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Regarding Simcha For an example, some times there are people who are rejoicing and dancing, and then they grab a bystander who is sad and in the grasp of melancholy, and they bring him by force into the circle of the dancers. They force him against his will to dance and rejoice with them. ... When a person rejoices, sadness and suffering depart from him.. But there is even a bigger accomplishment - to run after the melancholy and to force it into the (circle of) joy, so that sadness itself turns into simcha. Like the man who is brought into rejoicing, so does sadness and suffering turn into joy. Exultation turns all his sadness and worries and suffering into joy. What happens is that one grabs melancholy and brings it by force into (the circle of) joy... This is what it says, "Happiness and joy they will realize, and sadness and worry will flee (Ishaia 35)... you have to actually pursue sadness and overtake it and specifically bring it into joy,,, for sadness and worry flee from joy.. For there is sadness that comes from the Sitra Achra and it does not wish to become a carriage (merkava) for Holiness, so it runs away from it Therefore you must force it (to enter) into holiness, which is joy, by force. (Likkutei Moharan II:23) |
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