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God has to make me happy
what happens if a person doesn't deserve
to be happy
so says
it's not punishment it's got to be wood
it's the way God runs His World God runs
his world without connecting without
meaning that if you do something to an
act a certain Merit something in heaven
has to give it to you whether or not
you deserve it I gotta tell you a great
story
approximately 18 years ago
I was a ready for a seventh grade I was
more it was 20 years ago
and the kids over there were impossible
in fact when I first got the job the
director of the school said good luck I
thought she just was giving me a bit no
she meant good luck okay and one of the
boys was you know making a lot of
trouble and he was acting out in class
and I was a pretty strict rubby and I
turned him I said you all see a thousand
word assignment uncovered it's a rabbi a
thousand words a thousand words thousand
words I'm gonna count them if it's 98
they have to do a thousand more
says Rabbi please cut it down it's
negotiating with me I said you'll see a
thousand and the whole day is begging me
every time he sees me in the hallway he
begs me rather please thousand's too
much a little excessive don't you think
you can't charge me a thousand words I
said you'll see a thousand anyway
before the end of the day I felt bad for
you'll see a thousand words is a lot
okay in high school I don't think I did
a thousand words total okay so I woke up
to him I said y'all see you know what
make it 500.
that's okay
so
as I'm walking out of the building my
wife calls me and she says honey you
know you have a court date in New Jersey
I said I have a court date in New Jersey
what are you talking about she was yeah
you remember you've been in a U-turn you
know was illegal they stopped you they
gave you a ticket today is a good thing
you've got to run to New Jersey
I said to myself I said but honey don't
worry she said why I said whatever it is
defined do they want to find me I'm only
gonna have to pay half
she goes how do you know I said watch
I get into my car and I drive to New
Jersey and I pull into the uh to the
parking lot and I walk into the
courtroom and right away as you walk
into the courtroom it's very nice they
do this in New Jersey they don't do it
in Brooklyn you have two options fight
your ticket I settle if you want to
settle do you go to the right and there
you have a lawyer over there and he
compromises with you if you want to
fight good luck go and talk to the judge
so sure enough I was hungry I went to
the right okay I already know the
verdict anyway
the guy comes the lawyer and the clerk
and he says listen the ticket is for a
thousand dollars
you did a tremendous crime a U-turn and
stiff area
says if you want to cut it down to 500
that's a deal I said without gonna give
me that I know I didn't deserve it I did
the crime I wonder I did the U-turn I
was even a wise guy with a cap he walked
in I said wow it's a beautiful uh
uniform you have of it can I get one
either way but and
what happened
because I cut it down for my student
says even if you don't deserve it I cut
it down for you I got into my car and I
called my wife and I said honey the fund
was a thousand
but I got it down at the 500. she says
honey how did you know so I told her the
story and she said genius I said thank
you he says no no that was rhetorical
you should have given it all off he had
only half off yeah I'll think of you
know he became Scott for me because we
definitely agree that is not a system of
reward and Punishment
with that I could understand
which means that if I come and I learn
Torah and I'm excited about it and I
caused a sense of happiness I made what
else I'm happy
says I owe you one
you don't deserve it there are many sins
that you transgress many infractions
many violations you might not deserve it
but
is not a system of reward and Punishment
and therefore
happiness happiness is exactly what
you're going to get
