How to Attain a Joyous Life?

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

which of course is teaching us something and that is that it has to do with our mindset it has to do with how we think about life there are two ways of thinking about life there is how happiness thinks and there is how depression thinks or how sadness thinks and it's critical that we develop a mindset of mahashava which is basement because it always begins with my thought processes as it says in tanya every single emotion that we experience every single emotion that we experience every emotion that we experience every sensation that we experience in our body everything that we experience is always preceded by a thought it doesn't come in a vacuum there's always a machover that precedes it that's what it says in tanya and that thought is rooted in a certain inner idea in a certain inner value or inner emotion or inner attitude or inner perspective which is rooted in an idea that we have it's not always in an idea that we have it's not always easy to see but that's the truth sometimes i need help in tracing back the experience the sensation the emotion to the thought and to the idea that is fueling it but that is its soul it has a it has an engine and the engine is always an idea and therefore we say that when i change my mind i change my find when i change my attitude i change my reality there's an i change my reality there's an incredible story that the tzamak zedek writes was a grandson of the baal hatanya the altareb is birthdays his grandfather the balatanya escaped napoleon who invaded russia in the summer of 1812 june 1812. and the balatin did not want to be under napoleon he preferred that the czar would triumph over

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