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<div dir="auto">Let’s just look at Ben Zoma (Avos 4:1):</div>
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<div dir="auto">אֵיזֶהוּ עָשִׁיר? הַשָּׂמֵחַ
בְּחֶלְקוֹ.</div>
<div dir="auto">Who is wealthy? Someone who is <em>sameiach</em>, happy, with
their lot.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Ben Zoma isn’t arguing for complacency. Look at his
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<div dir="auto">שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: יְגִ֣יעַ כַּ֭פֶּיךָ
כִּ֣י תֹאכֵ֑ל אַ֝שְׁרֶ֗יךָ וְט֣וֹב
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<div dir="auto">אַשְׁרֶיךָ — בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה.
וְטוֹב לָךְ — לָעוֹלָם הַבָּא.</div>
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<div dir="auto">As it says (Tehillim 128:2): “When you eat the labor of your
hands, you are enriched and<br />it is good for you.”<br />“You are
enriched” — in this world. “And it is good for you”
— in the world to come.</div>
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<div dir="auto"><br />Notice that one’s חלק, one’s lot or
portion, is also described as a journey to something in another
<em>mishnah</em> (Sanhedrin 10:1), which opens (emphasis added):</div>
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<div dir="auto">כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל יֵשׁ לָהֶם חֵלֶק
לָעוֹלָם הַבָּא.</div>
<div dir="auto">Every Jew has a חלק <strong>to</strong> the World to
Come.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Ben Zoma is not telling us to be happy with what we have in
the here-and-now, but to be happy with the path Hashem put us on to get to the
World to Come, and happy in this world with the work we were assigned to get
to a happy “place” there.</div>
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<div dir="auto">(This thought is explained at more length and depth in <a
href="/asp/widen-your-tent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Widen Your
Tent</a>, pp. 316-322, sec. “7.9: פסולתן של לוחות —
Extra Pieces of the Luchos”. Teaser: Note how Birkhas haShanim, the
berakhah in Shemoneh Esrei about wealth opens and closes talking about time.
Being happy not with the money, but with the year’s work of earning it.
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<div dir="auto">To me, that’s Simchas Purim. The happiness of</div>
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<div dir="rtl">לַיְּהוּדִ֕ים הָֽיְתָ֥ה אוֹרָ֖ה
וְשִׂמְחָ֑ה וְשָׂשֹׂ֖ן וִיקָֽר׃</div>
<div dir="ltr">For the Jews there was light and happiness, joy and
preciousness.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Or, as the Rabbi Yehudah unpacks it for us (see also “<a
href="https://www.aishdas.org/asp/purim">For the Jews, There Was
Light</a>“), <em>orah</em> (light) refers to
Torah, <em>simchah</em> (happiness) is Yom Tov, <em>sason</em> (joy)
is <em>beris milah</em>, and <em>yeqar</em> (preciousness) is tefillin.<br
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<div dir="ltr">The joy of Purim, , is not in studying Torah and doing
<em>mitzvos</em> alone. It is in seeing the light, happiness, joy and
preciousness of our חלק (lot), our path to the World to Come.</div>
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