Wonders4Life Shiur 768 Attitude
Aug 25, 2026 · 3 min · 2 segments
What Is My Attitude?
Aug 25, 2026 · 3 min · 2 segments
What Is My Attitude?
It's very unhealthy, physically unhealthy for a person to groan.
Very interesting.
So essentially the Gemara is telling us that when a person has a bad attitude and he's groaning, he's hurting himself.
He's pashut hurting himself.
Now, unfortunately, sometimes it feels good to give a zaguzun to groan.
You know, especially if a Usually it's when someone really has nothing to kvetch about, but it feels good to kvetch, especially when you have nothing to kvetch about.
It feels good to kvetch.
But the Gemara is telling us that the most healthy thing that a person can do is to be positive.
Because when a person is negative and he's kvetching and groaning, he's pashut destroying himself, as the Gemara says.
Rabbe brings a story with two Amiram that were walking, Chizda and Ula, and one of them kvetch.
And the other one said to him, why are you kvetching? Don't you know, Anochah Sheiveres Chatsi Gufi Shel Adam? How you let it kvetch? How you let it groan? So he said the reason why he groaned.
But Lamaisi, you see a Dover Ne'er Might, that a person's attitude pashut gives him longevity.
A person who's a happy person is pashut healthier.
It's not even from a frum perspective, pashut from a technical perspective.
Everybody wants to be healthy.
Everyone wants to have a healthy life.
People don't want to have tzaras.
I mean, even the doctors tell you that anxiety is the biggest killer of a person.
A person has to understand that being happy, being besimcha, being appreciative for what the Ribono Shelom does for you is the greatest form of longevity.
It keeps a person healthy and alive, keeps a person connected, keeps a person happy.
Happiness is the greatest way for a person to be able to live and be healthy.
It's very unhealthy, physically unhealthy for a person to groan.
Very interesting.
So essentially the Gemara is telling us that when a person has a bad attitude and he's groaning, he's hurting himself.
He's pashut hurting himself.
Now, unfortunately, sometimes it feels good to give a zaguzun to groan.
You know, especially if a Usually it's when someone really has nothing to kvetch about, but it feels good to kvetch, especially when you have nothing to kvetch about.
It feels good to kvetch.
But the Gemara is telling us that the most healthy thing that a person can do is to be positive.
Because when a person is negative and he's kvetching and groaning, he's pashut destroying himself, as the Gemara says.
Rabbe brings a story with two Amiram that were walking, Chizda and Ula, and one of them kvetch.
And the other one said to him, why are you kvetching? Don't you know, Anochah Sheiveres Chatsi Gufi Shel Adam? How you let it kvetch? How you let it groan? So he said the reason why he groaned.
But Lamaisi, you see a Dover Ne'er Might, that a person's attitude pashut gives him longevity.
A person who's a happy person is pashut healthier.
It's not even from a frum perspective, pashut from a technical perspective.
Everybody wants to be healthy.
Everyone wants to have a healthy life.
People don't want to have tzaras.
I mean, even the doctors tell you that anxiety is the biggest killer of a person.
A person has to understand that being happy, being besimcha, being appreciative for what the Ribono Shelom does for you is the greatest form of longevity.
It keeps a person healthy and alive, keeps a person connected, keeps a person happy.
Happiness is the greatest way for a person to be able to live and be healthy.
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