We talked last recording about the directive to amp up our joy in the month of adar. And we talked about how this implies that we all have a baseline of happiness to be able to do this. We also asked whether a person can be commanded to feel a certain way. And if so, are those feelings really authentic? These questions got me thinking about something else: Is “mishenichnas Adar Marbim B’simcha” in a sense our version, the Jewish version of the platitudes and cliches we see all over about being happy.