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Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 160): Serve With Joy - Mesillas Yesharim

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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choices to be our best selves and to be able to look back with pride each and every day and on the lives that we've led we began with zahira's mindfulness and caution zereses alacrity and zealand we've gone through countless uh midos so far and we're still up to bayer we have been defining what it means to be achasad what it means to not be satisfied with good but to strive for great and here in the context of what it means to live with piety what it means to be a khasir that has told us that the second hashem you know you seem to sometimes we might picture or conjure up this image that the hostage someone is truly righteous and pious walks around very sober very serious very careful to be basement to be jolly and happy that's not a hasid that's a frivolous person but teaching us it's exactly the opposite in hashem says a core part of your serving me is being happy is being joyful it's is being happy is being joyful it's being positive is living a joyful life don't walk around sad and sober and somber don't walk around absponding and depressed don't walk around negative and critical but put a smile on your face be happy so much so listen to these words of ram this is what we're up to um is gets angry with the jewish people

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  1. 0:32choices to be our best selves and to be able to look back with pride each…
  2. 1:32is being happy is being joyful it's being positive is living a joyful life don't walk…
  3. 2:33it miserably and you had such negativity and forbidden upon him the whole time so don't…
  4. 3:36did everything right but you did it without joy you did it without a smile you…
  5. 4:37face well you say i i don't feel happy i smile when i'm happy i'm not…
  6. 5:40not only you know what else is going to happen you know what else happens when…
  7. 6:41he's angry he's frustrated at jews who serve without happiness so i might have thought said…
  8. 7:41that's why misray mcconaughey it's a tanaiba dasam it's not i did the avodah i just…
  9. 8:49had already attained this level and he davened that this virtue should remain below tasur he…
  10. 9:51energy the joy kabbalah and they're so joyful in their contributions he says hashem lo tosura…

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