Fighting is Living | Rabbi Uren Reich

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The opening of this shiur, in Vayimaen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Very often, when a person feels an ongoing battle from the Yetzer Hara, a relentless struggle, he sometimes feels so weary from the struggle, that he says: Hakadosh Baruch Hu, I wish you would take this Yetzer Hara away from me, and I would be a person who doesn't have to battle every day with this Yetzer Hara. I want to share with you, Rabosai, a very interesting Gemara in Erchin 32. We all know that the Gemara says that the Yetzer Hara of Avoda Zara, which is unfathomable to us, was incredibly powerful. In fact, in Sefer Devarim this is כמעט the main bulk of what Moshe Rabeinu talks about, is the draw of Yetzer Hara, when Yidden come to Eretz Yisroel. And what happened? At the beginning of Bais Sheni, Ezra, the אנשי כנסת הגדולה, they broke the Yetzer Hara of Avoda Zara, and the Gemara says, based on a Pasuk in Nechemya, that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is upset with Yehoshua, that hundreds of years earlier, when he came into Eretz Yisroel, and he could have broken the Yetzer Hara, he didn't do so. Why didn't he do so?

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1. 0:04Very often, when a person feels an ongoing battle from the Yetzer Hara, a relentless struggle,…
2. 0:35In fact, in Sefer Devarim this is כמעט the main bulk of what Moshe Rabeinu talks…
3. 1:06Yehoshua felt, if I take away the Yetzer Hara of Avoda Zara, people will not become…
4. 1:36Yehoshua said it's worth having the temptation of Avoda Zara so that Klal Yisroel, if they…
5. 2:08how much we gain and how much we profit by מלחמת היצר.…

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