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is it a mitsub to be happy
where does it say that everyone said yes
very fast
beautiful is it part of the thai meat
swath no
it's not part of the 633 yet we know
that it's a mitzvah to be happy
it says
very nice more than that
oh all the curses
that befall the jewish people which we
just read in a few weeks ago is parashat
thank you very much all the curses we
read about in the parshiot
30 pages back to back of curses are you
gonna do this this is gonna happen
that's gonna happen
because you didn't serve god with
happiness to make up your mind is
happiness a mitzvah
if it's not a mitzvah so what's going on
if it is a mitzvah
how do you become happy more than that
if happiness if if you have to be happy
how can you be happy spiritually and
mentally or whatever you want to phrase
it happy in a world which we live in
today
we all see who goes around us
everybody's losing money
stock market's not doing good you have
neighbors
they can't have children you have other
neighbors that have children but they're
not feeling well
they're sick they're stricken
how can you be happy in their account
where you're going to forget about their
problems and be happy in their account
that's not sensitivity and torah is all
about based on sensitivity
so how can you be happy on their account
more than that how about the person
himself who's suffering
if it's a mitzvah that everybody has to
be happy how is the person himself who's
going through an ordeal be happy
how can he be happy he has a bad
situation at home how can you expect the
guy to be happy
the torah didn't make any uh differences
between
a person that's suffering the person's
not suffering the torah made it clear
being the union served god with
happiness all the curses are going to
fall before upon you so how can you be
happy when you're suffering
how can you be happy hashem if you don't
have children how can you be happy
hashem if your kid
if you have a child but god forbid he's
i don't know he's stricken with some
type of terrible disease that could take
his life away
how can he be happy
so in a nutshell how do we define
happiness in the torah's view
and how does everybody stay be equally
happy
that satisfies the torah's view what is
a jewish concept on happiness
so the answer to this question is a
little bit deep but understanding it
can make a difference of a life of
thinking that you're happy
or that's the guy that's already passed
the frustration
or a person that's always frustrated and
tries to be happy
by uh by doing all crazy type of stuff
to make him happy drinks alcohol
or other types of fix quick fix-its
that make him happy over sleeps over
eats all that type of stuff
it's a person to difference to a person
that's gonna understand this concept
and will be normally happy
steady happiness not one day high when
they low when they're happy and when
they sad when they decide when they say
no
every day constant happiness and the
answer is as follows
the answer to this question is as
follows real happiness
is what you experience
when you're doing what you should be
doing
when a person's on a path when a
person's on a journey
headed to a certain destination he has a
certain destination in mind which he
wants to reach to
when he's on that road towards the
destination
he is experiencing first class happiness
nothing nothing will be able to take
away the joy which he has when he knows
he's headed to a direction which he
wants to be on
nothing
and life in life
we there's something called resistance
yeah if you see a situation
i can't win it i can't get around it
i'm happy i'll stay the way i am i don't
need to grow
i'm doing good now i'm a good jew i
can't face this or a deal and win it
it's not going to happen
that's called resistance when you're
moving along resistance when you're
going
past resistance when you're going ahead
of yourself when you're when you're on
the right path
when you don't go around the problem you
go through the problem
towards your destination you're the
happiest man in the world
i'll tell you more than that you don't
have to have a smile on your face to
show everybody you're happy no
you can have a face that shows
tension any intention a face that
doesn't have to be
with a smile it could be tear stain but
you're working to get somewhere
your face may not show a happy
reflection but your heart inside is
singing
and i'll tell you even more your heart's
singing because of the pain
and it's not easy to get to a certain
level and there's a lot of obstacles in
the way
but those obstacles is what makes you
happy
how does that make sense to you if i
twist your arm
you're going to be happy oh no now it
hurts now i should be happy that's the
rabbi said no it doesn't make sense what
am i saying
i mean the actual pain is happiness how
does that make any sense to you
i'll tell you through my show through
through a metaphor
huh parable metaphor however you want
to understand it let's say a guy has to
build himself a house
there's no workers he couldn't get
nobody everybody's on vacation he
couldn't get nobody and he has to finish
this house
and this day and a month from now
whatever it is in five months from now
the house has to be completed he's
starting from scratch and he knows
how to do the house now what happened to
be it's the summer months
it's hot outside terribly hot outside
he has to start building now this guy
this fellow starts to build his house
and he sees that he's sticking to his
time span he knows his time is working
out good
and he sees that he's going to complete
it on the day it has to be completed
when he looks ahead and he sees he looks
back and sees what he accomplished
how good does this guy feel about
himself
what fills up inside his heart he's the
most
happiest man in the world ah he's
suffering it's hot outside his hands are
all torn apart
blisters it's hot outside
he's sweating he comes home he's
floating are all dirty and torn
yet inside he's the happiest man in the
world why
because he's headed to where he wants to
be he's headed to his destination
he's putting brick by brick he's getting
there he's getting what he wants done
nothing stopping him he's happy it's
hard
yet he fights those obstacles he's
getting somewhere he's building himself
what he has to build in
his time span he's doing it correctly
there's no better joy than that
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