Ahavas Hashem-Enjoying Life Rabbi Berkovitz-3

From the Shiur Living Your Life with Kedusha by Rav Berkowitz on Aish Audio

In order to serve Hashem you have to be happy. The mitzvah of Ahavas Hashem is to develop a love of life, who made it and why. Service of Hashem is enjoying the world he made in a proper way. If when things go wrong you are down, that is interfering with your ahavas Hashem. It is only through working on our middos to the point of getting rid of our addictions that we can really enjoy life, and truly do the mitzvah of ahavas Hashem.

Getting Used to less- Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovitz-1

From- Living Your Life with Kedushah by Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovitz

We know that there are things that we do that are right and things that are wrong, how do we come to cross this barrier?
We allow ourselves to develop needs within the world of Mutar (permitted) and we become addicted to these needs. This causes us to cross boundaries that we don't want to.

We have to learn to enjoy this world without becoming addicted to anything.