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hello everybody.

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when the time came to 
deal with happiness,

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asked the philosopher to explain to his
student, why a person can never be happy.

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in the human nature, 
explained the philosopher,

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if he has 50 he
wants a 100

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therefore he'll never be happy.

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isn't it , friends, reminding 
you of the sages,

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but agree with me, philosopher
is more known.

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the student insisted not to accept 
what the philosopher said,

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your honour assumes,
said the student

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that a human wants always more, and 
therefore he'll never have what he wants.

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but that's an assumption,

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what will happen your honour if 
we assume that it's not true?

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so to say, if we assume that a person wants 
50 and he has 50 and he doesn't want another50,

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will we then also say that
he's not happy?

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even if we assume, tald him the
philosopher, even then he woun't be happy.

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but why? asks the student, he 
has 50, he doesn't want 100

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why isn't he happy?

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simple, answered him 
the philosopher.

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you state that he's happy becouse he has
50 and he dosn't want more, right?

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right!

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from here, continues 
the philosopher,

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it can be concluded that he's happy
only becouse he has 50.

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and from here it can be concluded that
if he wants to stay happy,

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he has to watch over the 50 
that make him happy,

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but when you watch - you worry and when
you worry - there's no time to be happy.

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understand?

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let's assume that you're
right, says the student,

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but what will happen if we assume
that he wants 50,

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and he has 50 and he watches them and 
he doesn't have spare time to be happy,

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but if he dies with the 50, won't we be able
to determine retroactively that he died happy?

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really no, laughed the 
philosopher.

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if we assume that a person wants
50 and no more,

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and also he watches over
them all his life,

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and also if he dies together with
them, he doesn't die happy,

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why?

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becouse this we know,

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but he's already dead 
and dead aren't happy.

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therefore it's possible to determine that he wasn't
happy not in his life and not in his death.

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so friends, even if the philosopher is annoying, it's
very hard to cope with his statement.

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and today, today it's not only 
connected to philosophy,

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today it's already established
by research.

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in a generation of abundance like 
ours, it's clear to almost everyone

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that the thouhgt "if i have.
...then i'll be happy"

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is an illusion.

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and though that it's hard for us to accept it, 
those who tried this way tetify

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that it's painfully accurate.

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if we still hold this thought,

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maybe it's worthwhile to listen to the impossible
conditions, the method of "when i have" infolds,

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the Saba from Novardok 
counts them,

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and he writes:

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"that he has as much as he wants and he
doesn't need to worry about anything,

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and he has a good apartment and all the
material needs and cash for a needy time

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and the trade runs well, and all his 
possetions are under excellent guard

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and he has no enemies who
want to avenge him,

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and there's peace in the world and he's healthy and 
honoured by his surroundings and his oppinion is accepted

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and there's nobody to lower his worth and he's 
not under any mans' rule and everything he does he succeeds."

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did you understand 
friends? no chance.

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if we build on happiness dependent 
on external factors,

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all these factors, have to be 
present by us.

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not partially, all!

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becouse if one of them is lacking, we right
away come back to the worry of the man with 50.

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and the worry, as well known, doesn't 
enable people to be happy.

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so what should be done?
you ask.

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the truth, not much. 
simply building a suka.

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how is it connected?

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so, did you ever ask yourself,

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why do we build the suka when we build it in the time 
of harvest of fruit from the granary and from vinery?

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why in the days when we count the money we 
get out to a suka of a hundred shekel?

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why at the holiday of the most
"none" there is, we're ordered to rejoyce?

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why?

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to teach us the secret of happiness.

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the exit from the home to a temporary dwelling
place, specially while counting the stock

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it is intended to remind us 
the secret of joy.

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joy is a result of perfection.

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perfection is impossible by whom that his 
happiness depends on external factors.

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it's not that the problem is by us, the problem
is in the system! it's simply impossible.

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if the happiness depends on 
the granary and vinery,

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we have to worry till the harvest is
gathered - there should be a harvest.

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and after it's gathered - it should
be safe and not get lost.

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so when will we be happy?

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in the command of getting out to the suka, the tora
teaches us that if we trully want to get to joy and happiness,

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we have to change the disk, we have 
to understand the secret of joy.

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to understand that instead of the happiness being 
dependent of external factors that don't depend on us,

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that it should be dependent 
on factors inside of us.

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and nobody can take it from us.

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that instead of investing in the 50 left behind, to
invest in only what's left with us forever.

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may be it's the reason why Simhat
Tora is in the end of Sukot.

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why?

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becouse it's not a big wisdom to say,
how we don't get to happiness,

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the wisdom is also to
suggest an alternative.

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life that is based on an eternal tora, is built 
on what's inside of us, not on what's outside.

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such life, doesn't end when
the body is burried,

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but, this the philosopher
didn't know.

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why not?

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becouse when the greek were busy assuming 
assumptions, the jews were busy building suka.

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happy holloday!