[Avodah] Sukka must be kosher for sleeping?

[Zev Sero]

On 7/10/2010 4:33 AM, Micha Berger wrote:

> Forced happiness isn't necessarily simchas yom tov. It's simchas
> whatever-I-used-to-elicit-happiness. Nor is it likely to qualify as
> "akh sameiach" with none of the original irritation/sadness/whatever left.

En hochi nami.  But it's surely enough to justify saying leshev basukah.


> Now, returning to mitzta'eir... Creating happiness doesn't necessarily
> remove the tza'ar. RMMS (the last LR) writes WRT R' Nachman's "mitzvah
> gedolah lihyos besimchah tamid" that even during times of aveilus,
> a person should simultaneously feel simchah. This is why HQBH created
> within us the capacity for ambivalence.

It's a Zohar: "Chedva tekia beliba'i misitra da, uvchiya tekia beliba'i
misitra da".

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