The Chassidic Approach To Joy
the Talmud: “The Shechinah (Divine Presence) comes upon us neither out of sadness nor out of raucous laughter … but out of the joy of mitzvah.”† Perhaps this is why the prophet Zechariah predicted that in the end of days the whole world will come to celebrate Sukkot. It is in Jewish hands to bring that Presence into personal life and into the world
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the mitzvot in this understanding gain an irreplaceable urgency that embodies delight, companionship in times of joy and sorrow, at our waking, and throughout our days.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
There is no one in the world who does not suffer in one way or another. People have all kinds of hardships and difficulties. It may be the problems of making a living, their health or domestic troubles with their wife and children and the other members of the household. Nobody can escape a certain amount of pain and hardship, because “man was born
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