The Key to Happiness! - R’ Meir Simcha Sperling

foreign [Music] do you really want to be happy in life do you want to have an amazing marriage do you want to appreciate your children what's the secret what's the skill to appreciate your achievements to have an awesome life part of the answer lies in the bracha that billum gave khalusa when he was trying to curse us bilam said was focused on how impressive the tense of Claude Israel were and the matter shagoda says that what he was really saying was that if you look at the way cloudy Israel lives you're going to notice that no two doors were facing each other they wanted privacy so they moved their doors away from the neighbor's door no two entrances faced each other and that showed the kadusha of our nation wow what a holy nation this deserves a navua matatio of Solomon schlitter a very simple question why is that so impressive that somebody wants privacy everybody in the world wants privacy you have a door in front of your house you have a Dory with locks you have a door in your bathroom you have a door in your room you have doors everywhere everybody wants privacy stop looking in stop looking here stop looking there though it's privacy it's private amount you can't discount that so why is that so impressive that call you sir wanted privacy why is this a huge broker says take a look at their motivation was the motivation like we think it is that they wanted privacy I don't want anyone looking into my life no their motivation was not that people shouldn't look at me but so I shouldn't look at people I have shades on my house so I don't look out not that you if you want to look into my house and see how my Shabba stable is running so I suddenly learn in my kitchen in my dining room I study no problem but I don't want to look out because I don't want to see what you have because I don't want to have competition in my life smear seniam goes a very very long way Rabbi Sai I don't want to see what the other people have so now I also want that I don't want to see where you went on vacation because now I also want that I don't want to see someone else's wife because that's not my business I don't want to have competition for my family I don't want to have competition for my life live in your own life rather say close your eyes to the world outside you and open your eyes to the world within you look how much you have you want to be happy start focusing on everything that you have start closing your eyes to everything around you this person posted this and this person posted that and this person did this and this person went there and this person bought a Tesla for everyone who came to his son's Bar Mitzvah so so how are we gonna up them it makes no difference to me because I'm not living that life I'm not living outside I am is something that will give us the benefit of enjoying our life of being happy with our spouse of appreciating our children because they don't have competition because I don't have eyes for anybody else I don't create competition for yourself make sure that you look within your own life and you live inside your own life and you have no idea how happy you will become