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Street Farbrengen Episode 131 - "Why Do many Frum Jews Look So Tired?"
Why do so many sincere, mitzvah-observant Jews look like they're carrying the world?
That's the question this episode refuses to let go of — and it leads somewhere unexpected. Working from a striking maamar of the Frierdiker Rebbe, the conversation reframes simcha not as a mood you're supposed to perform, but as the very condition that lets you perceive what a mitzvah is actually doing. Put on tefillin without simcha, and the Ohr Ein Sof you're drawing down remains hidden — not because it isn't there, but because you're not holding the space for it to be begiloi, revealed.
To get there, the…
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