Hostages in Gaza: INCREDIBLE Lesson for Fighting Addiction

In these past two years in Tshin Peehe even though it's been the longest battle kimat that's been in this country we've seen a tremendous amount of casualties when we look around at all the wars they worked with a tremendous amount of intelligence very swift and a tremendous amount of dishaya to be able to get rid of all the ring leaders just now recently by the team they were able to knock off 20 of the heads of these headless people, the we know they were picking them off one by one and being able to eventually get rid of the head of the snake of NASA. We know by Iran in the 12-day war on the first day, they were able to pick off a tremendous amount of the leaders and scientists. Syria itself filled to the waste ground and they were able to completely destroy their whole entire powerful arsenal that existed in Syria. One by one we had a tremendous that we were able to move quick fast and with a tremendous amount of an appreciation to but there's a very interesting note that we have to point out. There's one front which I did not mention with and maybe you've heard about it in Aza. There's a group of hoodlams known as the kamas. And incredibly enough, we are still busy with them. You would think that after the head guy and a few others of the heads were kind of gotten rid of that slowly but surely they would just kind of dissipate, go away, leave us alone and stop. But it hasn't ended. We are almost hitting the 2-year mark. And here we are still busy with them. We're going ahead and still battling them. tooth and nail when all the other fronts have seemed to come to a halt. What is the difference? The difference is one word, what we call hostages. Just because of the fact that they captured those hostages and they were willing to give up their lives for it on October 7th. They tried to pull them over the finish line to pull them into Azen. A lot of them were shot down. And a lot of these hooligans were shot down on the way while they were trying to take them over because they knew that having hostages was a gamecher. When we were attacking, we had no inhibitions. We were able to blow up anything we wanted and we could do what we we wanted without any type of hesitation. Over here in Aza, we have to go house to house slowly but surely tipping toe from one place to the next in order to avoid hitting any hostages. All these tunnels where we knew that they're hanging out. All you have to do, and they did in the beginning, was take a tunnel and start squirting it with water down and drown in the water. So, they all drown inside of there like a bunch of rats inside of a furrow. It would have been very easy, but we were worried about the hostages. They knew and we know that the hostages make all the difference in a battle. It's much harder to defeat a war, defeat an army or to another side when they're busy holding on to our hostages. This is what we see in our para in the beginning. When it talks about going out to war on your it says it talks about getting the hostages you will get back your hostages and even take some of theirs. But we see a phenomenon in our parha about grabbing hostages because sometimes that is what makes the difference and you have to go ahead and grab back the hostages which you lost. Now these words of asim points out and many other of theo and others mention that the word has is a singular lion that's individual even though we're in the middle of a war with a lot of people. Why is this individual? Because they say that's the small war. The wars that we're familiar with is small wars. The big wars is the war that's within myself. The battle that I have with my The battle with my have with my inclination to do something wrong. That's the battle day by day, hour by hour, newness by newness, always having a different front to find. And that is a very difficult battle. He makes you stumble and you try to pick yourself up. He tries to put you away by making you do a sin. But hopefully we realize, oh, this is not really me. And you go ahead and you try to work on yourself. We're an elchu kipper. We go ahead and make a difference and try to remove and clean the slate of what I did wrong. However, there's a much more powerful war that happens when the captures you. You're in trouble. When he takes a part of you and he captures you as a captive, you're a hostage. Then you should know your battle is big. It's much difficult. you are now fighting with Kamas and not just with the and not even though is much stronger than kamas and not with all the other fronts that we have to battle with because now when you're dealing with a hostage that is by the you should know that you have to overcome that in a very difficult way what am I referring to what kind of captive does the atahara get one word the word is addiction when a person has an addiction as The garra says suddenly it becomes permissible. Suddenly is attained permissibility. There is nothing necessarily wrong with what I'm doing. It's hard for me to feel that anything I'm doing is incorrect. When I stumble one time, I try to pick myself up, clean myself off, and move on. But over here, I realize that I am not. There's nothing wrong. What am I already doing? It's not such a big deal. Everybody's doing it. Why are you giving me borage? Why are you giving me criticism? Everyone's doing this. The thing that everyone does. If you really If I And you know what? If I really wanted, I could stop whenever I want to say, whenever I would want. No problem. Sounds familiar. People who are addicted deny their scenario. There was a person who said, "It's over. I've taken care. I have no problems anymore with technology, alcohol, gambling. I'm good to go. Leave me alone. No more criticism, no more working. I'm It's already behind me. What if anyone wants to challenge me? So, send me a WhatsApp and I'm willing to bet you a bottle of whiskey that I'm telling you the truth. Trust me that it's okay. A person who is sometimes immersed in his addictions, has no way to get out of it. He is completely confined. He has no way of being able to remove himself from the situation that he is in because he doesn't realize that he is in a situation. He doesn't realize the severity of the manner and he just kind of gets used to it and therefore it is that much difficult to be able to beat him to be able to get him out. That's what it means when the atahara grabs you. He takes a piece of you and you're not able to wiggle yourself out of it because of the fact that you are so addicted and so locked up in your in your in yourself in your what we call your what you call your addictions. So let me give you a misa that happened with Rafel Shadron Shadron of course the great mages built his stories