Happiness is not a simple thing to acquire

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Rosh Chodesh Adar begins, and our Rabbis teach, mishenichnas Adar marbim b’simcha — when Adar enters, joy increases.

But real simcha isn’t random. The letters of simcha rearrange to form the root of Mashiach. Joy is connected to purpose. To destiny. To knowing what story you are part of. As Rav Noach Weinberg zt’l would say, if you don’t know what you’re living for, you haven’t really begun to live.

Adar is an invitation to ask that question. What are you living for? What gives your dancing, your working, your loving, your striving meaning? When life is aligned with purpose, joy stops being superficial and becomes powerful. Chodesh Tov. May it be a month of deep, purposeful simcha.

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