"Erase the Memory of Amalek" - Through Simcha, One is Saved from All Sins!"

"Through simcha (joy), one merits all healings! Through simcha, one merits all salvations! Simcha is the letters of 's-m-ch' (Koachvei Or, Sasson and Simcha) through which Amalek is erased! Sins are erased! Through simcha, one escapes all the sins in the world. One must be very careful to always be in simcha, because the moment there is a drop of sadness due to a sin or worry about livelihood, a person may fall into a greater sin! Due to sadness and worry, one may fall into even greater transgressions."

"There are people whose greatest pleasure is sadness, their whole life is within sadness, if you try to make them happy, you simply irritate them! They have never tasted the taste of simcha in their lives. "And the rule is that one must strengthen oneself with all one's might to always be happy because it is human nature to draw oneself into melancholy and sadness due to the troubles and occurrences of time, and every person is full of suffering; therefore, one must force oneself, with great strength, to always be in simcha" (Likutei Moharan, 24:2)."

"A Person Enters Sadness to Forget All the Sufferings He is Going Through"

"Sadness brings a person into a kind of melancholy, it puts his thoughts to sleep, it paralyzes his senses, sadness is a sedative! Sadness is a sedative that gives 'quiet', 'peace', but it's just an illusion! On the contrary! Sadness only increases the sufferings and amplifies them. Therefore, the main work of a person is the battle with sadness, and for this, one needs self-sacrifice! Never let sadness take over!"

"Rabbi Natan says that to fight despair requires self-sacrifice, simcha does not come just like that, simcha is the hardest of all things! The greatest obstacles are for simcha! Everything the Satan fights is only against simcha! This is what he fights! The whole battle is that you should not be happy! This is the act of the Satan that you should not be in simcha, that you should not dance, and not rejoice. Everyone experiences insults and humiliations, everyone goes through adventures in body and soul. There are a million reasons to be in sadness! It is human nature to be in sadness! But with simcha, everything can be arranged, if a person dances and sings to Hashem, then all the abundance comes to him."

"There is no reason to be in sadness, everyone has tremendous intellect, everyone can reach all things in the world, a person just needs to get out of all the sadness. With simcha, one merits to turn the descent into an ascent, to sweeten all judgments, to all salvations."

One Needs Self-Sacrifice to Reach Simcha!

Rabbi Natan says: The main accusation and provocation of Haman Amalek is against simcha, Haman cannot tolerate the simcha of the Jewish people, they dance, rejoice, sing, on holidays and Shabbatot, etc. Shabbat arrives? Shabbat is simcha and dancing, for six days you received food, Baruch Hashem you are not sick, start dancing and rejoicing, your wife is healthy, start dancing and rejoicing, do you have children? Start dancing and rejoicing, don't have children yet? Through simcha and dancing, you will have children! Don't have a match yet? Through simcha, you will have a match! When Shabbat arrives, you need to sit with the children, rejoice with them, and sing with them with enthusiasm and desire, not to say - I am unfortunate, I am desperate, it's hard for me to be happy, what does it mean it's hard for me to be happy? It's hard for everyone to be happy!! One needs self-sacrifice to reach simcha! Through simcha, a person subdues all the klipot, purifies from all impurities, through simcha, one can heal all the diseases in the world. A person sees that he has failed, that the body has overcome him, Amalek has overcome him and wants to bring him down into sadness and melancholy, nevertheless, he must not fall in his mind, he must immediately seek friends, dance with them, rejoice with them, say Tehillim, seek all kinds of advice on how to be happy."

A Person is Full of Good Points and the Yetzer Hara Fights to Make Him Forget This

A person needs to know that the sins do not belong to his neshamah (soul), the neshamah is always righteous, always pure, always holy, all the falls into sins are because he is not sufficiently happy, and therefore one must not fall in his mind for anything in the world, for any sin in the world, if there is any problem, if you failed in any sin, do teshuvah... start rejoicing, singing, playing music, saying Tehillim, the main thing is not to fall into sadness! Because this is the battle between the neshamah and Amalek! This is the battle between you and the evil inclination! That wants to bring you down into sadness. It's not that you became wicked, God forbid, but this is "the battle" this is a battle between the divine neshamah and Amalek. And one must continue the battle, with simcha, songs, good points. "And therefore, by not letting oneself fall and reviving oneself by searching and finding some good points in oneself..., through this, melodies are made, and then one can pray and sing and give thanks to Hashem" (Likutei Moharan, 282)."

