TBC - Day 14 - 'Feed your enemy' - Rabbi Alon Anava | Atzmut.org

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so i heard from a few people that it's not easy for them to do chuva i'm not sure why but shiva is very difficult to do and uh mainly because every day there's a new struggle and yesterday you thought that you finished something and the next day will come another new struggle and the yetzera is not so happy with you doing chuva so he constantly will come to attack you now the sri is really the problem he's the force of resistance and he causes you to stop in your path of chuva by convincing you you're not going to make it it's too hard for you tempts you with all sorts of things and he's constantly in front of you and disturbs you so the bashem gives a very interesting explanation a very interesting approach on a verse that can be found in the book of michele chapter verse 21 and the verse says if your enemy is hungry feeding bread they continue they can the next part of the verse if he's thirsty give him water so i have to if my see my enemy hungry i have to give him food and the no approach is i'm not giving you nothing you can die die die from hunger if you're my enemy but the belgian says no no no the son of your enemy is your yetzer now when you see that he's hungry then he's gonna come and bother you he's gonna come and bother you with horrible thoughts he's gonna come and bother you with all sorts of desires and lusts he's gonna come and bother you when you the least want to deal with him in other words he's hungry he wants some some meat so if hit him don't ignore him or fight him if you ignore him he'll knock on the door stronger if you fight him he'll win you in most cases so just feed him put something in his mouth make him busy now what's the lechem it says give him food give him he doesn't say give food give him bread what's bread bread is the torah the the bread the bread is called the the food of the torah now there's two ways of looking at it i heard a different approach it says giving bread is make sure that you're eating everyday bread and you're washing for birkat amazon early in the morning like right after it's that really shuts the yetzer up for the most of the day but really the answer is that you it's hungry give him food what's the food feed him with tawa and the only way to overcome the torah is to bombard him with torah that's why the next of the verse says if he's thirsty give him water water is always torah so you see that you have problems with your yet celebrates bothering you settler so if you learn two hours a day torah and he still bothers you so bump it up to two and a half hours he still bothers you three hours he still bothers you four hours now it all depends how much you want him not to bother you some people say the hell with it let him just bother me i'll just cave to his demands but we're talking here about somebody who's interested in doing serious chihuahua so the only remedy and i told that in a different class to shut the yetzera is only with tawa you have a yetzera for something you you knock next to a class and grab a book of thielem and read three four five chapters of thilim that will soothe the the hunger the thirst the desire and try it it works it actually works when you have a strong desire now if you're already in the hand of the etc he's not going to even let you get there you're going to say yeah yeah yeah i'll read tomorrow let me just check this message here so but really when your enemy is hungry when he's bothering you if he's already wrapped you around then you almost can get out of it but you have to see it in early stages the only way is to feed him bread the bread is the torah the water is the torah as you just increase in learning torah that's the only way of getting out of it there's no other way there's no methods of weakening or or conquering the it's allah is only by giving him torah there's no other way i mean david miller was able to kill the etc with fasting but we're not david miller and you want to try go ahead you can try david was successful and if he he was able to do that maybe you can do that too but an easier way is just similar to one if you see the it's a lie it's bothering you learn another hour another hour and if you can't handle that or you don't have a torah class available don't go online online is not really a shiro torah because you'll see the suggested videos and when you're looking at the screen it's very easy to get distracted when you're opening a book the only thing that will distract you is falling asleep by the way which the itzela is great with that he knows how to put you to sleep very fast three verses and you're already down which is also a good week we'll go to sleep better it's better to sleep than to sin on the bottom line i'm feed him give him bread he's thirsty give him water this is the advice of melech and trust me the advice works very well [Music] you