Rabbi Zamir Cohen - Why Do the Body and Soul Conflict?

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Good evening and blessings. Today, we address a subject that concerns every normal person. Every human being living in this world experiences inner trials from time to time. The body pulls them in one direction, while their desires and spiritual soul pull them in another . They then find themselves confused. How can one overcome these natural inclinations? What we call the evil inclination, which uses our body to make us fall. King Solomon, in the verse we are about to see, gives us a direction for reflection through a parable and a moral lesson, as is his habit, to teach us how to think correctly and find the strength to follow the right path, the one everyone wishes to take. He says, "Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is rugged." Let us look first at the parable, then the moral. Good sense means the intelligence of a good person. In the parable, he speaks of human beings. In the moral, it is about the good inclination and the evil inclination. In the parable, he explains that when a person of good sense gives you good advice and you listen to it, it grants you favor. What is favor? As it is said, Noah found favor in the eyes of God. You find favor in everyone’s eyes. Your wife is happy with you. Your husband is happy with you. Socially, people enjoy your company. When you ask for something, people respond favorably because you are a pleasant person. You are loved. We see this in reality. Even a person whose outer appearance is not impressive, or even the opposite, can still be appreciated. This does not

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2. 3:40reflects daily reality. There are people who are not sincere, whose inside does not match their…
3. 7:46creator who can save him. Every human being therefore possesses a good natural inclination and a…
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6. 19:18a woman merited having all her sons become high priests. She was asked by what merit?…
7. 23:26character traits, the commandments between man and his neighbor—not taking revenge or bearing a grudge—as well…
8. 27:04fortunate is the teacher who trained him. See how pleasant his ways are and how righteous…
9. 31:10inclination, the Yetzer Hara; he becomes hard, difficult to live with, in conflict with others, and…
10. 34:46that he resisted? Of course, they were happy because their role was to put him to…

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