In this video, Rabbi Chaim Brovender discusses the issue of speaking or thinking on Shabbat about matters that are not in the spirit of Shabbat that have already taken place. This, he says, does not fall under the category restrictions derived from the passages in Yeshayahu.
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I was at an erusin (engagement party) this past Sunday night, where I heard a Rabbi speak about the quality of simcha – joy. It’s very easy to be sad, he pointed out. If you wake up in the morning and you didn’t get enough sleep, and you feel tired, then you’re sad. If you go to make your coffee and you find you’re out of milk, then you’re sad. If you go to get dressed and you can’t decide what to wear, and you don’t like any of the clothes hanging in your closet (granted, a more likely occurrence among women) then you’re sad. Sadness can take on many permutations, such as frustration, disappointment, grumpiness, exasperation, and lack of motivation, but really, all of these emotions come from the same place. We, as flawed and finite beings, are able to see only a small fraction of the ultimate Reality, and so we inevitably perceive flaws in our own small “reality”. The result is that you can always find plenty of reasons to be sad, and it’s very easy to let yourself succumb to it. In that sense, sadness could really be attributed to laziness. It requires substantial effort to overcome the instinctive feelings that arise when things aren’t “just right” or when a situation isn’t quite what you wanted it to be.
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