Tools for a Happy Fulfilled Life

Novardok weekly | December 10, 2025

Tools for a Happy, Fulfilled Life:

Hashem wants more than anything that we should feel His unlimited love for us in particular on an individual level (see Chovos Halevavos: Sha'ar haBechina and Sha'ar Ahavas Hashem), and to go around with menuchas hanefesh, simchas hachaim (calmness and happiness), and a healthy connection with Him, which is the point of all Torah and mitzvos (see Vilna Gaon on Mishlei 22:19).
A smart person checks himself to see if the way he is doing Torah and mitzvos is actually making him a bigger, better, happier, healthier person with a healthier connection to Hashem. If not, you may be going down the wrong highway, and time to make a u-turn. Get yourself a private rebbi that understands you and knows how to bring out the best of you, and how turn you into a bigger, better, and happier person.
Everything about Torah and mitzvos, the world, and life at large, is positive, positive, positive. If you are coming out of anything with a negative feeling, then obviously you are taking the wrong message.
Human nature is to go after negativity (yeitzer leiv haadam ra miniurav), but we came to this world to go the opposite of our nature (see Vilna Gaon in E'ven Sh'leima Chapter 1) and to look for positivity (see Shaar haBechina), and to the "extreme", like the Rambam explains (Dei'os 2:2). And the more we focus on positive, like on our own good qualities, the more we receive. Hashem likes happy campers.
A person that lives with Hashem is not afraid of anything, and knows that no one could harm him even if he tried.
A positive person is great, but a negative person that does a daily exercise in becoming positive is even better.
All Hashem asks is that we do our daily exercise in strengthening our emunah and bitachon (belief and reliance on Him), like thanking Hashem in English for ten minutes a day, and that makes us automatically perfect and amazing.

Quote of the Week:

Says Rabbi Miller z"l: What is the #1 sin? Not appreciating all the tremendous good that Hashem is constantly doing for us!

Tools for a Happy, Fulfilled Life:

Hashem wants more than anything that we should feel His unlimited love for us in particular on an individual level (see Chovos Halevavos: Sha'ar haBechina and Sha'ar Ahavas Hashem), and to go around with menuchas hanefesh, simchas hachaim (calmness and happiness), and a healthy connection with Him, which is the point of all Torah and mitzvos (see Vilna Gaon on Mishlei 22:19).
A smart person checks himself to see if the way he is doing Torah and mitzvos is actually making him a bigger, better, happier, healthier person with a healthier connection to Hashem. If not, you may be going down the wrong highway, and time to make a u-turn. Get yourself a private rebbi that understands you and knows how to bring out the best of you, and how turn you into a bigger, better, and happier person.
Everything about Torah and mitzvos, the world, and life at large, is positive, positive, positive. If you are coming out of anything with a negative feeling, then obviously you are taking the wrong message.
Human nature is to go after negativity (yeitzer leiv haadam ra miniurav), but we came to this world to go the opposite of our nature (see Vilna Gaon in E'ven Sh'leima Chapter 1) and to look for positivity (see Shaar haBechina), and to the "extreme", like the Rambam explains (Dei'os 2:2). And the more we focus on positive, like on our own good qualities, the more we receive. Hashem likes happy campers.
A person that lives with Hashem is not afraid of anything, and knows that no one could harm him even if he tried.
A positive person is great, but a negative person that does a daily exercise in becoming positive is even better.
All Hashem asks is that we do our daily exercise in strengthening our emunah and bitachon (belief and reliance on Him), like thanking Hashem in English for ten minutes a day, and that makes us automatically perfect and amazing.

Quote of the Week:

Says Rabbi Miller z"l: What is the #1 sin? Not appreciating all the tremendous good that Hashem is constantly doing for us!

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