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  • Man's Quest for Happiness


    Rabbi Chait teaches that King Solomon first validates himself as worthy of teaching these fundamentals. To understand which life is best, Rabbi Chait stated that King Solomon then introduces us to man’s psychological makeup. From man’s great ambition to succeed, his surging energies, and his immortality fantasy, the King lays the groundwork—a map of the psyche—so we might appreciate his explorations into man’s quest for happiness. Rabbi Chait highlights the central theme that man creates and chases fantasies, and that these are the “futilities of futilities.”  Man assumes there is something “additional” in his pursuits. King Solomon exposes these fallacies.


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