Rav Avigdor Miller on Shemos and Yetzer Harah

0:00So that one of my new favorites, I've got it as a kid, there were certain rabbis that before technology was popular, they used to put out audio tapes. And what they would do is they would weakly do weekly classes. And I used to get different people's. But Rabbi of Vigdermiller was one of the big ones. And he was a godly. He grew up in Baltimore. He went to public school. And then his mother sent him to Slobodka in Europe. And he learned there for a number of years. And he came back and he became one of the real godly of Torah in the United States. He was in New York. And he was a scientist also. He had a scientific mind. He was able to compare the Torah to anything. It was amazing to listen to him speak. So what he speaks about this week at the beginning of Shamos, is he talks about Pharaoh. Now what was Pharaoh?

1:00Pharaoh was actually a prototype. Whenever Hashem gives us an example of something or gives us a way, for example, we have a Yates or R and a Yates or Tove, he always shows us the examples of the Yates or Tove like the patriarchs and people that were outstanding in character. And then he also wants to give us an example of when things are negative. And Pharaoh is actually the prototype of the Yates or Horror, so that we could see what the Yates or Horror looked like, our evil inclination looked like in a practical way and see what it was. And what he starts off this week's portion about, as he says, that what Pharaoh's tactic was, was busyness. All he tried to do was keep the people as busy as possible. And the one time, Moshe brings up, we want to break the system. We're going to just go out for three days

2:01and then we'll come back. He goes nothing doing. You're going to break the consistency of the busyness and you're going to let the people think about going free. He says, the Yates or Horror does the exact same thing. He said, if people know how amazing it is to stop for five seconds during the day and just think about Hashem. Whatever it is, the greatness of a flower, the stars in the moon, I always think of Saturn when I'm trying to think. Because it's 120 million miles away. It has to be gigantic to even be able to see it with the telescope. But those moments that you think about Hashem is the best way to beat the Yates or Horror. Because he's just trying to keep you busy with business and with life and with everything. He'll let you learn. He'll let you do mitzvahs all day long. Just don't think about Hashem.

3:03That's his main goal and that's what Pharaoh was doing. So what we could take away is if you get a chance for a couple seconds here and there, you see something beautiful, whatever, which most of us do anyway. We say Hashem's such a beautiful sight. When you do that, know that you are using that example of breaking the Yates or Horror. So don't let your business get in your way, try to think about Hashem as much as possible. You should go. Good. Rabbi Hinnanib, Rabbi Hinninib, Nekasyn, Rabbi Hinnanib, Rabbi Hinninib, Binnakash, Nomeh, Ruts Akharus, Barafu,