Never Lay Down the Whip - Rabbi Joey Dayon

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[music] There are two very famous circus entertainers. Their name was Siegfried and Roy, and they performed with wild animals, lions and tigers, for many years, over 40 years. In 2003, about 20 years ago, Roy was ferociously attacked by one of the tigers in the middle of his performance, and everybody was shocked. And all the experts were wondering what went wrong that suddenly he was attacked. For 40 years, he's in a cage with these wild animals, and cage with these wild animals, and nothing happened. And the experts determined that in order to be a lion tamer, you need to crack that whip. If you see that lion or tiger move his paw a quarter of a centimeter, you have to remind them, "Don't move." And Roy got a little too comfortable over the last few months, and that's why he was attacked. One of my rebbeim said when I was younger, when the Anshei Knesses HaGedolah prayed that the yetzer hara for arayos should be eliminated, they saw the image of a lion leave the Kodesh HaKodashim. This yetzer hara for arayos

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1. 0:00[music] There are two very famous circus entertainers. Their name was Siegfried and Roy, and they…
2. 0:31cage with these wild animals, and nothing happened. And the experts determined that in order to…
3. 1:01HaKodashim. This yetzer hara for arayos is referred to as a lion, and he said, "If…
4. 1:32street, and the yetzer hara comes in front of us, and we crack that whip, and…
5. 2:02not looking. I'm not looking no matter what. Whatever gets in our comes in front of…

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