How do we carry the light of Chanukah into all the days of the year? The yetzer hara fights to make a person despair, but a person must keep wanting and yearning.

The holy tzaddik Rav Moshe Tzenani shlit"a in a strengthening sacred talk – Chanukah 5782

“Darkness upon the face of the deep—decrees are visible—and this happens in every generation… even today: all the culture, all the Sitra Achra, all the movies and all the electronic devices—Hashem should protect us—you see how much people deteriorate from it, and how many fall from all kedushah (holiness), from all the good that a person has.”

“One must know that this happens in every generation—this is the wicked kingdom of Greece that threatens Am Yisrael, the spiritual power of Am Yisrael. It wants to swallow us… Today there is a flood of evil vanities, all the Sitra Achra of this world. All the temptations, all the difficult trials, and Am Yisrael must hold strong.”

“On Shabbat we read in the Haftarah about the prophet Zechariah… and he saw two trees: the Tree of Life and the Tree of Death. The angel answered him and said: ‘Not by might and not by power, but by My spirit, said Hashem of Hosts.’ Rebbe Nachman explains that he saw the strengthening of the Tree of Death… this is how the yetzer hara overpowers a person.”

“A person is in such a terrible war—how will he hold on? He will win the war by holding on! Hashem will come and win the war, as it is written in the Haggadah of Pesach, that He will come and slaughter the Angel of Death…”

“We hold on through desires and yearnings—never to abandon the desire. One must know that the main thing is that a person holds onto the desire through everything he goes through, and does not cool off. How easily a person despairs, and it seems to him that he no longer has a chance—he does not know where he is, and the yetzer hara overpowers him—then he stops wanting; that is the great danger.”

“No one can take the desire from a person—this is the point, the most inner point of a person. This is the Jewish neshamah (soul), the Divine point within a person, and wherever a person may be, it is always found within him.”

“The problem is that a person gives up on the desire. A person must know that the main thing is the desire, and to say to himself: I must strengthen myself and draw close to Hashem; I want to be with the tzaddik, to learn Torah and prayer—and whatever I go through, on the contrary: I fell, I get up… I fell—on the contrary, now I strengthen myself even more. Meaning, I take the fall and turn it into words to Hashem…”