Samach Tisamach 5657 – Class 45

Page 48- 9. הרכבה דשכל ושמחה. This Joy is not the highest and most real kind of Joy, because it is qualified (and also qualifies) -מורכב- by intellect. Whenever two things are grafted together they better each other but also diminish what each one would be when by itself. In this case the Sechel is made less by the Simcha and (more importantly) the Simcha is made less by the Sechel. Pure Simcha is, therefore, something else altogether.