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How can Jews be expected to be happy when they are not allowed to have any fun?
“Not allowed to have any fun”?! What’s “fun”? Music, parties, feasting, sex...? Jews do all that – just within the...
What is the key to happiness according to Kabbalah?
Learning Torah in general and, in particular, its inner aspect, Kabbalah, with the proper intentions brings a person to higher and higher consciousness of...
Happiness is an emotion; how can we decide to be happy?
According to Judaism, we are obliged to control what we do and say, and what we think and feel, too. A famous Chassidic saying is that 'the mind...
How is possible to be humble and happy at the same time?
Humility is generally understood to be the acknowledgment of one’s own insignificance within the general overall scheme of the universe and G-d. When...
Is it ever OK to be sad or depressed?
First, there is a difference between 'sadness' and 'depression'. Sadness is due to some cause. 'I feel sad because of...'....
Will being religious make it easier to be happy?
Any time anyone pursues a cure for happiness, happiness is probably about the last thing that person will find. Happiness is something that must come from...
How is it possible to be happy if G-d has given me a difficult lot in life?
There is no doubt that achieving happiness despite difficult circumstances in life is an enormous challenge. Yet, the Talmud teaches that God does not give...
How is it possible to be happy while struggling to do the mitzvahs and study Torah?
Jewish sources teach that we should serve God with no thought of reward. Learning Torah and doing mitzvahs should be done purely for the sake of God and to...
How can G-d expect poor folk to be happy?
It is obvious to anyone who has seen a bit of the world and known people from all strata of society that money is no guarantee of happiness. It may even be...
Isn’t it naive to be happy all the time, even when bad things are happening?
King Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes: “To everything there is a season and a time, for every matter under heaven...a time to weep and a time to laugh;...
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