Every Yid Matters - Rabbi Daniel Glanz

says there's a mitzvah for a person to constantly be basimha constantly be happy the arizaw is quoted the name of the arizal in the beginning of shaira the gates of intent that refrain vital the results mean talmud writes that if a person when he davens other than the times where he's asking hashem for forgiveness of his sins is never allowed to be said he said a person when he dives is to constantly work on a sim quest to constantly work on being happy and if a person is sad and disappointed not not happiness hashem specifically in the time of tefillah then to a certain extent not to say hashem never really rejects our avodah never really fully rejects when everyone when whenever we do something but to a certain extent it's lacking a person always has to be basim khan is hashem is to be happy and is about the questions is that realistic can a person always be happy can we always be happy we have a range of emotions how could a person always be happy but the truth of the matter is we know that in sri nash shrine only rests in a place of happiness when a person has to feel good about his avon's hashem we approach hashem we have to see what an unbelievable opportunity it is to a certain extent we have to look at it as if a person had an opportunity to go on a shopping spree and uh yeah there's a lot of work there's a lot of planning that has to go into it there's a tremendous rush that a person feels a challenge where does he go how fast can he go he's strategizing and then it's a stressful thing you're running through with your with your cart and you realize you have a certain amount of time and you're trying to get as much as you possibly can from the shelves it's a very stressful experience but if a person on the other hand has a perspective and he realizes what an opportunity this is what an opportunity i have to gain as much as i can gain from this experience if a person keeps in his mind i what it is that he's really engaged in he's able to go deeper than the actual low to the actual activity that he's doing in realizing the purpose of what he's doing for and what it's accomplishing then a person could be basimaha he could be happy despite the stress despite the difficulties of the situation you can realize at the end of the day i'm gathering gold over here we have an opportunity to connect hashem throughout our day we have an opportunity to connect to hashem through davening through learning through going to make a paranosa for our family whatever it is that we're engaged in we always have an opportunity yes it could be stressful but if we focus on what it is the matara the purpose of what we're doing it for then a person can yes can be hard work or whatever it might be but if a person focuses at the end of the day what he's accomplishing what he's doing it's possible for a person to be basimha despite it all if he's able to focus on what it's really all about and therefore a person if he realizes this can connect to hashem in anything that he does and when a person realizes this then in fact it is possible for him to be basingha in everything and it's certainly not something that comes naturally it requires a perspective but this is the great challenge that we have in life to maintain perspective in everything that we do [Music]