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Fighting is Living | Rabbi Uren Reich
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By us having a Yetzer Hara and these nisyonons causes us to become so much greater than if these nisayons didn't exist. Learn more about Vayimaen and join our WhatsApp group here: https://www.vayimaen.org/ #vayimaen #shmiraseinayim #challenge
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Very often, when a person feels
an ongoing battle
from the Yetzer Hara,
a relentless struggle,
he sometimes feels so weary
from the struggle,
that he says: Hakadosh Baruch Hu,
I wish you would take
this Yetzer Hara away from me,
and I would be a person
who doesn't have to battle
every day with this Yetzer Hara.
I want to share with you, Rabosai,
a very interesting Gemara
in Erchin 32.
We all know that the Gemara says
that the Yetzer Hara of Avoda Zara,
which is unfathomable to us,
was incredibly powerful.
In fact, in Sefer Devarim
this is כמעט the main bulk
of what Moshe Rabeinu talks about,
is the draw of Yetzer Hara,
when Yidden come to Eretz Yisroel.
And what happened?
At the beginning of Bais Sheni,
Ezra, the אנשי כנסת הגדולה,
they broke the Yetzer Hara of Avoda Zara,
and the Gemara says,
based on a Pasuk in Nechemya,
that Hakadosh Baruch Hu
is upset with Yehoshua,
that hundreds of years earlier,
when he came into Eretz Yisroel,
and he could have
broken the Yetzer Hara,
he didn't do so.
Why didn't he do so?
Yehoshua felt, if I take away
the Yetzer Hara of Avoda Zara,
people will not become greater,
they’ll become smaller.
The Chazon Ish says
such telling words,
נטל היצר הוא נטל החיים.
A person who is bereft of a Yetzer Hara,
is bereft of life,
because without the Yetzer Hara to overcome,
to just be a zombie
who does without any temptation,
to be a spiritual robot,
for that, we could be a מלאך בשמי שמים.
It's overcoming the Yetzer Hara
that makes us greater.
Yehoshua said it's worth
having the temptation of Avoda Zara
so that Klal Yisroel,
if they overcome it,
will become greater.
I don't want to take away
this opportunity for growth.
The Gemara says,
It was a miscalculation,
because it was
an overwhelming Yetzer Hara
that they couldn't deal with.
But for us, the growth
that we can come to
if we struggle.
And as much as we're successful,
and as many times as we're successful,
we're growing in ways
that we can't even fathom.
And Hashem Yisborach
should give us the strength to realize
how much we gain
and how much we profit
by מלחמת היצר.