Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov - Joy and Depression

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay shalom everybody today i want to talk a little bit about the concept of joy okay and when we talk about joy we have to understand that there's been a certain misconception that's been stuck into our minds thanks to our wonderful society about the concept of joy and that is misconception number one at least is that joy that our level of joy is a dependent that is a dependent meaning to say that how much joy i have will depend on all the different stuff i received or intake will determine how much joy i have right so like for example they put in the back of our minds that if only i had that blank you fill in the blank then i'll be happy right if only i had that girl then i'd be happy if only i had that guy then i'd be happy if only i had that job if only i had that six figure income if only i had that car if only had those looks only i had that figure then if only i had that life then i'd be happy but what happens imagine one day you get one of those things imagine you

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1. 0:44okay shalom everybody today i want to talk a little bit about the concept of joy…
2. 2:21companionship in order to get by but that's survival that's not thriving the real thriving real…
3. 4:28to translate the pain into gain so a person within themselves starts to swell up with…
4. 6:02that touchdown pass in the end zone crowd goes wild everyone's excited right and they come…
5. 8:10that what does the climber say i know he's not going right why but why not…
6. 10:15to understand what depression is all about right if we understand that joy is the experience…
7. 11:52right but let's hear let's take this example to its extreme right and that is but…
8. 13:56right and essentially this is a situation right this is the situation this is the situation…
9. 15:29anything else and therefore it always does the right thing right so we can say that…
10. 17:37our soul essence living out our godly essence living out goodness even here in this world…

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