A Lust Broken Is Sweet To The Soul (Proverbs 13:19)

HaMelech says in Proverbs chapter 13 verse 19, that lust broken is sweet to the soul, but turning away from sin, turning away from evil, is an abomination to fools. The Gaon of Vilna says that there is a certain pleasure, a certain pleasure that a person gets by overcoming the issues of immorality. When a person hears an issue in a movie that he's not allowed to waste seed, that she's not allowed to be modest, and it's hard for her to keep that. She likes to be modest. She likes the attention. He likes to waste seed. He gets pleasure out of it, but now he knows that it's wrong. He knows that he's not allowed to look there. He knows that he's not allowed to touch there. She knows she's not allowed to be with him. He knows he's not allowed to be with her. And they say, "You know what? If I do it, I'm going to get punished severely. I'm going to lose this world and the next world. I have to overcome this sin." But it's hard. It's hard not to look. It's hard not to touch. It's hard not to do all these things that get you attention. But the Gaon of Vilna says in the name of HaMelech, "When a person overcomes it each and every single time, he was going to look, but he doesn't. He was going to touch, but he doesn't. She was going to do it, but she doesn't. After they overcome that test, there's a certain spiritual pleasure that person gets. Not while they're going through the fire. When they're going through the fire, it's painful. It's painful. He wants to rip the hair out of his head. She wants to lose her mind. She needs the attention. He needs this. He needs that. But when you finally overcome it, HaMelech says, "You're going to get a certain spiritual pleasure out of it." But be careful. WHY? BECAUSE THE FOOL THAT YOU HAVE NEXT TO YOU, your friend, your this, your that, those people around you that are not doing chuvah, whether they are on the internet, or they're your peers in school, or in your community, those people, those fools that are not doing chuvah, that are still walking around in modesty, that are still wasting seed, that are still committing immorality, TO THEM, YOUR CHUVAH IS AN ABOMINATION. YOUR CHUVAH IS AN ABOMINATION. AND RASHI RASHI SAYS, WHY IS IT AN ABOMINATION? WHY IS CHUVAH an abomination to somebody that does not do chuvah? Because chuvah tells them that not only did you change, chuvah tells them that he needs to change. Chuvah tells them not only that you change, chuvah chuvah tells them that they need to change. Your modesty reminds them that they need to do chuvah. Your protecting your eyes, and protecting your speech, and telling them not to curse, and telling them to go to pray, those things are reminding them that they need to do chuvah, and therefore, since they're not willing, it's considered abominable what you're doing. They hate it. They hate your chuvah. That's why you have to run away from them. Run away from those people. Why? Because eventually, one of two things will happen to those people. Either they'll do chuvah eventually, be'ezrat Hashem, or they'll continue falling for worse and worse crimes, such as chas v'shalom what we've mentioned over the last two shiurim, which is the abominable acts that are mentioned in parshat Acharei Mot and parshat Kedoshim. The worst things in the world, incest, homosexuality, bestiality, adultery, all of the worst THINGS THAT EVERYONE KNOWS IS WRONG, INCLUDING THEM, will suddenly become acceptable behavior by those people that continue to reject the truth, so much so that they call it abominable because they see you do it and they don't want to do it. They will continue falling to worse and worse crimes that even if they themselves saw themselves in the future, they would be disgusted by themselves. But by the time they get to that point, it would already be too far. It would already be too far. Surely, as long as a person is still alive, they could always do teshuvah. But one of the gates, one of the gates, one of the things that shuts the gate of teshuvah in a person's face, meaning that a person has a right to do teshuvah, has ability to do teshuvah, but one of the things that makes it much, much more difficult to do teshuvah is when they accuse kosher people, needless to say, when they make fun of chachamim, when they go against chachamim, then Hakadosh Baruch Hu shuts off the door of teshuvah in their face and say, "Now you can do teshuvah, but you have to break the door down. You can't do teshuvah normally." For those people that have started doing teshuvah, never get Never get too arrogant. Never think for a moment that you are better than anybody, even a person that hasn't done teshuvah. Why? Because there are plenty of people that have done teshuvah and fell right back. Just in the last 48 hours, unfortunately, discovered a person that I know from a long time ago, did teshuvah 30 years ago, just left his entire family. 30 years they did teshuvah already. 30 years, old family's already a grandfather already right now. Less than he left his entire family for what? For some woman that's old enough to be the mother of his wife. The mother of his wife. He left his wife, beautiful wife, kids, everything for some old lady. Why? Yetzer Yetzer Yetzer Hara. Don't ever feel too comfortable with where you are. You have to continuously go higher, continuously work harder, continuously strive to be better. Don't think that what you're doing is, "Oh, I'm better than everybody else." Needless to say, if you see other people doing better than you, aspire to be like them. Don't judge them. Don't think that they were bad because you're not as good or so on. Always try to do better. Always try to do better. You failed, try again. You failed, try again and again and again and again. Needless to say, if you want to get anywhere good in your life, make sure you have some type of da'at Torah, some type of that's directing you in which way to go, whether it's at work or it's marriage or it's this or it's that. Anything that you're doing, you need to have da'at Torah with you because you can't do it by yourself. You can't do it by yourself. Now, if you're one of those people that is suspecting that all of the rabbis want something from you, I can assure you, no one wants anything from you because anything that you give, it's your benefit, not theirs. It's your benefit. Reality is the Torah is an instruction set. It's an instruction set that takes a lifetime to understand, a lifetime to know what to do with it. What the Hakhamim do for us is they save us an entire lifetime of sins by simply giving us the direction now. The more we learn, the more we apply, the better we will be for ourselves. And the price for that is endless. Price for that is priceless. The price for that is something that if we understood what we get out of it as a result, we would literally give everything we have for it. >> [screaming]