Elevating the Yetzer Hara

What's a Yom Kippur idea that has completely changed your brain chemistry on the day? >> It completely destroyed my brain open and the >> No, destroyed. Yeah, refused. One of the things that we do on Yom Kippur is that we do a seder Lashon hara seder lashon hara or whatever. >> Lashon hara. >> Yeah. One thing for like lashon hara and then we we sacrifice something for the yetzer hara basically. It's like a very weird thing. >> The whole thing is very interesting. >> I don't know. I might be completely wrong, but I think that the idea is that on Yom Kippur we don't just ask forgiveness. We elevate all the parts of ourselves that are bad carbon. We give the part of us that might be the ugliest parts of ourselves [music] and we sacrifice that as well obviously to God. But we we bring out that there's not like the good part of me and on Yom Kippur I'm just saying like al cheit and then like the bad part of me has to get like hidden. >> Mhm. >> It's like both things are a carbon. They're both a sacrifice. They're both something that can become elevated in the service of God. Both of those things are actually ratzon Hashem. They're the service of God. Just the way that we're dealing with it is a very interesting thing. We're creating some sort of interesting sacrifice. >> Mhm. >> That's corresponding to the negative side of ourselves. >> Yeah. >> So it's not just about illuminating the good, but it's also about revealing that everything that we are even in our {quote} unquote bad is actually also rooted and wants godly things. >> Good. >> Beautiful. >> In Yiddishkeit Hashem created the human with a yetzer hara to give us the ability to choose good, right? Meaning it's part of the design and we should embrace that side of ourselves always because it's part of >> The secret is >> Our yetzer hara is the fuel that makes us do good.