Is It A mitzvah To Be Happy?- Rabbi Netanel Lebowitz

many years ago yeshiva torah had the privilege of being in the holy city of slot for shabbos and the host to hear torah from the psalmist zechariah guessed that if we have an idea mr gedola leo specifically that it's a great mitzvah to always be baseball then what exactly are we supposed to be increasing when it comes to khuda shaddaar and raphael said let's first understand what the word simcha means even though we loosely translate it as happy perhaps it doesn't exactly mean happy but rather if we look at the hill and in perak of dallas towards the end of the pair tells us hashem with hashem the more that i recognize that hashem is in charge of the world the more that i recognize that hashem is orchestrating all events and that he loves me and that everything is intended for my well-being so then that will be an increase in simcha and even though it's misfiga dollar leo even though it's a big myth to know that hashem is always in charge of the world our job during adar is to be even more god-conscious than usual is to go out of our way to try to recognize where hashem's hand plays a role in our lives and ravikanic said that if you look at the passage of shema yesterday so the word shema and echad there are two large letters the ayan of shema and the dalit of the i and and allah together spell out the word aid and during krishna especially during adar we should be giving testimony that hashem is in charge of everything in the world and interestingly enough if you take the four other letters of those two words the shin and the mem of shema and the aleph of mix those together and you get esmach the testimony is that i'm going to live my life with the recognition that hashem is in the world and of course we know that that's why perhaps the month of purim is found in quran purim the time when hashem's name is not openly in the megillah but we know that behind the scenes he's orchestrating everything in the world so aleph dar adar the echadar hashem is alive in the world and he's in control of everything review told an amazing story a few weeks ago in every single during corona there was a boy who was having a bar mitzvah this boy was an orphan he had lost his father a few weeks ago to corona and the mother just wanting herself to have the best permission possible turned to its duck organization to arrange for something to cheer the boy up to give him a great event the seductive organization went to one of the musicians in the country and the musicians said of course i'll go here's my fee and they said no no not fee orphan widow bar mitzvah corona uh do this one favor and and and bibi samaya let the boy have a great bar mitzvah reluctantly the musician agreed but when he got there he put on quite a performance the bar mitzvah boy was thrilled the widow was happy beyond belief and the musician sat down with the boy put his arm around the shoulder and it was an amazing night the musician felt great until a few days later he got a call that he has to go into quarantine because the boy tested positive for corona and as if it couldn't get worse the musician himself came down with corona a few days later wondering why this all is happening to him a number of weeks later this musician gets a call from a large organization in america that they want to fly him to america to perform at a fundraising event for a number of seductive organizations where do we get his name from so they found his name because they read a story of this musician who dedicated his time towards this child however there's only one condition for him to be able to come to america and that is that he had to have already passed corona they weren't allowed to bring in somebody who had not yet had corona and not yet had antibodies so the only reason why he got this gig that paid so much money more than the bar mitzvah of the orphan and more than he would have made in those two weeks in quarantine the only reason why he got that gig was because of the time that he get dedicated in order to make an orphan feel good at his bar mitzvah hashem has ways of orchestrating and working out everything that we need to happen so that we're provided with all our needs that's the time of aadhar and during this month we should be my bim increase our god consciousness open up our eyes to realize the truth of what's happening in the world and about how much he loves us and is always guiding our lives and events that surround us for our best have a wonderful outdoor and a great [Music] playroom