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COMMENTARY February 2021 29A

Live your life with vigor and joy

ment” and bestows upon a person and positivity, it leads us to all kinds Please take the concepts enumerat-
child’s stomach and neck for better good spiritual abundance. This means of negative behavior, which ultimately ed to heart. Live your life with vigor
safety and comfort. From that when we are joyful and positive, downgrades our life and precludes us and joy, and know that happiness leads
City Transformer offers a folding we have the inner power to dictate a from benefiting fully from the bless- us to fulfill our true potential.
electric two-seater car that can reach the sweeter, better and more superior out- ings G-d bestows upon us. Lastly, if you know someone strug-
up to 55 miles per hour. Four of them come on any encounter of life’s trials In short, sadness has the destruc- gling with sadness, please guide them
fit into a standard parking spot. Bimah and tribulations. Through a more joy- tive potential to drag a person down with warm words, direct them to seek
DouxMatok’s Incredo Sugar al- ful attitude in life, we can exceed our and hinder one from leading a life that help and encourage them to live life to
lows bakers and food companies to expectations of ourselves and life. In is meant to be fulfilling, joyful and en- its fullest.
reduce sugar content by 30-50% while a certain sense, being joyful despite riching. Happy Purim!
retaining the same level of sweetness. Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz facing a challenge can create a better
The sugar grains are engineered so Chabad of Sarasota reality for ourselves. games for children. “What on earth are
that most of the flavor reaches the taste I want to share one more factor BRIEFS these for?” I wondered. “There isn’t a
buds. (Shoshanna Solomon, Times of s we are about to celebrate the about joy based upon the founding kid in sight. We’re all over 60.” And
Israel) Purim holiday, known as the principles of Chassidic teachings. then it struck me, as people happily
Aholiday of joy, I would like to Tanya, a book authored by the first continued from previous page and gratefully took copies of the book-
3,000-YEAR-OLD GOLD share a few words on the topic of joy. Lubavitcher Rebbe, uses a parable to the Israel that knows how to show our let – and then asked for another copy or
BEAD DISCOVERED IN Everyone agrees that joy is essen- depict the struggle of day-to-day life. national resilience when facing a mor- two. The booklets weren’t for us – they
TEMPLE MOUNT EARTH tial for a positive, healthy life. One of Imagine a battle between two peo- tal enemy. were for our grandchildren.
A First Temple-era gold bead was dis- the Chassidic movement’s foundations ple, one strong and the other weak. In This is still a country that when There are still moments here when
all probability, the stronger will win
is joy. The question is, why? What
covered in August during sifting of a little kid is crying outside without we recognize that this is not a country
earth from the Temple Mount by Bin- makes joy so crucial and central to our the wrestling match against the weak an adult in obvious proximity, people like any other. It is a country that was
lives in general, and living life as a Jew
one.
yamin Milt, age 9, from Jerusalem. The in particular? However, one fundamental com- scoop him or her up and wait for some- founded to give sanctuary to a partic-
bead was in such outstanding condition The following are a few pointers ponent plays a significant role in any one to show. These past few weeks ular people that desperately needed it,
that it was initially dismissed as mod- that serve as motivational tools with struggle, wrestle or challenge that we have evoked once again that Israel that one that has weathered more in seven
ern. But Temple Mount Sifting Proj- sees itself as a family. decades than most countries do in cen-
ect co-director Prof. Gabriel Barkay regard to maintaining a happy dispo- face: motivation. If one is strong but I was momentarily confused as we turies, and that has produced a sort of
sition.
lacks motivation or willpower, there is
took a closer look and dated the bead 1. When a person is happy, he is a good chance that the weaker oppo- waited the required 15 minutes after the familial resilience that can’t be repli-
to the First Temple period, based on not pulled down by any negative cir- nent will be victorious in the wrestling shot, as staff members walked around cated anywhere else. (Daniel Gordis,
almost-identical silver beads manu- cumstances. He sees everything in a match. handing out copies of little booklets: Bloomberg)
factured using the same “granulation”
So, too, in real life. When some-
technique, which Barkay had excavat- more positive light and life becomes one loses the spirit of life, the joy of
more manageable.
ed in Jerusalem in the 1970s. 2. Happy people are usually more life, he becomes passive and compla-
The handmade bead is fashioned tolerant and kind. Sad people, on the cent in leading a positive, joyful and
from four layers, each made of tiny other hand, are often impatient, suffer more healthy lifestyle. When sadness
gold balls that adhere to each other. To
produce it required the ability to melt more, and are more prone to experi- overcomes us, it is hard to win the
“wrestling match” and compels one to
ence depression.
the metal at high temperatures, and 3. From a Kabbalah point of view, feel deflated and defeated of all posi-
a high level of skill from the artisan. joy is a medicine that “sweetens judg- tivity. When despair “wins” over joy
In the past 15 years, through the help
of some 200,000 paying volunteers,
the sifting project has recovered over

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