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0:00 welcome to this week's virtual this week we have the incredible privilege and the Torah begins when you go go out to war against your enemies and will deliver your enemies into your hands and you will take captives and although of 0:19 course on the external level on the level of it the Torah is speaking about Warfare Tor speaking on going out to War and the beauty in this is the Torah telling us that if you go out to war and you 0:30 go out to War for the right reasons and you go out to war waving the banner of the Hashem will deliver your enemies into your hands you will be successful but inic literature it's understood that whenever the Torah speaks out 0:46 going out to war it's never just referring to going to war against an external enemy but anytime the Torah teaches us the Halos of warfare there's an internal message there's a ptic message about the battles the internal battles that we 1:02 wage day in and day out the battle with thear the battle with our inner desires and wants and proclivities and lusts the Very things which seek to derail us throughout life every time the Torah gives me a of warfare it's 1:20 not just talking about the soldier who goes out to the Battleground be it in our Isel or be it in some foreign country T is teaching me about Ground Zero Warfare which occurs inside of my heart inside of my soul 1:32 and gives me the strategies to be successful in that incredible battle as well and along those lines the great sadic the great sadic of schl rsk sees in this PK something amazing the re writes I want to quote you he 1:52 says there are some people who do battle with their Yer they do batt with their inner wants and proclivities and desires and lusts and they're successful they're successful right we've all had incredible moments of success when I'm battling against something 2:07 and I stand up to my I don't give in I don't do but then something amazing happens one day I Vanquish my Yara one day I go ahead and I suppress those things that I want to do or not even 2:25 suppress I I overcome them I I don't do it and then the next day some it's not even the next day the next hour that same Yater har is back with a vengeance and not only that sometimes that very Yater 2:41 har that I defeated the first time that very want desire proclivity inclination lust that very thing that I conquered just a little while ago not only is back but this time I failed this time I failed this time I gave 2:58 in this time I was overpowered this time I didn't have the willpower to stand up and say no and the Reb says in those moments we think to ourselves what's gonna be I think to myself what is going to be 3:24 so the says you know I think we've all had these moments where I want to myself like am I ever going to overcome this I've been struggling with this thing and right then one time you know you have that moment 3:38 where that thing we'll call it that thing cuz all the all the all of us have things that we struggle with very often in life there's a thing there there's one thing that is like my it's my most acute struggle 3:50 and maybe I've been struggling for a long time and so there's that moment where I'm successful I'm like yeah I got this i got this and then I fail in that same area and I think to myself like is this 4:03 my life like is this it is this going to be my ongoing struggle you know I I had this moment not so long ago you know there's there's an additional supplementary paragraph of there's a that's in there please I've sinned 4:26 right and you and then you like like insert your a here right because those like just proor words that speak of different categories of sin but then in that V you insert your own sin so I say that and it 4:40 dawned on me just last week that I've been saying so many of the same a virus for so many years it's the same a virus like it's not new it's not I guess maybe it's a good thing like I haven't 4:54 picked up any new Aus like there's not like anything new that I'm dabbling in but it's the same struggles I've been saying that V for the same a for years and it was a very humbling moment a very overwhelming moment 5:12 and to be honest like a little bit of a depressing and defe moment where like the rabam says like I've had moments where I've been successful and moments where I've overcome those things and moments where I was like I got 5:27 this and then it's like the part of the term like the relapse then like I'm doing it again I'm living that way again engaged in those behaviors again which leads me to wonder which leads all of us to wonder so 5:44 the RAB says like is this my life is this it is this it am I am I constantly going to be like in the up and down the Peaks and valleys of the same struggles in life over and over and 5:58 what a failure I feel like why haven't I been able to get it together why haven't I been able to go Ahad and overcome it why haven't I been able to go ahead and finally stop saying those same Aus year 6:09 after year and the Reb says something amazing the Reb says the answer to this quandry which I think plagues all of us in prob in different ways and to different degrees says the answer to this casha the answer to this 6:22 question is in the opening P of this week's par he says and like the says you have to put you have to put a semicolon and the reab says the way to read the is like this when you come into 6:39 this world why do you come into this world why are we here why are we here what did put us to do and the Reb says I'm here for one reason and one reason only and that is to wage the 6:59 battle the writes the entire entire purpose of being in this world the entire purpose of creation the entire purpose of my life is is to wage the battle it's not even to win it's not to win because you know what 7:27 happens when you win you win one day and we all know how this works you're going to lose the next that is the D of life and if it's not the next day you lose some other if it's not the 7:36 same battle as the different battle life is filled with wins and losses no one always wins so if I never always win what's the AV of my life the entire purpose I'm in this world is is just to engage in 7:53 the struggle he says just don't st stop fighting against your Yater don't give up don't give up don't give in the goal is just simply to fight these are the most validating words in the world and it's not just about 8:14 being successful that's not what it's about right it's not about being successful in the battle he says the the is to wage the warom the ream tells us such an incredible idea the goal in life is not success it's not 8:36 the goal it's not the goal if it happens that it's not the goal the goal is to wage the battle success in life is the willingness to continue to wage the battle with the Yater no matter how many times you 8:51 use lose failure in life failure in life is when you stop fighting that that's failure do you want to know the entire purpose for which I came into this world why did I leave why did my why did my sh 9:09 leave sh and come down to this world why why says semic say a semicolon fight you see dear friends we think that because we're constantly engaged in struggle and for many of us for me for me and I'm sure many 9:26 of us on the same boat it's the same struggles I I see that as a failure I'm still fighting the same struggles I'm still dealing with the same Aus still the same stuff after so many years I feel like such 9:39 a failure that I can't get myself together and the rebba of rumps comes and gives us hug and he says you're not a failure you're a person not only are you not a failure but if you're still fighting if you're 9:54 still willing to put up the fight if you don't lay down and play dead for the if you don't let him just trample all over you and you're still putting up resistance that's success that's success the reason I'm here in 10:12 this world as is in order to fight and what an important message for us all year round an incredibly important message for us fores because dear friends I think many of us come to El and whereas there's a sense of 10:25 excitement because new month new possibilities a sense of excitement because you can redeem an entire year in one month could go go ahead and set the right framework for the year ahead but sometimes there is a sense of the sadness 10:39 in that I'm struggling with the same things this L that I was struggling with last El and maybe in a moment of brutal honesty maybe I was struggling with the same things this L that I was struggling with the same 10:53 things five LS ago maybe 10 ls ago and when I have that like moment of self-awareness I begin to feel like a failure I just begin to feel like a failure and therefore says nothing could be further from the truth 11:12 that a person should ever feel like a failure you're only a failure if you stop fighting but as long as you're putting up the fight as long as you're putting up the M as long as you're struggling even if you're 11:22 losing at times the fact that you're willing to engage in the struggle there in lies the greatest sign of personalistic success see even if this L were still cleaning up the same problems and the same messes from previous years the 11:39 fact that we're still trying the fact that we're still struggling the fact that we're St still fighting is the greatest success of all wishing everyone a good and AR of chabas and a beautiful shabus KES
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