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Wisdom. A person who wants to get out of debt should learn In the trait of joy. Help me always remember that Himself guards the covenant for him, and he is rescued
the Garden of Wealth and My Covenant of Peace. In addition, it is a great mitzvah to be joyful. May the evil from the pollution of a nocturnal emission.
My Covenant of Peace is a wonderful and essential book for inclination never persuade me to be depressed,
every man who wants to work on the principal matter in life: the whatever may be. May I always remember that When a person is joyful, he emerges from exile to
rectification of the covenant (sexual rectitude). A man is sent to this when a person is joyful he succeeds in everything. freedom, and he can settle his mind and return easily to
world principally to withstand the test of licentiousness and attain Most important, he succeeds in his prayer so that Hashem.
the rectification of the covenant. And this book is an encompassing
and complete guide to that topic. it is accepted, and he attains faith and everything When a person is joyful, he revives other people, and
good in the world. Therefore, advise me and teach
The Prescription me how to be joyful. Help me keep every piece of by doing so he performs a very great mitzvah.
advice on how to be joyful. Help me see only the Also, he has children and they do not die.
good in my life and rejoice in every good point in
A personal library of such books is like a wonderful pharmacy
that has medicine for every disease and problem. The prescription myself. Give me the proper awareness with which When a person is joyful and sings, he is able to speak to
is to take a book on the topic that you are working on and learn I can be joyful always. Help me engage in a great Hashem and pour forth his heart like water in hitbodedut.
a page a day or more, with a ruler and pen or pencil so that you deal of prayer and pleading on this topic every
can mark every point that you want to review, and copy sections day. And he sweetens judgments.
that you will read every day. Then, at the beginning of your every
session on the work of the will, remind yourself of these central This is an excellent and straightforward demonstration of the fact 3. The losses suffered by not mastering that
points that you have summed up and delineated. For instance, if that when we learn and then contemplate what we have learned, topic—in this case, a propensity to depression.
you are working on attaining joy, when you begin your work of the we are inspired to do the work of the will. And the more clear and
will, tell yourself: vivid our learning, the more we arouse our will and we approach When a person is depressed, Hashem is not with him.
the work of the will with enthusiasm. That is expressed physically and spiritually, so that he
I realize that my primary work in life is to acquire the suffers illnesses in his body and soul.
trait of joy, because that is the central requirement for We Learn and We Achieve
attaining everything good in life, in the physical and He experiences weakness.
spiritual realms. As a result of my working to attain joy, When a person does the work of the will using this approach,
it will be easy for me to acquire everything else that I with daily learning and prayer, he will certainly see changes and He experiences mourning.
want. Therefore, I must remind myself over and over that improvement in himself. As time passes and he continues to
attaining joy is my essential task, and that it is forbidden learn more deeply, to study more texts and to attain a deeper He experiences suffering.
to me to be dormant and inactive. I must work every understanding, he will gain an inner sense of faith, upon which all
day to learn about this topic, practice the advice that joy depends. That is because, besides all other advice, the core He experiences judgments.
advice to attain constant joy is to believe with complete faith that
I learn and engage in much prayer until Hashem will everything is for the good (as explained in In the Garden of He experiences arguments.
have compassion on me, distance me from depression as Wisdom). At times, a person undergoes difficult tests. The only
much as possible and help me attain joy on every level, approach that illuminates and helps him is the faith that everything He experiences fears, including the terror of death.
so that I will always be joyful. is for the good, in its simple sense: that everything is for the good.
He believes and knows that every experience that he goes through He experiences fires.
And I also realize that my being able to experience comes to him from Hashem with love and for his good, with the
constant joy depends on my faith that everything is