יום ג Date: 21 Cheshvan, 5776 (11/3/14) – Sotah#8 {Eliezer}

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EYEING EVIL

[8a bottom] Rava: The Yetzer Hara (evil inclination) only rules what a person sees.

Klei Yakar: Sin starts with what a person is able to SEE (even first sin with Eve started when she desired the Tree that she saw). The Yetzer Hara constantly tries to convince us that these pleasures are the only “real” things in life because we are able to perceive them. It entices us with worldly physicality and tries to make us push aside what our souls know and feel.

D-E-ep Thoughts: We should try focusing on this world properly as more illusory and ingraining in our consciousness the only REAL world (the one to come). If what we see and sense in this world is more imaginary, we will be able to let possible sins slip past more easily.