Taken from Rav Yoshiyahu Pinto’s book Hazon Yoshiyahu.
There was once a beggar looking for end’s meat. He searched
the entire city for the richest people and ended up in the King’s palace. After
hearing the King is resting in the Royal Garden, the beggar came to the garden
ready for some quick Tzedaka (charity). The guard at the entrance of the garden
did not let the beggar walk in. He was so desperate to get the beggar away from
the King he even offered him some cash! The beggar did not give up to the point
that his yells and screams were heard all the way to the spot where the King
was resting.
The King heard the noise and quickly asked the guard to let
the beggar in. The beggar had a single request: fill up my Tzedaka bowl. The
King thought to himself “this small bowl can be filled with a few coins, all
this yelling for this small bowl?” The King realized there was something much
deeper than the simple request. Every time the coin would be placed in the bowl
it would disappear. The bowl was never filled.
The beggar simply answered after the King asked what’s going
on: the bowl is exactly like man’s thinking. The more man satisfies his desire
for the material and physical subtances/women the farther away the ‘bowl of
desire’ will be filled. Meaning, the Yetzer Hara tricks us into burying our own
pit. He tells us to run after the desire and the intense craving for that
specific pleasure will go away. It is the exact opposite.
We must begin to act with the Yetzer Hara and ask Hashem for
help from shamayim like we would act with a vicious and dangerous dog. When we
see a dangerous dog we don’t satisfy his craving to bite into your skin! We
fight him off and hurt him, no matter what it takes! The same goes for the
yetzer hara, the more we hit him and hrut him and shut him down, the more we
will be able to enjoy the sweetness of a life of Torah.
B’H may we all clear our minds of aimless matters and
realize we are the children of Hashem, not liberal Americans and not part of
the non-Jewish world.
Judaism=Think.
Why am I part of this
world and specifically this generation?
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