Joseph Telushkin

and just have a private audience.

I'm reading Rebbe by Joseph Telushkin about the Lubavitcher Rebbe, you know? So just like he would have yachidus with people, right? He would have these one-on-one meetings.

And it just came to me like on Shabbat, like that's what Rosh Hashanah is.

It's our one-on-one appointment, right? with, with the almighty.

This was before I was ever married.

And I remember my dear friend who worked with me at this institute, and that is Joseph Telushkin, one of the most prolific Jewish writers in America today now.

And he made an observation to me, and I found his observations to be keen.

He... is less inclined to generalized observations than I am.

This was before I was ever married.

And I remember my dear friend who worked with me at this institute, and that is Joseph Telushkin, one of the most prolific Jewish writers in America today now.

And he made an observation to me, and I found his observations to be keen.

He... is less inclined to generalized observations than I am.

Nothing stops it.

Because happy people make the world better, and the unhappy make it worse, and that's the way it is, my friends.

Yes, it is.

Are you all singing? Yep.

The older I get, the more I realize how true it is.

I hit upon something really, really, really, really, really, really big when I realized how significant happiness is.

It's not a selfish pursuit, my friends.

Fun may be a selfish pursuit, but happiness is a moral obligation.

That's interesting because last week we read in the Parsha, when the Jews moved to Egypt, one of the things that Jacob requested was he live in Goshen.

Joseph also went along with that.

He wanted the Jews to live in Goshen, which is not in the midst of Egypt.

It's on the side boundaries of Egypt.

Jewish life, however grim externally, was infinitely precious, beautiful, and full of joy.

So that is something which, you know, what we have to, uh, try and inculcate is this idea that being happy overrides everything, uh, is a fallacy.

I have another article here written by, uh, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin.

They wrote a book which, uh, is, is imperative that everyone should read.