You're a Winner | Rabbi Naftali Horowitz

They're honest that get easier and perhaps even go away with time. I remember starting that and constantly falling behind. As I built up the habit, it became second nature to me that every single day I must learn. There are many inus that are like that and then there are those that never go away. They're just going to be part and parcel of the fabric of being alive and the environment in which we live. One of those inus is guarding our eyes. It's almost impossible not to walk down the street, not to drive anywhere or not to even conduct business online without coming across something that we're supposed to avert our eyes from. It's very easy to become despairful. To say, "What's the point? What am I accomplishing? I'm never going to win this battle anyway. This is going to be an ongoing struggle every single waking moment of my life. So why even try?" The Tanya tells us something very, very powerful. The Tanya tells us that there's two types of that has pleasure that has one is the pleasure of a sadic who takes the satan and vanquishes him once and for all the person is able to eradicate nanis from himself by reaching a tremendously lofty spiritual level he says and that's rare the most has is from the everyday benon. The person who gets up every day and faces the same exact struggle every single day. Every day he plays whack-a-ole with the nioness of life. As soon as he bangs one, another one pops up. As soon as he bangs that one and the other one pops up and the sut is just waiting for the person to throw up his hands and say, "I give up." What's the point? And the rea to see if the person keeps going day after day, struggle after struggle. This is not a battle we are aiming to win. We're winning each time we turn our heads. Every single time we've won a battle. And even if those battles keep coming, we have to know we have won the war.