Don't lose your spiritual and good life for fantasies & laziness
Don't lose your spiritual and good life for fantasies & lazinessthat the evil inclination drives you crazy and are really just nonsense. Some Torah talks by the Rosh Yeshiva – Parashat Tzhave:
Regarding the verse (Leviticus 6:2) “Command Aaron and his sons,” the Rosh Yeshiva explains that in fact it is a call to be constantly stimulated and awakened in the service of God, because the evil inclination is always present and tries in every way to distance a person from the will of God.
Fantasies & Lazinessthat
The inclination operates on two fronts – on the one hand, it relaxes a person’s hands from doing the good that is incumbent upon him through laziness and countless excuses, and on the other hand, it pushes him away from doing the forbidden by using imaginary “arguments,” as if there are halachic sufficiency and ease here that allow him to commit a transgression. It even inclines a person’s mind to think that this is necessary for his health or soul, and that he has no choice.
But all of these are nothing more than false imaginations. As soon as a person awakens within himself the fear of God and puts his heart into truth, it becomes clear to him that this is not a difficult reality at all, but a momentary confusion, a kind of "drowning in a glass of water." The rebuke of common sense is enough to easily dispel the urge.
Therefore, the best advice is to be constantly vigilant and strengthen oneself with the fear of God, especially in times of trial. It is impossible for a person to give up his eternity for momentary pleasure, or distance himself from holiness for a fleeting pleasure.
And at the foundation of all coping – stands prayer, which is the main “tool of passion” of the Israeli man, as Rabbi Nachman of Breslov says in Likutei Moharan (Kama, Section 2).
And since the urge never lets up for a moment, so too does the obligation on a person to be constant in strengthening, fearing God, being vigilant, and praying – in order to withstand the burst.
And we conclude with the words of the great Rabbi R. Heshil zt”l: “There is no command but a tongue of incitement,” because when there is a command – the urge immediately comes to interfere. Hence the greatness of the one who commands and does, who is precisely the one who is incited by the urge – and therefore his reward is greater.
And may we always be worthy of rejecting the temptations of the urge, of being alert and prepared, and of walking before God in truth and purity.
*With the blessing of the Torah,*
Kal-tov Sela,
*Rebbi Shimon Yosef HaCohen Wiesenfeld*
*Rosh Yeshiva Breslov “Netzah Meir” Jerusalem*
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Prayer for the parasha
*Sovereign of all the worlds,*
Creator of my life and King of the world, You know all the secrets and all the illusions of the desire, how it lurks for every person from Israel and for every person who wants to draw close to Your true service, You know how much strength and effort it invests to confuse his mind and distance him from Your true service.
O Lord, Father of mercies, have mercy on us with Your great grace and goodness, and give us strength and power to always rise up against the temptations of the evil desire and its many tricks, which lurk for us in every corner and at every hour, to introduce laziness, excuses, and much confusion into our hearts, just to make us forget You and Your pure will and the Torah of truth and Your simple and pleasant commandments.
Please, merciful and gracious, grant us a true, internal, corrected and deep fear of God in our hearts, which will always burn in our hearts like a holy flame, so that we will not be afraid or discouraged by any trial or confusion, and we will be worthy to reject every false imagination and truly understand that the entire power of the instinct is only vain and empty, and there is no reality in it at all.
Grant us to feel in our hearts that everything is imagination and fantasy – that there is no reality of coercion or necessity to do against Your will, just the opposite – we always have a choice, and we ask that You help us choose goodness, choose the truth, choose You and Your holy Torah, and not lust and vulgarity and evil habits…
And grant us the strength to be renewed every day with the urgency and desire to serve You, and that we may be like a vessel in Your blessed hand, fighting for holiness and purity, for the holy soul You have given us, so that we may never lose our eternity for temporary and fleeting pleasures.
O Lord, full of mercy, strengthen us always in prayer, that we may remember and understand that all our strength – only from You, and that the main source of our strength and endurance in trials – is through speaking the truth and praying with a broken heart, that we may stand before You as poor people at the door and ask: “Please save me from the evil inclination and the cult of Delia.”
Help us and save us, and fulfill for us the scripture that says: “Command Aaron” – a language of incitement, that we may merit to awaken and strive with all our might to keep Your commandments in truth and with complete faith, and that we may merit to be among those who command and do, who at all times overcome the instigator and the rejecter.
And may You grant us an alert heart, a listening ear, and a right spirit – that we may know at all times what we should do and how to act in truth, and may we be worthy to completely subdue our desires through joy, doing the commandments of Your Torah. Please accept our prayers with mercy and redeem us from our exile in these days that are days of redemption from the Egyptian exile for the people of Israel and for all who come and want to draw close to Your true work. Give us the strength to return to You with a whole heart all the days of our lives.
Here you can ask for private things that you need in order to merit your complete redemption, each according to his own needs at home, at work, with your husband, with your children… Redemption will speak at the door, just pray… and the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, will do as He wills for His followers.
*Amen, may it will be.*
*For those who wish to be privileged to give the charity mitzvah of "Kamcha De Peshacha"* to the honest poor, who devote their whole days to Torah and have needy families – you can make a donation at the following links:
*Thank you, Rabbi Amiel*
