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The evil inclination <yaitzehr huhruh,
usually spelled: yetzer hura> resembles someone who goes and runs amongst
people with a closed fist, and no one knows what is inside it. And he deceives
people, and asks each one: “What am I holding?” And to each one it seems as If
he is holding what he (-that person) desires. And therefore everyone runs after
him, because each one thinks that he (-the yetzer hura) has in his hand what he
(-each person) desires. And afterwards he (-the yetzer hura) opens his hand and
it has nothing in it. Similarly mamash (-exactly) [is] the evil inclination in
that he deceives the entire world, and everyone runs after him, and he deceives
each and everyone, so that it seems to each and everyone as if he (-the yetzer
hura) has in his hand what he (-each one) desires, each one according to his
folly and his desire, and afterwards in the end he (-the yetzer hura) opens his
hand, and there is nothing in it, because there is no one who fills their
desire by him.
All the desires of the world are also
similar to beams of light that enter the house from the light of the sun,
ostensibly they appear to be shafts due to the shining of the sun. And it is
they want to grasp those beams of light, so they grasp and grab but there is
nothing in the hand, so too are all the desires of this world.[1]
[1] See also Likutay Moharan 72, that
just like today thoughts of idolatry have no substance and are just folly, so
too the (physical) beauty and allure of women in reality is just emptiness and
folly, see there.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman!
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