Marc Gellman: Worry, Don’t Be Happy
Marc Gellman is a revered Rabbi. He obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University and also completed a six-year rabbinical program at Hebrew Union College in only three years. Marc Gellman has been a Rabbi since 1981. Rabbi Gellman has written many spiritually inspired books. He also is an avid golfer and writes articles for Golf Digest magazine. Marc Gellman writes on happiness from his experiences as a Rabbi. Gellman starts his book by analyzing the saying, “All I want is that my children should by happy.” Gellman believes this is wrong because bad people can be very happy. He equates it to the spiritual realm where sinners can be happy and saints can be tormented. Gellman believes this is often the case. Gellman uses pathos by bringing back to memory childhood cartoons where Superman is always upset while Lax Luthor enjoys his every act of carnage, the Joker is always smiling and Batman is morose, Gandhi and Schweitzer were troubled souls that were able to do good, while gangs celebrate over the killing of a rival gang member, or when the twin towers were burning and people were being burned alive Jihadist sympathizers were very happy over the death of the infidels.
Gellman believes that if all you really want is for your children to be happy you are either foolish
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Gellman says that marriage is not always pleasurable but it can make you happy because it is doing something hard over and over again. Gellman asks his readers, “did having children make you happy?” He says that in Judaism having children does God give the very first commandment, be fruitful and multiply. In Jewish religion raising children translates to, “the agony of raising