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War Tactics | Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Katz
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When you fight a war,
we learn from Israel
excellent war tactics.
And it's going to teach us how to fight,
to be Misgaber on the Yetzer Hara.
When Israel went to war
against Hezbollah and Iran,
they found out
where are their missiles,
and they went
and they exploded their missiles.
They found out who are
the people who run the war,
and they went and they killed them.
Because when you know
what the offensive is,
where the enemy's going out to you,
and you get them over there,
you win the war.
And it's a big lesson
for us when we go
to מלחמת היצר in Shmiras Einayim.
We have to know,
Where is he sending the missiles?
Where is he fighting the battle?
So many of us think,
Well, it's definitely the smartphone.
And it happens to be a very big Nisayon.
But today, I'm a yungerman,
I don't have a smartphone,
but I still have Nisyonos
with Shmiras Einayim
and we all do.
Nowadays, when we walk in the street,
we have Nisyonos.
We have to work on our eyes.
I used to think I was safe
in a Sefarim store.
You know, in a Sefarim store,
it's a Judaic center.
We're faced with much more
Nisyonos in day-to-day life,
even in the most holy places,
like Yerushalayim עיר הקודש.
We go to the Kosel,
we could also have Nisyonos.
Everywhere we go, there are Nisyonos.
But when we're aware of this
and we think about it,
with a little bit of thought,
you could be Misgaber on it.
An interesting Eitza,
Distraction.
Nowadays, I see people walking around
with things in their ear all the time.
They're talking on the phone,
they're doing something.
When you walk in the street,
listen to a Shiur, talk on the phone.
If you don't want to
put something in your ear,
think about what you’re eating for supper.
Keep yourself thinking
while you're walking.
You know the areas where there are sights
that are very hard for you to be Misgaber,
try to avoid it.
Try to look,
Where's the missiles of the Yetzer Hara?
Where is he shooting at you?
And in those places, protect yourself.
One more point,
We think it's so hard to turn away.
The Steipler, in קריינא דאגרתא,
in אגרת ט”ו, says a big Yesod.
He says: In the beginning,
when you start Shmiras Einayim,
it's very hard,
but the more you do it,
the easier it becomes.
When Israel fights Hamas,
it can't destroy them in one shot.
What it does is, it weakens.
It weakens a little bit here,
in this city, that city, that city.
In Shmiras Einayim, you can't go 360,
but every time you control
yourself and you don't look,
you’re weakening the power
of the Yetzer inside of you.
I'm not saying it's going
to go away, the Nisayon.
We're still going to have Nisyonos.
But the more we are aware,
the more we try,
the more we keep on fighting,
the easier we’ll be able
to overcome our enemy.
And Hashem will give us Siyata D’shmaya
to rise above the Nisyonos,
to win these wars,
and that’ll be the Segulah,
when we win our מלחמות היצר,
that's the Segulah that we should win
the war against all
the enemies in the world,
and we should be Zoche to Moshiach,
speedily in our days.