Parshat Mikeitz: How to Beat Depression - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

[Music] one of the most difficult things in life is to take the wisdom of happiness into the despair of depression depression and Happiness alike two different worlds it's like two people on different islands trying to signal each other using flags but the flags they're using have different code books and different meanings for each flag happiness and depression like visiting time at the State Penitentiary a prisoner and his wife are having a conversation to an inch of scratched reinforced Plexiglas using a telephone with a severed cord seven cows emerge from a river they're beautiful to behold strong and healthy and then seven other cows emerge from the river their gaunt skinny malnourished and these evil looking creatures devour the fat cows and not a bone is left the fat cows are gone and the thin cows are just as thin and miserable looking as they were before in life a person has to use the days of optimism the good days the days that are full of holiness and closeness to God to fix in his heart the light of that holiness so that when the lean gaunt days come upon him he's prepared then he'll understand that the light has not vanished it's only been hidden the light seems to being completely swallowed up by the darkness but in fact it's merely an exile at the beginning of time there Shawn a unique light called the or hardness the hidden light this light was not like any light that you or I have ever seen because with this light you could see from one end of the creation to the other meaning you could see cause and effect why things happen the way they happen things that nowadays we can't see at all it was a spiritual light that revealed the existence of the unseen world spirituality God hid away the or Hagen was the hidden light after the first 36 hours of creation so that evil would not be able to exploit its power there are times however when you can still catch glimpses of its hidden glow the Pasha of maquettes is always read on Chanukah on the first night of Hanukkah we light one candle and the second night light too so after two nights it looks a total of three candies now if you do your sums right you'll find that the total number of candles that we light on can occur is 36 excluding the shamash the candle that we use to light with the 36 lights of Kanaka correspond to those 36 hours during which the orthogonals the hidden light shone depression wants to steal the light it tries to tell us that the good days of God they've been devoured by the bad the thin cows want us to believe that the healthy cows are gone forever and that they rule in their state but those thin cows will only be in business for just as long as God allows them to keep the good years in exile they have no independent power one day very soon that hidden light will blaze once more in this world of darkness and the rule of the gaunt and evil cows will be revealed as no more than the dream [Music] [Applause]