Following the previous seminar series (“The Right to Heal” and “13 Gates of Personal and National Healing”), this new learning series focuses on one essential question: Is healing complete without the return to joy?
This series explores Simcha (joy) not as temporary happiness or external success, but as a deep inner capacity — spiritual, moral, and physiological.
In Jewish tradition, joy is not a luxury.

It is a mitzvah.
It is movement of the soul.
It is both a personal and communal responsibility.

The series will integrate classical Jewish sources (Torah, Talmud, Hasidic thought, Rabbi Nachman), explore Jewish dialectical thinking as a cultural foundation, and examine Jewish humor as a spiritual and cultural phenomenon — including the unique ability to laugh at ourselves as a sign of moral maturity and resilience.

Alongside the textual and spiritual dimension, the biological axis will also be presented: 
What happens in the body when we laugh?
How does joy influence the nervous system, immune response, and emotional regulation?
Why is laughter a profound release mechanism in times of trauma and stress?

The series will offer practical tools for returning to authentic joy — not as cliché, but as conscious discipline.

Each session will include:
Text-based learning
Contemporary cultural reflection
Examples from Jewish humor
Real moments of opening and shared laughter

This series seeks to restore to Jewish discourse the understanding that joy is an expression of inner freedom — and that in times of pain and polarization, we carry responsibility to preserve our capacity to laugh, breathe, and renew vitality.