Run Away from Bad Desires - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

the word razon which means desire or yearning or want has the same root as the word rats to run because you know when you want something it's as if you're running to go get it whereas if there's something that you have no ruts on for you know you're supposed to do it it's part of the repertoire of being a good jew a good person you don't really want it you want to want it but you don't really want it you're doing it because you have to do it it's the expectations of others to do it you're conforming to social pressures to do it you're conforming to your fear or your concern or what you think is pressure from god to do it so then you're not running to do it you're slowly walking procrastinating schlepping lazily getting there and you're turning it into hummus you're turning it into leaven you're undermining it whereas if you develop a red zone a yearning a want a desire a drive the razon that yearning alone is like rats it gets you there so quickly