R' Shlomo Carlebach answers an age old question!

arab excuse me i have only one question but really important for me and for most part of russian jewelry the question is such all the jewish history is the constant tragedy constant holocaust constant morning isn't it the reason to be moaner for the jewish society for the russian jews for for all the jews over the world the question is why are you so happy what's the reason to be happy lucky and joyous isn't it be more proper to be a mourner for jewish people yeah i'll tell you something do you know that that the happiest animal in the world is a pig you know why because there's always garbage around you put your nose in garbage and you're happy do you know that from all the species in the world it's only a human being who's really sad sometimes right but i am rather a human being than a pig right i want you know from all the people in the world we jewish people have the most reason to be sad but we are so happy that i'm a jew and have a reason to be sad because i rather am a jew than anything else and let me tell you something if you look back in the last 2000 years so you can tell me so many jews were killed and all those tragedies this is only one part do you know how many pesachs we had how many symbols titus how many poems yeah how many weddings how many prison and you know something else how many thousands of books we came out with the world the whole world does not contain the wisdom which we have in one book which we came out so sure there are a lot of reasons to be said but there are millions millions of reasons to be absolutely ecstatic and and give out you know it's just it is unbelievable what's happening to us jews i mean can you imagine after 2 000 years we go back to the holy land i mean this is not to be believed right for this alone you could dance for 2 million years right and something else i want you to know we jewish people are very much children conscious like when one baby is born i forget all my troubles right i want you when i look at my children i'm in paradise and you know what kept us jewish people going for so long because whenever we look at our children we think everything is worth it to bring them down to the world so it's true when i go to auschwitz some heart broke and i go to maidani i go to baby yar i'm destroyed but nevertheless let's say i wasn't kiev right so i go to baby yar i'm half dead right when i come back i'm dead then the phone rings and my little girl calls me up from america so i forget bobby yeah i forget everything and suddenly think about master of the world how beautiful the world is but in the whole it's impossible to forget everything you don't have to forget everything you know the question is in which department of your heart are you keeping it you don't keep your rubles in your heart you keep your rubles in the bank right and the same thing everything you remember has to be put in a certain bank in your heart so all the tragedies i put in the outside bank and in the inside bank in my heart i only put beautiful things otherwise i can't make it like i have to make it and i want to make