The Fire of the Yetzer Hara | Shloime Daskal

Hello, hello, Vayimaen Yidden. You know, so many times we hear a statement of people, I have a Yetzer Hara, the biggest in the world. I can't, I can't. I have the biggest Yetzer Hara. Well, for those guys, maybe it's you, maybe it's me, let's sing a song. If this vile one assails you, draw it into the Beis Midrash. What does it mean? The Gemara says in Masechta Sukkah that if the Yetzer Hara comes to you, schlep him into shul. Come on, leave him outside. You know, we see all the papers in the shul, No smartphones. Don't bring them in. Why do you want to schlep him into shul? So the Yeshuas Moshe says like this, The Gemara says that ‘With all your heart’, with both your inclinations. You can't serve Hashem only with your Yetzer Tov. You need the Yetzer Hara to serve Hashem. So the Yeshuas Moshe says, The Yetzer Hara wants to bring you pleasure. That's what he wants. He wants a person to have pleasure. So bring him into shul, and show him what a page of Gemara means. Show the Yetzer Hara a pleasure, a Yiddishe pleasure. What I wanted to connect to this, we have a Gemara in Masechtas Bava Metzia. The Gemara says on 84a, R’ Yochanan went into the Jordan River to bathe himself. R’ Yochanan was a beautiful man. He was from the distinguished people of Yerushalayim. Beautiful. He didn't have a beard. He looked like a lady. And Reish Lakish, the holy Reish Lakish, then was before he did Teshuva, he was on the other side of the river and he saw a woman in the water. He got such a Yetzer Hara, he gave one jump and he jumped in front of R’ Yochanan. And he looks at R’ Yochanan and he's like, You're a man. Your beauty belongs to a lady. And R’ Yochanan tells him, And your Yetzer Hara belongs to Torah. Your strength belongs in Torah. And R’ Yochanan tells him even more, Reish Lakish, if you do Teshuva, you start learning, I have a sister. She's nicer than me. I'm going to give her to you for a wife. What's going on here? What kind of a talk is this? Did you talk to your sister? Did you ask her? Why did you give away your sister to someone who's now a robber? What did you see in Reish Lakish? The Maharsha says on the Pshat of the Gemara that R’ Yochanan saw the fire of the Yetzer Hara in Reish Lakish. Wow. With this Yetzer Hara, if you bring him into shul, you'll be the biggest. I'm sure my sister's going to want to marry you. A person sometimes feels, I have the biggest Yetzer Hara. It's not a curse. It's a gift. If you have a Yetzer Hara, if you want to delete one app and bring another Torah app, it's all the same Yetzer Hara. Bring him into shul. Bring him into the Torah of Hashem. Bring him into Leibedikeit, to Yiddishkeit. The Yetzer Hara can bring you to the biggest spiritual levels in the world. Show him what a page of Gemara means. Show him what a real pleasure means. Rabosai, Chazak. You, me, everyone with the biggest Yetzer Hara, we’re the luckiest. Stay strong out there. Love you.