0013 - The Yetzer Hora is here

00:02 The chaval of the farbrengens of lil simchas Torah, the night of simchas Torah before Hakafos were a little bit different than regular, the whole style of the farbrengens. Uh, also there was a much smaller crowd because a lot of the bochurim during the light would go to different shuls to help them dance Hakafos. So they would come more middle of the farbrengen, some would come at the end of the farbrengen, so it was a much smaller crowd. The Rebbe a lot of times, at least in the chofes, would use a lot of English words during those farbrengens because if I remember, a lot of-- since it was less people, some people from the outside used to walk in, so you had a lot of friendly people there. Anyway, there was a special farbrengen. So I remember the farbrengen simchas-- lil simchas Torah Tov Shin Chaf Gimel. That was when the Rebbe spoke about like he would always explaining, uh, peshat im-- peshat and the pesukim of Atah Eres. And then he brought a vort from the Baal Shem Tov and a vort from the Friediger Rebbe and, uh, different inyanim that he brought. And then he started explaining that in connection to one of the pesukim that as much as me-arba tavdelom, me, me, you know, mesira of geulah aveidah, yom teruah, yom kippur, and all these other times. Nevertheless, the yetzer hara doesn't let go of you, the yetzer hara is still there. And the yetzer hara says... And then the Rebbe started talking

01:10 very strongly and was crying, and he said, "Yetzer Hara says, 'You wanna go to Hakafos? Go to Hakafos. Abir ich bin eikh do. I'm also here. I'm also with you by Hakafos.'" And then the Rebbe said, "Vil zogn Atah Eres. Zog Atah Eres. Abir ich bin eikh do. Ein ei mit mir vadai. Ein ei mit mir vadai." He said, "You say a pirush of Baal Shem Tov. Zogn a pirush of Baal Shem Tov," zogt the yetzer hara. "Abir ich bin eikh do. A vort from Reb Naftali Schwer. Zogn a vort from Reb Naftali Schwer. Abir ich bin eikh do. Kil zar Asher bakir buchah, bakir buchah is in dir as ich bin eikh do." In other words, whatever you do, the yetzer hara is with you. And the Rebbe was crying and crying, and then the Rebbe started banging with his fist on the table. "Ot at doshtei the yetzer hara. Ot at doshtei the yetzer hara. The yetzer hara is here in front of you." Now, filamin emt mashke the yetzer hara. Ich man dir and Rebbe was crying so much that he put his head down on the table, and he was crying of this inyan of ot at doshtei the yetzer hara. No matter what you do, the yetzer hara is involved. And I remember I came home after the farbrengen, and I came home to my zeide's house. It's where I stayed. My zeide wasn't by the farbrengen. He was paralyzed. He couldn't come. He was the Rebbe's melamed, so he

02:25 had the greatest derech eretz, I mean, greatest hiskashus to the Rebbe, but he couldn't, couldn't walk. It was yontif. Only the weekday farbrengens he was able to come and sit a little bit, half of the farbrengen. But when I came home, I told him the whole thing of what the Rebbe said. So he told me the famous story of the Baalt Teshuva. The Baalt Teshuva, after he came from the Maggid, and he was metakeh by Hakafos. He was-- they were mechabed him to say Atah Eres. And he took the tallis over his shoulder the way they used to do with the tallis, and he was waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and didn't say, and everyone was wondering what happened. And all of a sudden, they hear him say, "Eiba ze zog du. If so, you say it." And he walked away. They asked him later, "What's happening? What had happened?" So he says, "I wanted to say Atah Eres. I turn around, he's next to me. The yetzer hara is right there." So they asked him, "What are you doing here?" So he says to me, "What are you doing here?" So he answered, "What am I doing here? I'm going to say Atah Eres." So he says, "You're going to say-- I'm saying it also with you." He says, "You're saying it with me?" He says, "Why not? Who are you?" He says, "Who am I? I learned by the Maggid." So he said, "You learned by the-- I learned it with you." And

03:21 then he kept telling him more things. I did this, I did this. He would do it to you. So finally, the Baalt Teshuva says, "Eiba ze zog du. You say it." And he walked away. So this is the same story the Rebbe was saying, "Ot at doshtei the yetzer hara." But the tzirah it was, it made such an impression. Bosher of the gantz aleim, the, the, the, the bosher from the Ayik HaLev where the Rebbe was crying, "Ot at doshtei the yetzer hara" with the whole aliychas of all the other protim that he said.