אנא עבדא דקודשא בריך הוא
I am a servant of the Holy One, Blessed is He.
Is found in the quote from the Zohar that we say as we take the Torah out of the Aron Kodesh (בריך שמיה)
Why is being a servant so important, so praisworthy - as to place this declaration in the midst of this teffilla ?
The answer appears to us out of the Parasha.
Eliezer's story is repeated twice. Once when Avraham commands him and he undertakes the journey and once when he recounts it to Lavan. In justification for this seeming redundancy chazal offer the following maxim - "יפה שיחתן של עבדי אבות יותר מתורתן של בנים" - "The conversations of the servants of the fathers are more beautiful than the teachings of the sons". Why should this be the case ? Because when you are a servant you have no arrogance. You are filed with the knowledge that your entire worthiness, your entire 'claim-to-fame' is the service you offer to your master.
May we all merit to internalize this unassumingness - not because of any inherent unworthiness - quite the opposite, we are incredibly worthy ! - but because we should realize what our worthiness is - the job we were destined for, Avodas Hashem.
Hatzlacha !!
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