A Tu B'Shvat-themed lesson on happiness and life, narrated by Rabbi Paysach Krohn.
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[Music] I've come to speak today about a topic that is so important because of all the stress and all the challenges that each of us face every single one of us is challenged in certain ways and when you come to a gathering like this and you see so many people and you might think wow that person has everything that's only because you don't know what's going on in their lives everybody's got something whether family children problems parnassia problems health problems it's always something that's what golus is all about we may be living in Eretz Israel but we're still in Gullah still Messiah comes so the question is how do we cope every day and how can we become happy and content people so I want to tell you something amazing Rev Shimon Schwab once told me we all know the gomorrah mishenichnas adar Marvin B simcha when other comes we increase the simcha but do you know that the mattress tells us that not a majestic kumara the same Gomorrah the same mission that tells us mission illness of when the month of off comes the Martin B simcha we minimize our simcha so Rob Schwab pointer doesn't say that there's no simple enough even though that we remember the destruction of both bottom Mick dodge but mishenichnas adar barbam we increase mishenichnas adar me Martin we minimize our simcha but a yield always has to be by simcha a Yid always has to find something that should make them happy and he gave me a wonderful muscle and I'm happy to see that everybody here is over 20 years old because if you're under 20 you won't know the example what he told me and
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