Rosh Chodesh Adar 1: The Many Languages of Simcha - Rabbi Mordechai Burg

as we enter into the period of aadhaar we have an obligation to intensify our simha in these months so it behooves us to take a couple of moments to speak about the eskimos have so many words for snow because we develop language around the things that are valuable to us in our culture and in yiddishka we have so many words for simba because joy happiness is at the core of being a yid khazal who is wealthy one who is happy with what he has i saw a very beautiful vart what does it mean to be deeply connected to your helix that's what simcha means to be happy with something means to be deeply connected to its essence that's where happiness comes from we all have a helic sometimes our heilig is good sometimes our helic is less good but when we can be deeply connected to wherever we are even in those difficult moments so then we could be the symbol for example let's say a person is going through something very difficult times and they're having a tremendous amount of anxiety and now they're having anxiety about their anxiety a person in those times has the opportunity to say it's okay for me to be anxious i can be deeply connected to my anxiety because the anxiety is a message the anxiety lets us know there's something going on inside of us and when we're deeply connected to that part of ourselves we can work with that part we can be samayah with that part and then we will be truly rich because we're deeply connected to the entirety of the human experience we don't have to fight our emotions in order to be happy we don't have to suppress all of the other things that are going on in our lives in order to be happy it's just the opposite we have to grab that we have to appreciate that we have to be sad with that and then even in those hard times we can also be baseball i once heard that the definition of emotional maturity is to be able to hold two complex and conflicting emotions at once we can be having a hard time and we can also be baseball and perhaps that's the lotion of in these times we have to increase our simple what does it mean increase our symptoms we just all of a sudden say i'm happy no it means we can be deeply connected to ourselves we know that other is the month of goula perhaps we can suggest that by becoming more deeply connected to ourselves by becoming more basimho with our that itself brings the redemption we're able to leave our state of difficulty behind because we've embraced that state accepted that state and this brings us to a state of simpho which is maeville de gea