What Made Simchat Beit HaShoeva the Greatest Joy in the World? Rabbi YY Jacobson

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What we're going to address today is something very exciting, pun intended, and that is the deeper and the nature of the joy of sukus from a a deeper emotional and spiritual point of view. Everybody knows that one of the harder things to attain in life is sim joy because it's elusive. What exactly is joy? What makes a person happy? Why are there some people happier, some people there some people happier, some people less happy? What's the secret of joy? It's one of those things that uh um I think there's a book by Dennis Prager titled happiness is a serious problem. And I once heard from him the way he got the title was he was invited by uh Rabbi Schlim Schwarzy of Kabad of UCLA many many years ago to give a lecture for the UCLA students and the topic was uh happiness. So he says what do you want me to say? Well, he said happiness is a serious problem. Said, "Oh, great. serious problem. Said, "Oh, great. That's the lecture and that became the book." Something like that. Sukus are eight days dedicated and defined as although joy is a mitzvah all year around even as a we say it every morning. Serve Hashem with joy. And when do you serve Hashem? 24/7. So really simk is a mitzvah 24/7. Yet, like everything in Yiddish, there are days of the year that are highlighted, that are focused, zoomed into this particular theme. Even though

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