Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

So if you're looking for something to compliment, it means you're looking for something that is positive and you will likely find that which is positive.

Show gratitude.

Again, same idea that you're looking for something to be grateful for.

And when you show gratitude to people and you thank them.

You reach out to them, you know, and you compliment them and you thank them.

So those are things that bring about happiness.

There is also a certain sense of happiness that a person accomplishes when they feel that they're together with HaKadosh Baruch Hu, when they feel that they have a relationship with Rabbanu Shalalam.

I believe very strongly that tefillah, in the most genuine sense, brings a person a certain sense of happiness.

Not like the I'm doing cartwheels and making funny jokes kind of happiness, but a sense of serenity.

comfort, a sense of being comfortable in my own skin, and that is ultimately happiness.

It also helps if a person could figure out what their kohos are, what they're best suited for, and start working toward dedicating the majority of their time toward doing those things that they're best suited for, that they can contribute most

that they believe HaKadosh Baruch Hu put them in this world to do.

That, I think, is also a very critical component of happiness.

Obviously, there's so much to say about this.

This could be, you know, there should probably be a full semester course in college about how to be happy, and particularly from a Torah perspective.

But, okay, we'll suffice at that for now.

Question number two is much more halachic, a Cheshon Mishpat question.

If a car is parked illegally on the sidewalk of a supermarket parking lot and a shopper accidentally scratches it while pushing a shopping cart to his own car, is the shopper responsible to pay for the damage?

Does the car's illegal placement affect liability?

So it's not about legal or illegal, it's really about if someone is negligent with their own stuff, and then their stuff gets damaged by an adam ha-mazik, so is the adam ha-mazik, when we say adam will be olam, so is the adam ha-mazik going to be chayiv?