When we are not happy we are testifying that Hashem DOES NOT
RUN THE WORLD. Sadness is the ultimate connection between sinning and letting
your sins get to your head. What is the logic behind it? It is pretty simple:
when we are upset, we believe that something is going wrong and Hashem “does
not have the power” to get us out of our misery and into a happy place.
Therefore, a real Jew is one who always sees everything in a positive light,
{unless they use this mindset to justify their sins, such as people who say
let’s dance at a mixed wedding or let’s go to a mixed beach to make everyone
happy and then there we can do kiruv (bring Jews closer to follow the Torah)
and say a couple words of Torah}.
The Orhot Tzaddikim explains: what is this similar to? A
king and his servant. When a servant knows his king is merciful, always opens
his arms and his wallet to his workers, does good to those around them and then
assigns them very difficult tasks and makes them pass through awful obstacles
there is NO DOUBT that this servant will stop everything he is doing in the
world for his king. 
Not only does the servant get paid, but he also becomes
close to the king, he gives the king advice in bad times and becomes respected
and even sits next to the king at the royal meals. After all the tough work,
when even more is given to the servant to do, no matter how excruciating and
painful, he will always remember he has the king to rely on. This thinking will
make the servant do the toughest jobs with a huge smile and no complaints.
Our Parasha, Ki Tavo, is the second and final place in the
Torah that lists horrible curses the Jewish Nation receive under a life without
Torah and Mitzvot directly from Hashem (scary). One of the pesukim (Devarim
28:47) that is in the middle of the list of curses discusses how we receive
curses because we do not do the Mitzvot with
happiness. Shabbat is only a couple of hours away. Hazal explain that one
who prepares on Friday eats on Shabbat. Maybe let’s try to make our Shabbat
better by being happier throughout today.
Judaism=Think.
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