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and so the teachers sages teach that
when we overcome our Yates arhara right
our evil inclination in order to fulfill
a commandment to perform a Mitzvah to
serve Hashem well in his eyes
it's worth a thousand meets votes that
we do without any resistance from the
evil inclination
right overcoming our lower base impulses
and inclinations to serve Hashem is more
valuable than any deed we commit in
which the evil inclination is is is not
warring against us when we're facing an
evil inclination that's using every
manipulative argument in the book
right when we're battling
that is playing every deceitful
seductive trick that it's amassed over
the past 5 000 plus years
when we're contending with these
challenges these wars that are happening
within us and we overcome them
well that's what life is all about
that's what makes life worth living
that's the whole reason we're here
serving Hashem in such a in such a true
and deep way that is the secret to true
happiness or that is the secret that
results in in true happiness you know if
biederman actually shared a perspective
that really strengthened me and I think
May strengthen a lot of you as well and
he explained that sometimes people who
are older can become full of regrets
that they didn't devote their lives to
their services Hashem when they were
younger that they didn't know that they
weren't exposed to it that they didn't
do all this stuff when they were younger
they regret that they're coming to this
now and they feel like it's too late
and that uh they feel like in Truth at
this stage of their life it really may
not matter
have any of you ever experienced the
thought that even resembles that
I know that I have but I'm like oh I
just wish I knew it before I wish
but the good news
the good news I'm going to share the
good news with you
the good news is that in hashem's eyes
the opposite is true the opposite is
true is opposite is true because the
older we get the harder it is to change
right we all know this you're right you
can't teach an old dog new tricks
there's a reason that such a famous say
it I don't think that there's any debate
that it's a hundred times harder to
change when you're older and so because
it's so much harder
the reward one gets for successfully
changing when you're older is a hundred
times more
than successfully changing when you were
young and it was so much easier
