[Avodah] Happiness and Wealth

[Yoni Leibowitz]

Does anyone know the location of the Medrish Tanchuma that teaches the
following: The letters of the word ashir stand for einayim, shinayim,
yadayim, and raglayim. And the lesson is that sameach b'chelko means to
realize that we are all extremely wealthy because we have a functioning
body, and because we have organs such as these four which we wouldn't sell
for any price (teeth used to be less replaceable). The Medrish also goes
through a story of rich person 1 not being content because he saw rich
person 2 who was richer than him, but then rich person 1 passed by rich
person 3 who had less than him, and it made him happy to focus on how much
he had, and then rich person 3 wasn't content because he saw rich person 1
and he was jealous of him, until he passed by rich person 4 who had less
than him... and on and on until it's a poor person passing by someone with
no arms, etc., so focus on what you do have and you'll be happy, and it ends
off by saying that even someone who has no wealth or health or anything,
even he has enough to praise Hashem because at least he is alive and can do
mitzvos.
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