The Difficulties in Simcha - Rabbi Yehuda Turetsky

thank you very much for the opportunity to share some torah with you um the world of simcha is a very complex one on the one hand we certainly value understand the importance of simcha the rambam describes in host lula of the importance of worshiping hashem [Music] one of the prerequisites for success in torah is to experience a life of simcha and the torah in particular even tells us that we can get critiqued for worshiping hashem but doing so without a sense of joy in many ways the idea of simcha can seem almost elusive many bali marshava identify simcha as connoting a certain sense of being complete when i feel like i have something when i feel like i've attained so then i can experience or simply can be associated with the acquisition of additional goods when i get new things so then and i eat them and i enjoy them so then i can feel a certain sense of simcha the guru however in his commentary on mcgill's esther tells us that in fact we have to define the word symbol a little bit better suson says the gra is the word we use and we've attained in something simcha is the joy that we feel in anticipation is the joy that we feel when we are searching out when we are trying to attain something for the simcha doesn't always connote achievement it doesn't always connote perfection or a sense of completeness simcha implies the joy that one has when they are part of a process when they are searching and striving to accomplish more when they are trying to accomplish trying to do whatever they can to experience something new in many ways the idea of simcha and the reason why simcha is a prerequisite for success in talathora the reason why simcha is so important is not because there is an expectation that every person will always be able to feel that they have got everything that they wanted or to have a degree of slainness there can be simcha because we can all feel the charge to search out to try to find the best of our ability that which can move us and that would conspire and can inspire us and it is that search that anticipation that excitement that gives a real sense of simcha they would be the kinds of people to experience simcha the kinds of people that can identify not only the end result of achievement but to find joy along the way on this path to be able to find a degree of simcha in all that we do and all that we search for and all that we anticipate happen thank you so much and have a wonderful day [Music]