our home and in our family with our friends in our community practice humility because that is part of the very essence and mission of shabbos wishing you not only a good shabbos but since we're not going to be next friday of pesach to everyone stay happy stay healthy and stay holy [Music] have a wonderful shabbos everybody get ready count down here it comes shout