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About 30 years ago I studied in Monsey, Berel Wine was the Rosh Yeshiva (shortly after, he sold the yeshiva and moved to Israel). One of his favorite teachings he packaged with his Ice Cream Parable of someone very hungry who goes to eat ice cream, the person thinks he's going to put down pounds of ice cream, but chances are that after two scoops he'll be done. Similarly with all temptations a person confronts, the evil inclination fills him with the notion that he will do it over and over again endlessly filling his desires, but even if he pushes himself past the first time (-the realization of emptiness and sham of the bad deed), chances are he won't even desire more than one second time. May HY have mercy.
See also Likutay Moharan, Torah 49 about the infinite desires of a Jew, and see Torah 76 that only by seeing something it is made finite in measure and time (-what today is discussed in quantum physics, as elaborated elsewhere).
[The truth is that in former good times, when people were much stronger, and knew how to channel power from above, and were much more committed to their chosen paths, sometimes they actually would sin over and over again almost innumerably, thus e.g. we find (see Sanhedrin 82b) that Zimree had intercourse with Kuzbee 424 times.]
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