The Vayimaen Recipe for Life | Rabbi Elya Brudny

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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.

We are all experiencing already through the entire winter, a long, hard, seemingly endless war, בעוונותינו הרבים, in Eretz Yisroel, with repercussions all over the world. It’s an עת מלחמה, like Koheles says, עת מלחמה, time of war. But we always have to remember that the Chovos HaLevavos says about a warrior that returned from a war as a victor, and אם ירצה השם, the Jewish armies are going to be victorious בקרוב, but a פרוש אחד, a חכם אחד told him, You're coming back as if you won the war. The war that you won that's the מלחמה הקטנה. The battlefield is the small war. But now get ready for the big war, the מלחמת היצר. That's the real war and that's the big war. The pasuk says, Every human being, every Kehillah, every member in Klal Yisroel, is always at war.

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1. 0:05We are all experiencing already through the entire winter, a long, hard, seemingly endless war, בעוונותינו…
2. 0:35but a פרוש אחד, a חכם אחד told him, You're coming back as if you won…
3. 1:07We're born with a Yetzer Hara. By our Bar Mitzvah, we get the help from a…
4. 1:38because he was the one for all the ages that made the וימאן. He ran away…
5. 2:11A No. לא. But it has to be a real לא. The Ko’ach of מיאון, of…
6. 2:41or sitting at home or sitting in Yeshiva, Hashem is there with you. חס ושלום, if…
7. 3:11were zoche to tremendous Brachos, both ברוחניות and בגשמיות.…

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