What is Happiness?

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

[Music] let's get cracking people I would like you to I want to do an exercise I want to do this together um I don't usually do it like this but you wouldn't have known that so I shouldn't have told you but I did and I would like to do the following I want you all to think of a time in your life think of a time in your life when you were happy think of a time in your life when you were happy and I'm like don't tell me what it is just think about it think about a time in your life when you're happy anyone else have a time in your life and you're happy think of a time in your life I want to guide you a little bit and I want you not to confuse something which maybe is not confusion we'll take a look soon when we get into some some sort of definitions but pleasure and happiness don't necessarily come together does that make sense what I just said you could have pleasure without being happy you get that that's just a guiding and we're gonna go on now we've come up with a couple of examples now I want to get a bit deeper

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1. 0:00[Music] let's get cracking people I would like you to I want to do an exercise…
2. 3:13he's happy for other reasons you ask the person who's rich why are you happy as…
3. 6:54that you smile right what do you mean are you asking what do you have to…
4. 10:31I don't know what you meant by that but if you met this right good and…
5. 14:10you open it then then you walk in and there's the guy he's lying in the…
6. 17:55just gone and invested so much and to not only baloney but might even be against…
7. 21:01it or go with it you get it if I tell you there's something greater than…
8. 24:36even if it's difficult challenging and hard you love it you get that now the question…
9. 28:45doing it's unbelievable it's unbelievable but if you don't recognize that you're supposed to be doing…
10. 32:21right then there's water going on bigger one is getting unified Factor not satis not necessarily…

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