Sukkah 52a Part 1/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why would anyone eulogize the yetzer hara when Hashem slaughters it in the days to come? The Gemara says tzaddikim and reshaim both cry, the tzaddikim over the mountain they scaled, the reshaim over the hair they could not overcome. Hashem Himself wonders at the tzaddikim, a real chizuk for anyone facing nisyonos. The first nisayon is the easiest to resist, and each giving in makes the pull harder.

Key points

• The Gemara has the yetzer hara look like a mountain to tzaddikim and a hair to reshaim.
• Rabbi Assi compares the yetzer hara first to a spider's thread, and in the end to a cart rope.
• In truth the yetzer hara stays a strand of hair, overcome just by turning away.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The hesped in the days to come
2. 2:23Why eulogize the yetzer hara
3. 3:55A mountain or a strand of hair
4. 6:38Hashem wonders with the tzaddikim
5. 7:42Rabbi Assi: spider thread and cart rope
6. 12:06Hair or cart rope question
7. 15:13Moshiach ben David asks for life

Topics

• Yetzer Hara
• Moshiach ben Yosef
• Nisyonos