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Parshas Ki Savo Pathways to Joy by Dr. Rubie Minkowitz · The Frum Health Club Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Gichabis, parshas gisava, and approaching Hai Elom.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Our Parsha tells us to be happy, Visa Mahta, and the pathway to get there.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: I love that in Lush and Kradish, the holy tongue, there are so many words for happiness.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: Sasin, Simcha, Gila Rina, Titsa Vedva.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's like the many words for snow in Eskimo language.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: So we see happiness is a priority.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: And the first Aliya tells us how Visa Mahta Bakalate, be joyful by finding goodness in your life.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Have a gratitude for what you have.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: Write a gratitude journal and thank Hashem.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: Maidaani is the first thing we say in the morning because it starts the day the right way, giving thanks to God.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, give to others to find joy.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: We read about the Bikurim, giving the first of your harvest, the sweat of your hands to the Kain, and Myser, giving to the poor.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: And while we don't have Bikuram today, giving Siddaka to those that need is the equivalent.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: Furthermore, by giving we read that Hashem will look down from his lofty place, Hashkifa Miminkha, and he will bless us.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: And usually the word Hashkifa is said by punishment, but here because of your giving to others, it turns it into blessings.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: three, know your story, the story of our people.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Each person proclaim the passages that we read in the beginning of the Parsha, which are the same ones that we read in the Agada at our Seder table, that Hashem chose us to be an Am Sagula, a treasure nation, and we mentioned the first anti Semite Lovan who wanted to kill all of us, and the miracles Hashem performed for us, and we are an Amkaldesh, having a godly purpose to illuminate the world.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: And when we have and say our story, the why we are here, it allows us to endure anyhow.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: And you can see, in my opinion, people and countries that don't have or lose their narrative, their story, they become lost and depressed and ultimately decay.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: And we see studies that show people with higher levels of happiness and positivity live longer.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: Furthermore, we say Simcha Piritzget, joy breaks all boundaries.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: And in the middle of the Techah that we read this week, which is read by the Baalkare, in a low voice and very fast, because we are reading about the dreadful things, the Tara reader then pauses by the words Bis Simcha Uvatublev and raises his voice with these words, saying that we should serve Hashem with joy, and that can reverse the entire Techah.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: So be happy.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: And with Hai El coming up, which is the birthday of the two great luminaries, the Baal Shemtav and the Alta Rebbe, it is apropos to mention the famous story of the Alta Rebbe and his son.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: The Alta Rebbe used to read the Terah.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: One year he was away for our Pasha Kisabe, and someone else was the Balkare.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: The Alta Rebbe's son, who would become later the Mithil Rebbe, heard the reading of the Tehra and fell into a deep faint, and got quite sick for a long time, and they were not even sure he was well enough to fast on Yum Kippur.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: They asked him, Why did he get so sick when hearing the curses of the Tehra?
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: We repeat them every year, and you never get sick before.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: He replied, When my father the Altarabah reads it, I only hear blessings, and when someone else reads it, I hear the opposite.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: And may it be we should hear and see revealed blessings in our lives and merit the Haya Kisava, the first passage of our parsha, and it will be with the coming of Mashiach that we will all go into the holy land with the ultimate joy and happiness of the Gaula.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: Kassiva Hasima Teva and Gujavas.