Every single person has a fully energized disguised mission
to reach this dream of completion. However, we as Jews have the yetzer hara (evil inclination) to deal
with. That angel wants us to completely lose everything enjoyable and
beneficial to ourselves (guf ve neshama,
body and soul alike). What does he do? He tells us in the middle of the act, no
matter how bad it is: “you think you can fix this disastrous act?! Obviously
not so there is no point to stop, continue sinning!”
The biggest mistake we do is that we continue to listen to
his evil advice! Where do we see this in the Gemara? One of the bachurim
(Talmidei Hachamim from Yeshiva) told me this. He said that in Masechet
Berachot the Gemara explains that one who does not say a Beracha on food is
like someone who eats garlic and has bad breath and continues to eat garlic.
Instead of stopping the bad breath by swooshing some mouthwash the person
should eat garlic?! Obviously not. Therefore the Gemara says if someone did not
say a Beracha (blessing) on food, they should not continue eating food without
a Beracha, rather say a Beracha and continue eating!
The same goes for someone who is in a bad state/situation in
life right now. They are spiritually down or even if in the hour, or only today
they are spiritually ‘off.’ There is no such rule that if one is spiritually
turned off it means they should continue expecting the spiritual disaster to
continue. Rather, one should put in the itsy bitsy effort of getting into a
spiritual high (every Jew knows what I am talking about, no matter how secular
or leftist you are), and Hashem will do the rest.
G-d willing we will begin listening to our Yetzer HaTov
(Good Inclination) who just tells us all day to move our lips, say Tefillah
from the depth of our heart to Hashem to forgive us for our past or for even
thinking about changing our positive ways and continue striving to reach our
huge spiritual potentials.
Start off the week
great: smile.
But not too much
because its ben hametzarim.
Judaism=Think.
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