וּלְשִׂמְחָה מַה זֹּה עֹשָׂה

ביטוי (אנגלית)

What is the meaning of this?

הגדרה (אנגלית)

What is the meaning of joy?! In the question: What is the meaning of doing?

("I said, "I will sing for joy, and for gladness, what does this do?" - Ecclesiastes 2:2, and so on: "I will sing for joy" (Ecclesiastes 8:11), this is the joy of a mitzvah, "and for joy, what does this do?" this is the joy that is not of a mitzvah" - Masachet Shabbat 30:1, and so on: "But in him I was grieved in my heart, and for joy, what does this do? Here "The sorrow is lost for a man" - Y. Burla / Kasupim, 251, and so on: "And they did not stop dancing until the great crowd gathered - he asked them, "What is this man doing to dance?" - Agnon / Takrikh Shel Sifurim, 185, and so on: "Even the bartender came to his house happy and cheerful, but his wife did not know what joy this man was having" - Mordecai ben Yehezkel / The Book of Acts, Part Four, The Faithful, 243)