Our Wants vs Hashem's Will - Rabbi Shmuel Silber

there is an incredible plastic at the end of parsha's kid ocean the Torah says this is in paragraph chapter 20 verse 26 this be holy unto me who says because I Hashem your God am Holy and I've separated you from the Nations to be mine to be mine to be for me and of course this is a theme of sentiment that's echoed throughout the parashah of being kadusha being holy Rashi picks up on the idea of what does it mean Leo's Lee to be mine and Rashi says something amazing I'm going to quote you Rashi says teaches us how do you know that a person shouldn't say now if she cuts up um a person shouldn't say you know what I have no desire to eat hazar no desire to consume pork I have no desire for non-kosher items or I have no desire to wear shortness in other words a person shouldn't say I have no desire for an Aveda rather what should a person he says what's the higher level than a person should say I want the khazer I want the shackness I want the illicit relationships I want the prohibited things but what can I do who told me I'm not allowed to have it says Rashi that's the meaning be holy your mind hashan says so do it for me do it for me don't Don't abstain because you don't want it because you're not enticed by it but be enticed want it but find the strength to resist because you belong to me who says and you know whenever I read this Rashi I always think to myself it sounds so incredibly counter-intuitive all right think about this if you ask the person what's the higher level tawan transit to want to consume you know a Big Mac to want to consume a cheeseburger to want it but to resist it or to not even want it at all I would have thought the higher level is to not want it at all to be the kind of person that doesn't even have that desire to be that person who had doesn't doesn't have that want think about this even on a different level we have so many prohibitions regarding morality or or prohibitions against immorality so what's the higher level to say I want those things so badly but Hashem says I can't have it or to say you know what I don't even have that desired transcend so I always thought that the higher level is to say I don't want the cancer I don't want the cheeseburger I don't even want the immorality emergency no it's not true but Elizabeth says it's not true the higher level is to say I want it I wanted to who doesn't want a good cheeseburger who doesn't want immorality I want it but what can I do at kodisfaro who told me I can't have it he seemed sometimes the most important thing is to recognize our own humanity and to recognize that of course we're going to want things that we're not allowed to have that's human nature the forbidden fruit is always sweeter but I tell someone they can't have it and sell them I never wanted it before my life but suddenly I can't have it subtle now I want it but that struggle is normal that struggle is commonplace to have to fight against yourself you see often we think that when we encounter internal struggle there's something wrong with us there's something broken if I was really a complete person I wouldn't even have this struggle it's not true I'm a person therefore I have the struggle I mean being therefore I have the struggle the highest level is not to have the struggle the highest level of Pinnacle of spiritual accomplishment is to have the struggle but then to find the inner strength to overcome it it's not the highest level is not to not want the cheeseburger do not to not want the immorality it's to want it but to find the strength to overcome those wants those urges because I belong to akodishbargo Pinnacle of accomplishment is not the avoidance of the struggle the Pinnacle of human accomplishment is to engage the struggle and to feel enough of a connection to akadeshbarahu to overcome it wishing everyone a wonderful day