joyfulness
noun
In Jewish tradition
In the Torah it is the cheerful spirit with which God wants to be served.
Interpretation. Tradition teaches that serving God with joy is a duty. The Torah warns that the people suffered because they lacked joy even when they had plenty.
Meaning
The feeling of being joyful and happy. tree →
Examples
- because thou didst not serve the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; (Torah DEU.28.47, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «joyfulness» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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