Welcome to Embrace Shabbat. On Pesach, we say in Dayenu: אִלּוּ הֶאֱכִילָנוּ אֶת־הַמָּן וְלֹא נָתַן לָנוּ אֶת־הַשַׁבָּת, דַּיֵּנו ּ, had G-d fed us the mann, but had not given us Shabbat, it would have been enough. What is the connection between mann and Shabbat? Although he lived before the giving of the Torah, Avraham Avinu kept the laws of Pesach, as it says: לושי ועשי עוגות , you should kneed and make matzot. Chazal teach that it was due to this action that the Jewish people merited the mann . The Torah teaches that mann was given in a town called אלוש , from the root word לושי , which means to knead. Avraham Avinu was able to transform the physical food into something spiritual, so that the holy angels could partake in his meal. In the merit of this action, the Jewish people were later able to eat the mann , a completely spiritual food, despite the fact that they were mortal human beings. Because Avraham was able to feed the spiritual angels tangible nourishment, his children were able to eat the spiritual food, which had adapted to physicality so that his descendants would be able to eat. Shabbat is on an even higher place. We take the physical food and transform it into a דבר שבקדושה , turning the gashmiyut into ruchniyut . אִלּוּ הֶאֱכִילָנוּ אֶת־הַמָּן - G-d “gave us the mann” , the ability to ingest ruchniyut into our physical bodies. וְלֹא נָתַן לָנוּ אֶת־הַשַׁבָּת - on an even greater level, He gave us Shabbat, where we can take physical food and turn it into something holy. וְלֹא נָתַן לָנוּ אֶת־הַשַׁבָּת - why is the terminology of G-d giving us Shabbat used? Rabbi Shur quotes from the Sfat Emet: מתנה טובה יש לי בבית גנזי - there is a gift that I have in my treasure house and it is called Shabbat. On Shabbat, the Jewish people merit to go into G-d’s treasure house. G-d doesn’t take out the treasure and bring it down. Rather, He allows the Jewish people to go into His treasure house every Shabbat. That is the gift of Shabbat- He lifts us up to that level. אִלּוּ הֶאֱכִילָנוּ אֶת־הַמָּן וְלֹא נָתַן לָנוּ אֶת־הַשַׁבָּת, דַּיֵּנו ּ- What is the connection between the mann and Shabbat? In order to be allowed into G-d’s special treasure house, a person must first be purified from the physicality of regular food. By eating the mann , the Jewish people were made into more spiritual beings, after which they were able to enter into that special zone called Shabbat. Then, they could take the physical world and uplift it. Every Shabbat, G-d gives us the gift of Shabbat, where we can exist in our mundane world, but on a different level of existence. We can drink and enjoy, while being brought into the special treasure house called Shabbat. How are we able to exist on these two planes? Because of the purification of the mann. By ingesting the spiritual food of angels into our bodies, we gained the ability to seemingly be down in this world, but also lift our existence on Shabbat to a higher level of existence called the בית גנזי , G-d’s treasure house. Shabbat Shalom.