Habit Against the Yetzer Hara: How Small Steps Change Your Life | Rabbi Blum Anchel

Shalom. Everyone knows that Hashem would like us to be good Jews. And he gave us tools and methods how to improve ourselves. He gave us the Torah, which is helps us straighten out the eight Sahara. He gave us also the ability to say Shema. That also helps against the eight Sahara. But there's one tool that he gave us that has a bad reputation. And that tool is habit. And the reason it has a bad reputation is because people misuse it. They get into bad habits. >> [music] >> But of course, we could always use it to do good habits. For instance, if you want to dive in with a minion every morning, so sometimes it's frightening. You say, "How am I going to do my whole life every day? I'm going to get up to go to a minion." You don't have to think of that way. Just say, "I'll do it for a few days." And guess what? After a few days, it'll become a good habit and it won't be so difficult anymore. Same thing but let's say you want to read to him every day. Or you want to learn learn the ethical swaran. You want to put away 10 or 15 minutes. So if you're going to think, "How am I going to do this all the time?" it might seem difficult. But you don't have to do it a few times and after that it'll be it'll be second nature to you. So the since we have these the ability to do this, we should definitely take advantage of it. Now of course, in the beginning it's difficult. There's a rule call us call us kosher. It's all beginnings are difficult. But if you make it through one, two, three, after that, it's going to be very easy. And in that the hood that we try our best using habits as a tool against the eight Sahara to be successful and Hashem should send all of us the full shalom, parnassah tova, shalom bayit, nachas, slacha belimud, and everything that we need and the whole klal Yisrael should be safe. Thank you.