Wonders4Life Shiur 781 Simcha
Sep 23, 2026 · 3 min · 1 segments
What Brings Simcha?
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Sep 23, 2026 · 3 min · 1 segments
What Brings Simcha?
We say it over every year.
A person that's b'simcha on sukkahs, it's a guarantee that he'll be able to be b'simcha a whole year.
If you're b'simcha on sukkahs, the essence of the b'simcha on sukkahs is based on the posik in Keheles.
The reason why, and I heard from, they say over from one of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, I think one of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's, that he asked, why do children, they get upset about something, but they tend to forgive immediately, right? A child tells the father, I hate you, and five minutes later he's fine.
Adults say, I hate you, I'd love to talk to you again, and they don't talk to each other for 35 years.
He says, because children would rather be happy than be right, and adults would rather be right than be happy.
And happiness is based on a person's ability to overlook certain things and keep his focus on things that are really important in his life.
The more a person understands, Is this something that really should be getting me upset? So the person did not say X, Y, and Z.
So the person did X, Y, and Z.
Is that something that should really be bothering me? Is it qadai for me to lose my minuchas and nefesh? Because there's something silly that somebody did, or something silly that happened.
That's what Havel Haval HaMamechahel is.
Havel is steam.
It's smoke.
It disappears in a moment.
It looks very full, and it looks like there's a lot going on, but really there's nothing.
It's missed.
There's nothing there.
That's what a Havel is.
When a person develops that attitude of Havel, Havolim, Hakol Havel, when you do that, you're feeling, you're developing inside of you a hargish of appreciating and being besimcha with what the Rebbeinu Shalom gives a person.
And therefore, the attitude that we should have towards Sukkot is to try to ingrain in our minds this idea that something that I'm getting upset over, is it k'day to get upset over it? Is it worth it? Is it k'day to lose my minuchas and nefesh because of this situation? If I look at every situation like that, I'll be able to be v'samachta v'chagecha and subsequently v'hayissach sameach the entire year.
We say it over every year.
A person that's b'simcha on sukkahs, it's a guarantee that he'll be able to be b'simcha a whole year.
If you're b'simcha on sukkahs, the essence of the b'simcha on sukkahs is based on the posik in Keheles.
The reason why, and I heard from, they say over from one of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, I think one of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's, that he asked, why do children, they get upset about something, but they tend to forgive immediately, right? A child tells the father, I hate you, and five minutes later he's fine.
Adults say, I hate you, I'd love to talk to you again, and they don't talk to each other for 35 years.
He says, because children would rather be happy than be right, and adults would rather be right than be happy.
And happiness is based on a person's ability to overlook certain things and keep his focus on things that are really important in his life.
The more a person understands, Is this something that really should be getting me upset? So the person did not say X, Y, and Z.
So the person did X, Y, and Z.
Is that something that should really be bothering me? Is it qadai for me to lose my minuchas and nefesh? Because there's something silly that somebody did, or something silly that happened.
That's what Havel Haval HaMamechahel is.
Havel is steam.
It's smoke.
It disappears in a moment.
It looks very full, and it looks like there's a lot going on, but really there's nothing.
It's missed.
There's nothing there.
That's what a Havel is.
When a person develops that attitude of Havel, Havolim, Hakol Havel, when you do that, you're feeling, you're developing inside of you a hargish of appreciating and being besimcha with what the Rebbeinu Shalom gives a person.
And therefore, the attitude that we should have towards Sukkot is to try to ingrain in our minds this idea that something that I'm getting upset over, is it k'day to get upset over it? Is it worth it? Is it k'day to lose my minuchas and nefesh because of this situation? If I look at every situation like that, I'll be able to be v'samachta v'chagecha and subsequently v'hayissach sameach the entire year.
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