I say every morning ‘sheasah li kol tzarci’- Hashem, You have provided me with all of my needs. Three times a day I remind myself that You open Your hand and satisfy every living thing with its desire. I know You want me to be happy, to enjoy Your world, to keep mitzvos and do Your will...so if that’s the case, WHY AM I SO BROKE?

In this week’s Shmuz on the Parsha, we will take a closer look at this apparent contradiction. Listen now and learn how to:

Free yourself from the unhappiness caused by unfulfilled desires

Start really enjoying the good things in life

Handle every nisayon like a baal bitachon and get more resilient to life’s challenges
Even if you’re more comfortable than Jeff Bezos, you’re going to find this week's Shmuz very relevant.

Despite living in the relative luxury of the first world, many people feel as though their life is mediocre at best, and downright miserable at worst. In his introduction to The Pursuit of Happiness, Rabbi Shafier begins by challenging the listener to self-reflect on their own satisfaction with life, and offers some new insights as to what being ‘happy’ really means in our society.

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Truly life changing advice.

Featuring:

* Dr. David Lieberman

* R' Reuven Epstein

* R' Bentzion Shafier

Join Rabbi Shafier as he unveils Chazal’s ancient secrets on how to attain true happiness:

- Learn how wider society bombards you with messages that bring you down, and what you can do to protect yourself

- Stop the negativity, resentment and jealousy with a powerful shift in perspective

- Gain practical strategies to move past negativity and into fulfilment

During the period of the Three Weeks we are urged to awaken ourselves to the horrifying and the heartbreaking. The moments of our existence as a People that bring us to tears and make us long for the geula. In this moving shmuz Rabbi Shafier encourages you to look at your greatness and your failings, including your own misconceptions of the nature of Hashem and the purpose of suffering.

Remember when we had to watch a ton of Holocaust movies to feel any stirring of emotion on Tisha B’Av? Remember when we had to drag ourselves out of our pampered comfort zones to think about what it must have been like to suffer at the hands of the Romans? It wasn’t easy to imagine what a dangerous, frightening, unpredictable world meant.

Is it still hard? I don’t think so. Even the sceptics agree with the Chofetz Chaim ztl, who said before Moshiach comes, it will feel like the world is spinning faster and faster and faster.

When will it stop?

Have you ever heard the three rules of criticism?

Don’t do it

Don’t do it

Don’t do it

Ok, everyone knows how it feels to be criticized. Everyone agrees that it’s damaging to our most precious relationships. Some people have lived under the shadow of criticism their whole life, and have the arduous task of trying to rebuild their self-esteem and confidence. So if it’s so incredibly obvious as to why we shouldn’t do it- why do we? In this week’s Shmuz Live, I’ll be deconstructing the science behind the scorn, and give some real-life, practical advice on how to overcome this destructive habit.