True Simcha - Rabbi Ephy Greene

everyone wants to be happy every human being every jew wants to feel happiness in their life what is the torah's secret to happiness the gemara tells us from secret shabbos that there were stiras in miguel escohalus that there were contradictions between various sukken one of those contradictions is on the topic of simcha in paragraphs the passage says says i praise simcha what a great need of what unbelievable experience it is to be with joy on the other hand it tells us in parikh bays i called joking around and called joy frivolous what does simcha do for you it doesn't take you anywhere it doesn't do anything my answer is it's not a contradiction [Music] does something for a person it connects them to the baryon it connects them to a greater fulfillment in life a cynical one-liner an immature humor that kind of simha sohkamatizullah this hog this joking man i said that is frivolous it's meaningless it's worthless what does that simply do it doesn't take you anywhere it doesn't build you it's worthless so the syllable we have to be looking for is this is what it means the kumar sakhas morikatan tells us that when shalom uh put up the first base of mikdash during the hamikdash he had a party for seven days on the eighth day it says that the nation came and they gave brachas to and they went on their way but they went to their to their tents smith the mardus wasn't there they were there partying at the base of mikdash feeling so close to karsh baruch in such a holy way so the fashion ask who says who says that they were smaching with maybe they were because they had a party they had good food they had eating they had good company and probably music and dancing so maybe that's what they were happy about explains of palm you know tara lamela he says no the simcha was a dependent on food drink company anything physical which just dissipates as soon as you're gone to believe if they [Music] that is the symbol that each and every one of us can achieve through our hashem through our talmud torah through our the way that we connect to our karish baruch will bring us more joy in our life which is everlasting a constant consistent simcha which is there throughout because so long as our simple mitzvah we are connected to the infinite power of the kurdish borough of infinite goodness we will constantly feel a certain contentment we will constantly feel certain goodness in our life and true happiness [Music]