What Is the Advice Against the Yetzer Hara? How Are We Saved from Illness? The

The Daily Chizuk from The Rav, the holy gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – “All illnesses come from blemishes of the Bris”

“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me” (Tehillim 51:7)

Tuesday, 20 Nissan 5783 – “The Gemara is the advice against the Yetzer Hara.”

These are his holy words:

All the illnesses a person has come from blemishes of the Bris that he damaged at age 13. At age 13 he did not know the severity of the matter; he did not have the seichel.

Until age 16 there is no seichel at all—neither for a boy nor for a girl. Either the girl becomes corrupted at 16 or the boy becomes corrupted, because they still do not have da’as; so they conduct themselves only by sensations, only by the Yetzer Hara.

A person is born from the Yetzer Hara: “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me” (Tehillim 51:7). A person is born with the greatest ta’avah.

Rabbi Nosson says that the whole avodah is to nullify this ta’avah. A person cannot confess—he cannot confess—because he cannot bring out the words.

It is very hard for you to confess, because you do not have the simchah of a mitzvah—of a wedding. So go to weddings! Go to every wedding! Go to a wedding of a mitzvah and enter into the dancing, and in the dancing search and feel where the simchah is not entering—whether it is in the legs, and in the heart, and in the mind.

A person needs to enter the entire “floor” of joy—that the heart should rejoice and the mind should rejoice—because the secret is simchah: the root of every mitzvah is simchah.

A mitzvah is not complete without simchah. One must learn with a niggun; there is a niggun for Gemara—if it is without a niggun, then there is no taste in the learning.

A person must know: he needs to learn 8 hours of Gemara—this comes before everything. People ask, “What is Breslov? What is the advice against the Yetzer Hara?” You must know: the first thing is learning Gemara! Even if it feels dry and you do not understand—“an ox gored a cow,” what does that have to do with the Yetzer Hara?—still, the Gemara is the advice against the Yetzer Hara!