Knocking out the Yetzer Hara | Rabbi Yechiel Spero

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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.

Vayimaen. What an organization. What an incredible accomplishment. 40,000 people or more every day watching a video like this one, finding the strength to be able to fight one more day against the Yetzer Hara. Not surprisingly, Vayimaen gets it’s Siyata D’Shmaya from the one who inspired it all, Mr. Avi Shulman. And he called himself Mr. because he was, oh, so humble. Was a mentor to Gedolim. He was someone who was so incredibly wise, so practical, so down to earth, so incredibly encouraging. I was zoche, Baruch Hashem, to consider him a mentor of mine. He was somebody who taught me and continues to teach me, עד היום הזה. Today is his Yahrzeit. And in that zechus, in the zechus of everything he's done, I'd like to share one of his teachings. In one of his books, and he wrote many books,

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1. 0:03Vayimaen. What an organization. What an incredible accomplishment. 40,000 people or more every day watching a…
2. 0:33He was someone who was so incredibly wise, so practical, so down to earth, so incredibly…
3. 1:04he writes a beautiful idea. The Yetzer Hara, if we can imagine it doing so, writes…
4. 1:36Hashem can look at the person that is struggling, and he realizes and he appreciates that…
5. 2:06In the beginning, I hit you a little bit and you hit me back a little…
6. 2:36So good luck on your journey. Zei Gezunt. That's the letter that Avi Shulman wrote. He…
7. 3:07We hope we're making you proud and we look forward to knocking out the Yetzer Hara…

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