Yiddin need to understand how lucky we are to have been born into Yiddishkeit. Seriously. We do have ups and downs but we have to have emunah and bitachon in Hashem and that is what gets us through the hard times. It is unfortunate that our religion is taught negatively with the list of don’ts when it should be taught positively with the list of do’s. A Yid should be b’simcha and be happy to serve Hashem. When you are surrounded by the positives you don’t look at the lo tasseh’s as negatives you look at them as gedarim, boundaries and safeguards or how compassionate our religion is because it does not allow us to do certain things that will effect others or ourselves negatively.
For instance when I explain not eating milk and meat together to a goy, I say we are a compassionate people. How could we possibly cook a calf in the milk of its mother? I speak about how Hashem thought everything out to the Enth degree even to avoid such a minute occurrence.