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Feeding the Yetzer Hara

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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And the Gaon of Vilna explains that it's not that the angel is now going to make you make other sins. No, if you fell for lust like this guy did where he married a non-Jew and he just decided that she's going to become Jewish because he thinks she is, then guess what? You will now have the desire to make more of that same sin. Don't be surprised that he will defend intermarriage, which he does. Don't be surprised if he defends eating non-kosher because he eats non-kosher. All of the things, all of the sins that a person makes, he now desires them because each time he created a spiritual figure that now entices him to do more of it. It's like feeding the monster. You created a monster and the monster wants more and more and it's never satiated. That's in essence the common denominator among all heretics. They continue to harp on the war against the oral Torah because that is the one place they know that the truth is very, very clear.