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0:00 welcome to this week's virtual Russia this week we have the incredible privilege with parashatsuki seize and the Torah begins go out to war against your enemies will deliver your enemies into your hands and you will take captives and although of 0:20 course on the external level on the houstonius level of it the Torah is speaking about Warfare so we're speaking about going out to war and barking the beauty of this Posse is the Torah telling us that if you go out 0:30 to war and you go out to War for the right reasons and you go out to war waving the banner of the ribono Shalom Hashem will deliver your enemies into your hands you will be successful but in Hasidic literature it's 0:43 understood that whenever the Torah speaks are going out to war it's never just referring to going to war against an external enemy but anytime Atara teaches us the halachos of warfare there's an internal message there's a panemia's thick message about 0:59 the battles the internal battles that we wage day in and day out the battle with the itsahara the battle with our inner desires and wants and proclivities and loss the very things which seek to derail us throughout life every time 1:17 the Torah gives me Allah of warfare it's not just talking about the soldier who goes out to the Battleground be it in Arizona be it in some foreign country Tara's teaching me about Ground Zero Warfare which occurs inside of my 1:31 heart inside of my soul and gives me the strategies to be successful in that incredible battle as well and along those lines the great Sadiq sees in this posix something amazing the rabbi rights I want to quote you he says 1:52 there are some people who do battle with their yatesa they do better with their inner wants and proclivities and desires and loss and they're successful they're successful right we've all had incredible moments of success when I'm battling against something and 2:07 I stand up to my Yeet Sahara I don't give in I don't do foreign but then something amazing happens one day I vanquished my eight Sahara one day I got and I suppress those things that I want to do or 2:24 I'm not even surprised I overcome them I don't do it and then the next day sometimes it's not even the next day so it's the next hour that same Yates is back with a vengeance and not only that so sometimes 2:40 that very Yates or horror 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 2:57 this time I gave in this time I was overpowered this time I didn't have the willpower to stand up and say no and the rep says in those moments we think to ourselves what's gonna be I think to myself what 3:16 is gonna be and call us says you know and everything we've all had these moments where I wanted to myself like am I ever going to overcome this I've been struggling with this thing and right then one time you know 3:37 you have that moment where that thing well called that thing because all the all the all of us have things that we struggle with very often in life there's a thing there's one thing that is like my it's my most 3:49 acute struggle 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 fell in that same area and I think to myself like 4:02 is this 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 yesterday there's a there's an additional supplementary paragraph of avidway that's in there 4:23 please Hashem I've sinned right and you can buy Cece and then you like like insert your aviras here right because he does like just Pro formers that speak of different categories of sin but then in that video you insert your 4:37 own sin so I say that just last week that I've been saying so many of the same average for so many years it's the same average like it's not new it's not I I I guess maybe it's a good thing 4:53 like I haven't picked up any new ideas right like there's not like anything new that I'm dabbling in but it's the same struggles I've been saying that vidoy for the same avirus for years and it was a very humbling moment 5:11 a very overwhelming moment and to be honest like a little bit of a depressing and defeatist moment where like the rapper of random subscribe says like I've had moments where I've been successful and moments where I've overcome those things and 5:25 moments where I was like I got this and then it was 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 5:41 which leads all of us to one there 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 5:55 in life over and over and what a failure I feel like why haven't I been able to get it together why haven't I been able to go and overcome it why haven't I been able to go ahead and finally stop 6:07 saying those same avarice year after year and the rabbit says something amazing says the answer to this quandary which I think plagues all of us into Australian different ways into different degrees celebs is the answer to this Kasha the answer 6:22 to this question is in the opening Posse of this week's parisha he says you have to put you have to put a semicolon and the rabbit says you the way three deposit is like this when you come into this world 6:41 why do you come into this world why are we here why are we here who put us to do and the Rabbi says I'm here for one reason and one reason only and that is to wage the battle the rabbit 7:00 rights the entire entire purpose of being in this world the entire purpose of creation the entire purpose of my life is to wage the battle it's not even to win it's not to win because you know what happens when you 7:27 win you win one day and we all know how this works You're Gonna Lose the next that is the Derek of life and if it's not the next day you lose some other if it's not the same battle it's a 7:37 different battle life is filled with wins and losses no one always wins so if I never always win what's the average of my life he say to you the entire purpose I'm in this world is just to engage in the 7:53 struggle he says just don't stop fighting against your Yates sir don't give up don't give up don't give in the goal is just simply to fight is the most validating words in the world and it's not just about being successful 8:15 that's not what it's about right it's not about being successful in the battle he says is to wage the war shalom the labor of them causes such an incredible idea the golden life is not success it's not the goal it's 8:37 not the goal if it happens it's not the goal the goal is to wage the battle says in life is the willingness to continue to wage the battle with the Yates sir no matter how many times you use lose fail 8:53 you're in life failure in life is when you stop fighting that's failure do you want to know the entire purpose for which I came into this world why did I leave why didn't my son why did my nishama leave shama 9:10 come down to this world why why says he say it's a semicolon the Muhammad to 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 9:26 many of us on the same boat it's the same struggles I see that as a failure I'm still fighting the same struggles I'm still dealing with the same average still the same stuff after so many years I feel like such 9:39 a failure that I can't get myself together and there of red dumps 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 eight Sahara 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 10:12 here in this world is in order to fight and what an important message for us all year round an incredibly important message for us because dear friends I think many of us come to Avo and whereas there's a sense of 10:25 excitement because new months new possibilities a sense of excitement because you can't redeem an entire year in one month go ahead and set the right framework for the year ahead but sometimes there is a sense of the sadness in that 10:42 I'm struggling with the same things this LOL that I was struggling with last that long and maybe in a moment of brutal honesty maybe I'm starting with the same things this album that I was struggling with the same things five 10:54 hours ago maybe 10 hours 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 that I've ever done nothing can be further from 11:10 the truth 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 fights as long as you're putting up the Muhammad as long as you're struggling even 11:22 if you're losing at times the fact that you're willing to engage in the struggle therein lies the greatest sign of personalistic success see even if this ello were still cleaning up the same problems and the same messes from previous years 11:38 the fact that we're still trying the fact that we're still struggling the fact that we're still still fighting is the greatest success of all wishing everyone a good and out of Shabbos and a beautiful Shabbos
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