{"id":14240,"date":"2025-03-31T19:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T23:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rabbishefagold.com\/?p=14240"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:07:46","slug":"choosing-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/choosing-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashrecha v\u2019tov lach<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness_Hebrew-e1743462912531.png\" alt=\"Graphic: Choosing Happiness in Hebrew\" width=\"269\" height=\"60\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14236\" \/><br \/>\nYou shall be happy and all will go well for you. (Psalm 128:2)<br \/>\n[Click (or tap) to see the entire Psalm 128 in Hebrew and English (JPS 1985).]<\/p>\n<p>When we walk in the ways of holiness and have reverence for the wholeness of Life, we will be blessed with the possibility of receiving the fruits of our labor and the manifestation of our dreams. Yet all the goodness of Life can only come to us when we choose to enjoy those gifts in humility and gratefulness. <\/p>\n<p>To hear the chants, use the audio players. To download a chant, right-click a note and save (or download) the linked MP3 file.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choosing Happiness (melody) &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness_melody.mp3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MP3Note.png\" alt=\"Right-click to download the MP3 file.\" width=\"40\" height=\"20\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2192\" \/><\/a> <!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14240-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness_melody.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness_melody.mp3\">https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness_melody.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/li>\n<li>Choosing Happiness (harmony) &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness_harmony.mp3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MP3Note.png\" alt=\"Right-click to download the MP3 file.\" width=\"40\" height=\"20\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2192\" \/><\/a> <audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14240-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness_harmony.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness_harmony.mp3\">https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness_harmony.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/li>\n<li>Choosing Happiness (mix) &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness_mix.mp3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MP3Note.png\" alt=\"Right-click to download the MP3 file.\" width=\"40\" height=\"20\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2192\" \/><\/a> <audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14240-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness_mix.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness_mix.mp3\">https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness_mix.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To download the PDF file for this chant, click <a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ChoosingHappiness.pdf\">Choosing Happiness<\/a> PDF. For the musical notation, click <a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChoosingHappiness_notation.pdf\">Choosing Happiness notation<\/a> PDF.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sefaria.org\/linker.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t<script>\n\t    sefaria.link();\n\t<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashrecha v\u2019tov lach You shall be happy and all will go well for you. (Psalm 128:2) [Click (or tap) to see the entire Psalm 128 in Hebrew and English (JPS 1985).] When we walk in the ways of holiness and have reverence for the wholeness of Life, we will be blessed with the possibility of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/choosing-happiness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Choosing Happiness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chants","category-psalms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15720,"href":"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240\/revisions\/15720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}