The Simcha Injection - R. Mordechai Becher - TorahAnytime.com

before he was a full-time rebber he was the CFO of a lumber company in dunsing otherwise known as gedansk he had a good mathematical mind and he was employed in the lumber company as a CFO so he's walking along the banks of a river the weisel river near gedansk and he's got some tall medium walking with him and there had been a lot of rain previously and it was very muddy along the side of the river and the river was flowing quite fast and one of the talmidium as their walking slips in the mud slides into the river and oh they're all like no one can no one is like none of them could swim I guess they ignored the khazal says teach us that but okay whatever right none of them could swim right and the guys in the river and he's just like lying there and he's he's allowing himself to be carried Along by the current he's given up and they're all the rappers running alongside they don't know what to do so finally and please excuse my Yiddish but the the river yells at the guy in the river he says losmir Grissom demolition give my regards to Olivia now this is not very helpful right no someone's drowning you don't say regards to to to I don't know Nemo right or say hello to the Herring right in lifeguarding courses and they tell you to throw someone a line this is not what they mean right so but he says give regards to all of your son but after he said this according to the way it's it's it's brought down in column of us there he says something changed in the demeanor in the face of the guy in the river and he started instead of letting himself be carried away by the current he started thrashing around more and he was able to actually make it close enough to the banks of the river they could pull him out and save his life it's unbelievable so the hasidim asked the rebel they say rabbit it worked but what were you thinking and he said what do you mean to possible now we usually translate that as you shall go forth with joy he says I understood it more literally so you can get out of anything yes as I thought to myself I saw the guy in the river was despair yush he'd given up hope pessimism he just thought he says I think I said to myself if I can inject little uh bad word to use nowadays but okay if I can get into his brain a little bit of simcha somewhere in the back of his mind one neuron will say to the other and dude that was funny right and then and that that little bit of simcha can change everything and he can go from years to Tikvah he can go from pessimism to optimism and he can go from Death to life and it's indeed that's exactly what happened