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The Baal Shem Tov would say that you can go out of your situations of pain and suffering through simcha, through happiness. You can't get out of the pain and the suffering without first changing your state of mind.

This is what we find when the different terminologies of redemption are mentioned. We know that it says, "And then I will take you out of Egypt, and then I'm going to save you." So first, we have to take you out and then save. Why doesn't it say that you first save and then take the person out of Egypt?

And the answer is because the way that a person gets out of the messed up situation that they're in is first by understanding the difference between pain and suffering. Pain is not a choice. A person has pain, but it's his choice of suffering. A person doesn't have to suffer from any pain that they go through. Suffering is a state of mind.

Once you stop the suffering, once you stop your interpretation of this pain, then you're able to deal with the pain and solve it. But as long as you are still in the suffering, you can't solve the pain.

Every difficult situation a person is in, he has to ask himself: There's a situation that I'm in, but then there's also my interpretation of it. There's how I explain it, how I internalize it, how I perceive it. And sometimes we make the situation and our interpretation of it worse than it is. We might take it and make it personal. We might take it and make it permanent. We might take it and make it pervasive. We can make it worse than it is.

That's your choice if you want to be optimistic or pessimistic. But if you're going to change the way that you look at the situation, then you could solve the problem.

That's why it says, "And then..." First, I'm going to take them out of their mindset, because I can't save them if I don't take them first out of their mindset. Because a person could be in Egypt in slavery, and that's a reality. But the idea that you're in exile is your explanation of your reality.

So Hashem has to first help you get out of the mindset, and then He can help you get out of the state of pain. That's what the verse teaches: You will go out only through changing the mindset to a happy mindset.

So when we have something we want to change, we want to solve a problem that we have, we need to ask ourselves: How much of the problem is reality, is what it is, and how much of the problem is our explanation of it, our interpretation of it? And when we change our interpretation of the problem, then Hashem will help us stop the pain as well.