WITH OUT WATER YOU CANT PUT OUT FIRE

If there's no water, you can't put out fire"

One member who had broken free from the "shmutz" wrote us something beautiful and true:

 

I need Kedusha to counteract Tumah. I need it regularly, and it will replace filthy thoughts with powerful desires to grow in a positive way. I know it works, I've experienced it and tasted the exhilarating sweetness and freedom that living "confined" to the guidelines of Torah truly represents. I've seen a lot of information on Jewish websites describing the struggle between the yetzer tov and the yetzer hora but they don't really describe a substitute for being filled with filth. If there's no water, it's hard to put out fire - even if you know it burns.

 

Make sure to learn Torah every day. Some ideas:

 

- There's nothing like a Daf Yomi Shiur. Gemara is "Sechel Hayashar - straight thinking" and when a person is thinking straight and G-dly, the Yetzer Hara can't get a grip on him.

 

- Infuse your soul with holiness and read a few minutes of Zohar once in a while. Even if you don't understand it, your soul will feel the holiness and it will cleanse you out. Zohar is known to be a special Segulah to save one from the grasp of the Yetzer Hara.

 

- For a little taste of the entire spectrum of the Torah, read each day's Chok Le'yisrael for a little Torah, Nevi'im, Kesuvim, Mishnayos, Talmud and Zohar. All together, it's the perfect potion to keep the Yetzer Hara far away!

MAKE IT DISGUSTING IN YOUR EYES

Make it Disgusting in your Eyes

The Medrash says that Pinchas drove his spear straight through the genitals of Zimri and Kuzbi the Midyanite, as they were sinning together. Then G-d gave Pinchas divine strength and he was able to lift both of their their dead bodies up out of the tent, while still on the spear, for all to see that they had been killed for their sins.

The Holy Ohr Hachaim Hakodesh writes, that through doing this, Pinchas made the sin of illicit relations look disgusting in the eyes of the Yidden and thereby caused a tremendous Kiddush Hashem.

On a similar note, the Ohr Hachayim writes as well in another place, that after the Midyanites brought the Jews to sin in illicit relations, G-d commanded the Jews "Tzror es Hamidyanim Ve'hikesem Osam" - meaning, "Make the Midyanim hated in your eyes and destroy everything of theirs". So the Ohr Hachayim asks, why do we need to hate them and destroy everything, why not be able to benefit at least from the booty of the enemy? Answers the ohr Hachayim, that when it comes to immoral sexual conduct (that the Midyanites caused the Jews to sin in), the only way for the Jews to receive G-d's forgiveness and atone properly would be if they turn their hearts to hate these sins, and destroy all that is related to it. For as long as the lust of the sin remains alive in a Jew's heart, he cannot properly atone for sins of this nature. Instead, he must try to first arouse a disgust and hatred of these sins in his heart - and only then he can achieve a true Teshuvah.

SIZ DOCH ALTZ HVEL HAVLEM AEN UD MELVADO

TO KILL THE YH

THE JOB IS TO FIND THE YH AND KNOCK HIM OUT ,NEVER LET HIM WIN TRY TO EREASE HIM FROM THIS WORLD ,DONT LISTEN TO HIM NEVER

TO BRING A KORBAN TWICE A DAY

We are commanded to bring the Korban Tamid in the Beis Hamikdash twice a day. The Torah uses the following words; "zeh ha'ishe asher takrivu la'hashem - this is the fire that you should sacrifice to G-d". And it says "Olas Tamid Ho'asuyah Behar Sinai, lerei'ach nicho'ach ishe la'hashem - the Olah Tamid sacrifice that was made on Har Sinai, for a pleasing fragnance, a fire for G-d". The word "ishe",which is used by the Torah, also means "woman". It could be that the Torah is hinting to us that even when we don't have the Beis Hamikdash any more, we can still bring daily sacrifices to G-d by giving up our desire for women. Every time we say 'No' to our Yetzer hara and we don't stray after our eyes, this is a sacrifice that is worthy of having been given at Har Sinai (like the Pasuk says above) - where the Torah itself was given to us, and it is a pleasing fragrance and a fire for G-d.

Indeed, it is called a Korbon Tamid, meaning "the always sacrifice" - perhaps because - always - even after the Beis Hamikdash is destroyed, we can still bring this sacrifice.