Rabbi Naftali Silberberg | Living Joyfully: The Tanya way to Happiness & Fulfillment

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Good evening everyone. Today we're going to be doing lesson five. So we're going to be starting on page 184 in your book. Sorry. Second to lecture class next week. Hashem important class next week. Next week's going to be all about and even if you think you know we'll take you on a journey. Okay. So we've had four lessons up until this point and uh in the four up until this point and uh in the four lessons we've kind of established how to get rid of in lesson one we established the importance of of being happy and the problem with being happy is that we're unhappy. I know that sounds simplistic but when you're unhappy you can't be happy. Or to use another analogy imagine that you have you're in your car and you're pushing the gas and you want to move forward. car should be moving forward, right? But what if hooked to your backside is a 18-wheeler and it is pushing pulling the 18-wheeler and it is pushing pulling the car in other direction. So you can push your gas the g your gas pedal from til tomorrow the car is not going to budge. The same thing is also we can be pushing the pedal. I want to be bimh I want to be bimha but the negative emotions that we're experiencing known as is pulling us in the opposite direction and we can't really be bimha if we are being bogged down by. So the first thing we have to do is we have to get rid of the atos and that we've done okay at least theoretically we've done that over the last uh last lessons we've talked about how to deal with the negative emotions that come from material issues we've

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