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The not so good thing is that still, the word happiness itself,

it implies a kind of something that we can attain.

I don't really know if we can attain happiness.

Happiness is kind of like a byproduct of doing certain things.

Welcome to the Ziggler show.

I'm Kevin Miller and I'm here today with my co-host, Executive Vice President of Ziggler, Mark Tim.

In this episode we talk with Rabbi Evan Moffick.

Rabbi Moffick became the youngest senior rabbi

of a large synagogue in the United States

at the age of 31.

He's just released his new book, The Happiness Prayer, Ancient Jewish Wisdom for the best way to live today.

So it's derived from a literal prayer recited and sung during Jewish worship handed down

from rabbis 2,000 years ago. What's interesting is

Rabbi Mofik showcases this prayer as being just as relevant regardless of your

faith or even if you claim a faith which in essence to me makes it

somewhat cognitive training and I actually ask him about that as much that as it is a

prayer so we dig in in this show into what happiness why it's such a big topic today and what causes

our happiness to erode. The meat of the interview is in the latter half of the

interview where we dissect the

ten point structure that causes or hampers our happiness he actually started out

using that structure he was going to title the book,

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