CHASSIDIC PEARLS BY RABBI LAZER BRODY PARSHAS METZORA
"They shall not die as a result of their impurity" (Vayikra 15:31).
Never in all of history has there been such a widespread Jewish spiritual rebirth and thirst for Torah as in the present generation. Nevertheless, the yetzer hara, the Evil Inclination, doesn't surrender. He tells the Jew that was born far away from Torah that the war's over – he or she is finished. "You might as well return to the pub or the discotheque," says the conniving, lying yetzer hara. "You'll never make it as an observant Jew. You won't be able to understand a word of Gemorra – it's all in Aramaic. You won't be able to relate to a word of religious law, much less fulfill its ordnances. You're finished! Get out of here and go back to the bowling alley!"
The yetzer knocks a person down, robs him of his confidence, and injects despair in his heart. The yetzer hara's poisonous arrows incapacitate a Jew, especially a Baal Teshuva, unless that person fights back.
"They shall not die as a result of their impurity" (Vayikra 15:31).
Never in all of history has there been such a widespread Jewish spiritual rebirth and thirst for Torah as in the present generation. Nevertheless, the yetzer hara, the Evil Inclination, doesn't surrender. He tells the Jew that was born far away from Torah that the war's over – he or she is finished. "You might as well return to the pub or the discotheque," says the conniving, lying yetzer hara. "You'll never make it as an observant Jew. You won't be able to understand a word of Gemorra – it's all in Aramaic. You won't be able to relate to a word of religious law, much less fulfill its ordnances. You're finished! Get out of here and go back to the bowling alley!"
The yetzer knocks a person down, robs him of his confidence, and injects despair in his heart. The yetzer hara's poisonous arrows incapacitate a Jew, especially a Baal Teshuva, unless that person fights back.
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