You Are Not Alone | Rabbi Elazar Meisels

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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.

Shortly before leaving this world, Mr. Schwartz called his family together, handed them a bundle of branches tied together, and challenged them. Let me see if you can break this bundle. Of course, none of them could. Now untie it, said Mr. Schwartz, and try to break each branch one by one. And this time they snapped like twigs. You see, said Mr. Schwartz, when you stick together, you're unbreakable. When you try to go it alone, you're defenseless. The Tshu Ora Amor cites this story on the possuk Ki Seitzei Machaneh Al Oyvecha, when you go out to battle Al Oyvecha with your enemy, Teitzei Machaneh, go out with an encampment. Go out with a group. Never face the enemy alone. Always do it in a group. The Tshu Ora Amor says, who is the real enemy? That is the yetzer hara. The yetzer hara knows that when you're alone, you're an easy prey. But when you stick with the group, he's harmless. He can't do

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