[Avodah] Since when?

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 03:01:00AM -0500, Cantor Wolberg wrote:
: Z.S. wrote:
:> There's no mitzvah of simcha on Shabbos.

: Then how do you explain "Yismach Moshe?"....  "Tikanta  
: Shabbos...sheta'aleinu v'simcha l'artzeinu"?...  "Samcheinu haShem  
: Elokeinu..."   "Yism'chu v'malchus'cha?"....    
: "...kadsheinu .....v'samcheinu bishuas'cha....?"

There is mention of simchah in the tefillos of Shabbos, but not once do
we say that the simchah is simply because of Shabbos.

Rather, we speak of being happy because of the redemption:
sheta'aleinu ... le'arteinu
... be'Eliyahu hanavi
vemalkhusekha
biyshu'asekha

The only exception in your list is Yismach Moshe, but MRAH too is
described as being sameiach with something else "bematenas chelqo",
not simply because it's Shabbos.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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