CS, that is a LAME explanation. We are sad because the Shechina is in Galus. However, we, being “mekabel yesurim beahava”, we accept everything with simcha, because that is Hashem’s will that we have yesurim. That doesn’t mean that we wallow in our sadness, just as when a woman gives birth. She has great pain and cries from it, but she is besimcha since she is bringing a new soul into the world.
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