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0:01 this week we have the incredible privilege to be partisan and in this parashah the torah tells us as follows this is in paris chapter 8 verse 19. 0:11 the pasik says foreshadows what is going to occur in the future when he is no longer here and unfortunately one of the recurring things is that when moshavin was no longer here to lead us and to shepherd us we go 0:27 astray the truth is we went straight evil when moshe rabino was leading us even more was alive allah all the more so without the presence of the great prophet without the presence of our great teacher moshe being unfortunately moshe tells 0:41 us we will be led astray so in this past second chapter eight verse 19 the pasik is describing such a scenario that you will forget hashem or if you forget hashem you will unfortunately follow other gods you will worship them 1:02 you will bow down to them who says i promise you it's not going to work you see so many times in life we run after other things because we think they're going to bring us happiness we think they're going to bring 1:13 us fulfillment we think they're going to fill a void and then we find out we're wrong motivating someone to save you the trouble i'm going to save you the trouble you're going to want to run after other gods you're going 1:21 to want to run after other lifestyles you're going to want to run after other ideologies because they're appealing to you they sound wonderful perhaps they're a bit more modern a bit more cutting edge but i promise you who says mostly who 1:34 says it's not going to work cabo tobi dun you just run yourself into the ground and you have nothing to show for it a steam that is echoed over and over and over most shaban who telling us you're going to 1:47 go astray because you think you're going to find something at the other end of this journey that's going to complete you you're going to find that you're wrong you've fractured the relationship with hashem you fractured the relationship with yourself but 2:00 of course there's always a happy ending and the happy ending is whenever you're ready to come home who is always ready to have you but the great side of this says something absolutely amazing the original writes and i want to 2:13 quote you he picks up in the word that the word and it will be always is a word that foreshadows simcha joy happiness but what is that doing in this passage this passage speaks about the jew for seeking god this 2:31 passage speaks about the jew leaving god and yet the introduction is these alien ideas ideologies and lifestyles avoid we are lost we become lost physically we become lost spiritually emotionally and yet this entire subject is introduced with word and the 3:01 original writes something absolutely amazing he says you have to read the passage a little bit differently if you forget the in life if you forget to be if you forget how to be happy and you lose yourself in sadness tishka you 3:32 will forget hashem your god all depends where you place the comma if you forget your you forget your happiness in life you will forget your god because the shrine of the divine presence rests upon us only if we are in 3:55 a state of joy in a state of happiness and the words of derision are are so incredibly important you know people like to say happiness is elusive it all depends how you define happiness you see for some people happiness is 4:10 a state of being which occurs after you have everything you want in life after everything exactly falls into place after everything is exactly as it should be when life has followed your plan when you've made the amount of money you 4:26 want you're married to the person you want you have the kids that you want the career that you want the rook neos you learned enough then i'm happy any time you hinge your happiness on a string of events which have 4:40 to occur materialize in a certain way you'll never be happy because at the end of the day life never goes according to plan hallelujah life often goes up there's a plan that's even better than the one we had in mind 4:52 but sometimes it's better sometimes doesn't feel better and sometimes it's just different religion is teaching us that happiness is a choice a person makes a choice should i be ba what does it mean a choice to but simple what if 5:06 my circumstances are difficult suffer so even in the midst of all difficult circumstances there's always light there's always goodness there's always barack there's always opportunities for growth there's always opportunities for hassan there's always opportunities for connection a person has to 5:22 make a choice to be basim is a choice happiness is a choice it's a disposition you choose and you know as you see this in the world there are some people who have everything yet they're miserable there are some people 5:37 who have nothing yet they're always filled with such joy such happiness so obviously the equation that dictates that tells us if you have everything you're happy is not true plenty of rich successful people who are abysmally chronically unhappy and plenty 5:56 of people with incredible challenges who have unbridled joy in life because happiness is a choice every day you have to make your choice to put a smile on your face everyday you have to make a choice do you want to 6:07 be basim every single day you have to make a choice do you want to see the good or do you want to see the bad do you want to see the light or do you want to see the darkness is 6:15 the glass half full or is it half empty that's the decision we each make in life but understand the ramifications of that decision are not only for your own outlook or for yourself but that directly impact your relationship with hashem 6:32 because if you don't have simcha you can't really feel all that great about god because on any given day there's stuff in my life that's not going well on any given day there are things that i've asked for that i 6:43 feel god has not come through on so again do you look at the things you have although has given you or are you one of those people who just always why why why don't i have this why don't i have 6:54 that i you don't ask why about all the things you do have i don't ask why about all of the brachos be yet the things that i lack those pose major theological crises for me when you choose to live a 7:07 life without simcha it doesn't only impact your own outlook but it impacts your relationship with akhole it impacts your relationship with other people and of course it impacts your relationship with yourself this says the listener is the deeper meaning of 7:22 this passage if you forget the mandate to be to find joy to make a choice to be happy in life you will forget yourself you will forget your blessings and you will ultimately come to forget god baby the courage to 7:44 make the right decisions in life to choose to be happy to choose to be simple to not put our happiness on hold until we get everything we want how we want it when we want it but to choose to see 7:55 the beauty in everyday life did she choose to see the beautiful brachus the beautiful blessing has given us to choose to be happy and if we do so we will solidify our relationship with our fellow human beings solidify our relationship 8:09 with ourselves but most of all solidifying create a beautiful loving relationship with diribano wishing everyone a good and arab shabbos and a beautiful shabbos godish
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