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Your Happiness According to the Rambam

Celebrating the completion of the Rambam study cycle

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Your Happiness According to the Rambam: Celebrating the completion of the Rambam study cycle

How does the Rambam view happiness? Discover how you can implement the Rambam’s ideas for a better and happier life. This powerful lecture is in honor of marking the 44th Siyum HaRambam—completing the study program of Rambam.

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Adar, Daily Study Cycle of Maimonides, Joy; Happiness

By Raleigh Resnick

Rabbi Raleigh Resnick, a popular teacher on Chabad.org, directs Chabad of the Tri Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and is dean of The Cheder of the Bay Area.

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Yoni Silver Spring March 3, 2025

Rabbi, Resnick, what a gevaldigeh shiur! Thanks so much. Reply

Hadassah Chavivah Brookline March 1, 2025

Thanks so much Rabbi Reply

Angela Wilder Brooklyn February 28, 2025

Thank you my frist RamBam.! Reply

Daniel Alexander Florida February 28, 2025

If a Jew is always supposed to be in a state of joy is a Jew in a state of joy on the 9th of Av? Is a Jew in a state of joy while attending his grandmother's funeral? Are there times, when sadness are appropriate? Reply

Tony Benjamin Burin Bay Arm March 2, 2025

in response to Daniel Alexander:

I say "Yes".

How can you understand joy if you haven't suffered sorrow? Reply

Kat Ballarat February 28, 2025

Oh sweet L-rd, this was so magnificent. Thank you for your 'compass' on this; TRUE joy. Reply

Rita Forbes Clinton February 27, 2025

Good Evening, Rabbi Resnick

Thank you for a very nice and energetic presentation. I find happiness to be external and it is based on what I contribute to the happiness of others. Whereas "joy" is what I feel in my relationship with GD and how He loves and cares for me. It is the heartbeat of GD, and I don't have to ever worry that it will flatline.

The Baal Shem Tov said, "Melancholy locks Heaven's gates, prayer opens them, but joy can break through walls."

Be blessed, Reply

Mark February 27, 2025

Rabbi, I ask if the Rambam, Rashi, Rebbe Schneerson, and all humans will have to answer for deeds chosen by free will during this short lifetime. Can all human neshumas place the blame on Rambam and others for following their imagined laws, commandments, and teachings?

Or are each responsible for choices made during each lifetime?

Job 32:7-9, "I thought, “Let age speak; Let advanced years declare wise things.” But truly it is the spirit in men, The breath of Shaddai, that gives them understanding. It is not the aged who are wise, The elders, who understand how to judge."

Follow His Torah or suffer the consequences in the pit? Reply

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