"Because Amalek wants to make a person forget his good points. The battle of Amalek is in everyone, telling him – you are no longer worth anything, nothing is going for you, you have no good. But the tzaddikim teach us the opposite! You are full of good points! You are full of good! Because if you failed, now rejoice even more! See what a great evil inclination you have and how many difficulties you face, see what a great evil inclination you are dealing with every day! And in this difficult situation, you still overcome and perform mitzvot!? You still fast on Yom Kippur!? You still observe Shabbat!? You still lay tefillin!? Which is the crown of the king, wrap in tzitzit? Which is the garment of the king. So you should rejoice more and more..."

One Must Use Descents to Bring Others to Teshuvah - This Also Happened to Me!

"A person who has experienced descents can bring the whole world to teshuvah, he can tell people, this also happened to me, this also happened to me, tell people: do teshuvah – it's hard for you, you don't know how? See, I was there, in the same place you were, here I did teshuvah, you do it too. All the descents a person has gone through, it is so that he will be a guide, he was in the klipot and he came out, to show people how to get out of the klipot, all the descents a person has gone through, wherever he has been, he was only a messenger, he was only like a diver sent to the depths of the sea, to bring people out and save them."

The "Noam Elimelech" says there is a klipah that does not allow redemption to come, does not allow redemption to be revealed. And one needs to know how to break this klipah, how to crack it. Every person is in a certain klipah, a klipah of desires, a klipah of sadness, a klipah of "closure of the mind". If one wants to subdue the klipah, one must be in simcha! Because it is impossible to subdue the klipah except through simcha! And when a person strengthens himself and overcomes to be in simcha, then all sadness and all exiles and all troubles fall and are nullified. Our Rebbe innovated a completely new innovation – know that there is no despair in the world at all! There is no such thing as despair! Even in the most difficult situation! Even in the greatest crisis! If a person holds on for five minutes in simcha, dances, sings, then everything turns for the good! One must always come home with a smile, always come home with simcha, at home they should not know that you are now in trouble, in crisis, if you cannot smile and be happy, sit outside on the steps, make smiles, make movements of simcha, practice and then enter the house with joyful faces, with shining faces."

"If a person holds on and rejoices, he can merit all the miracles in the world, all the work of a person is to always be happy with self-sacrifice, to always say "everything is for the good", this is his test! If he says this is also for the good about everything, he will come out of all the sufferings in the world! He will have miracles and wonders."

"A Person Must Rejoice, Sing, and Thank Hashem Always, Before a Trouble Comes, God Forbid!"

"Do not wait for a trouble to come and then be released from the trouble, and then when released from the trouble, you are already obligated to thank! To sing! To bring a thanksgiving offering! Rather, always rejoice! Always sing to Hashem! Always recognize the greatness of Hashem! "Let every neshamah praise Hashem" every breath praises Hashem, you breathe, start rejoicing! For every breath, you need to sing! Do not wait for troubles! Because if you rejoice in every situation, sing to Hashem, thank Hashem, then troubles will not come."

The main work is not to be in sadness even for one second. Because there is no reason to be in sadness! One must believe that every Jew is capable of reaching all good in material and spiritual matters, to all success in the world! There is a matter of rejoicing in the fact that He did not make me a gentile, that He made me a Jew! Baruch Hashem, I merited to observe Shabbat, I merited to lay tefillin, rejoice that you merited to pray! It's like you found a diamond worth millions! One must always continue to bring simcha upon oneself! Endless simcha! If you do not know what to rejoice about? You need to rejoice that Hashem created us as divine beings, this is the greatest simcha "Let Israel rejoice in its Maker, the children of Zion exult in their King" rejoice with Hashem, that Hashem created us for His glory "Blessed is our God who created us for His glory and separated us from the errant."

The moment we rejoice, learn, pray, the moment the whole world sees, all the nations see that the weapon of the Jew is simcha, Torah, prayer, they will all be nullified. The moment Hashem sees us in true simcha! That we are happy with Him! Then He will nullify all decrees! All troubles! So what is left for you? Start rejoicing in Hashem! Rejoice with Hashem! Only with Hashem! Only with Hashem can you rejoice! He is living and eternal! Hashem is eternal! Hashem loves you! Hashem created you! Hashem believes in you! Hashem believes in your teshuvah! He will never abandon you! He will give you everything."