all from around him was one time walking to Shul and on the way to Shul he saw that a manhole cover was off. It was off it was revealed the bore was open the pit was open and he noticed a few people around there and while he was getting closer and closer he smelled a scent. He got closer and closer and just got worse and worse the scent. It was just getting absolutely putrid. When he got close enough to the bore to the to the to the sewage that sewage system that's going downstairs, he had to completely close his nose out of absolute disgust from the scent that is protruding from this well from down here in the sewer system. But he couldn't believe his eyes. as he saw a sight that just absolutely mummified him as he passed by the unraveled manhole cover and looked down into the the pit down there and he looked down into the into the hole. He noticed that there were three guys there who were in charge of fixing up the system, cleaning it up and trying to do what they do. That's her job. And they were on a break. They sat down, the three of them, and they were eating lunch. They had some pitha with humus, a few a few cucumbers inside and tomatoes. And they were eating and smoozing away together down in this pit which was holding his nose as tight as possible from the absolutely horrific smell that was protruding from there. And he looked at this and he was absolutely incredible. It's absolutely incredible. When he finally got home, he went and reported this story to his family members, his wife and his children. And he said, "From here, I learned an incredible thing. I'm sitting here absolutely disgusted by the smell. And these people are sitting and having lunch. They're making a picnic right around the bou, right around the sewer system. What's the difference? The difference is that they got used to it. They live by it. They swim by it. Sometimes they go ahead and they work with it daytoday. The smell just became part of their system. It became part of something that they have and therefore it does not affect them at all. This is something real. Smell is something that's actual. So for sure when we're talking something about conceptual when I do something wrong when I act incorrect and I get to a stage of addiction it's very hard to admit fault. If a person can't actually smell or smell that exists, then when I do something that's an action, I'm not willing to admit that I'm doing it wrong. Are you sure you're dressing appropriately, or is it just the mode of dress that you got used to? Because everybody's doing it. It's just the style around. What's the problem? Why are the rabbis sitting on top of me? What's the big deal about this? Why can't I control my eyes or my fingers from pushing the wrong buttons? Well, it's just part of life, you know. It's just they say a very large percentage, I won't say what percentage of people fall into the wrong websites. You know, it's just a common phenomenon. So, I'm not something out of the box. It's a norm. It's something that's not so bad. Okay, I got to work at it, but it's not as bad as you make it out to be. Why does you Why do you have such an anger problem? Well, anger is just part of my system. Leave me alone. It's just part of what's about me and it's fine. And I don't really get angry. It's really her that's causing me to get to get irritated. It's really those kids that are making me bananas. Why are you not showing up to minion? Or why are you coming so late to minion? It's just something that's done. I'll try. If I really want to, I could get tomorrow. I will. I really do come on time. Just today I didn't. Okay. Say and yesterday. All right. This week I didn't come on time. There were All right. say, "You're right. For the past couple weeks, it's been a problem, but I'm working on it." People are, you know, seder. Do you ever make a sader? All these issues are issues that I can call sometimes I Oops, I made a one time mistake. Or if you don't mind me calling an addiction, I'm not going to talk about an alcoholic addiction or a gambling addiction or the other addictions that we are swamped with in our generation. I'm talking about being addicted to doing something incorrect and not working and working on it because you're so succumb to it. You're so surrounded by it. So suddenly you are trapped. You are confined. The Sahara captured you. He's got you trapped and you can't get out of it. When we have to get those hostages out, you have to use violence. You have to kill Kamas and pull them out and have no mercy. No exchanges. No, no, sweet talking like the leftists are interested in doing. You have to do exactly what we're doing to go ahead and appreciate and say, "I'm an alcoholic. I am wrong. I It's hard. I am doing something wrong. I know that it's incorrect. I know that I can prove. I know that this is not something I should be doing. This is something I'm doing incorrect. I do it all the time and it needs to change. I am addicted to my smartphone. I cannot stop. Every time my husband walks in, I'm on the smartphone. So, he says, "Just get off." But I do get off. If I really wanted to, I could get off. But, you know, I'm in the middle of a conversation. So, what's the big deal? I am not really sort of speak addicted to my iPhone cuz I get off of it on Shabbat. I mean, sometimes when people aren't looking, I'm okay. Do you understand? A person's got to stop and do what they teach you in Alcoholics Anonymous. And that's the hardest part of the whole thing. I am an alcoholic. I got something wrong with me. Admit fault and then you will be able to retrieve the shuyim. You'll be able to get those captives not only out of Aza but out of yourself. You will be able to free yourself from the shambles of the is working by convincing you that what you're doing is okay. As writes in and with this I finish in one of his letters the subconscious runs a person's life because that's just what's going on in your back mind. And that's what you do an automatic pilot. The point in the back of your brain, the subconscious is your automatic pilots. That's where you're doing it. Your avoid in l and the mua is to take the subconscious and put in the conscience. Make it cognitive. Make something that's not conscious that you're non-concious about and make it conscious. Make it cognitive. Make it real. So instead of being just an instinct, you think about it. you make a and with that you annihilate the Sahara because the second you're thinking he has no stepping stone. He has no way of vanquishing anymore because he can't get you on what I what I'm referring to as the addictions because suddenly you're thinking about it something you're understanding this is not right something's wrong here something has to change and with that you will be able to release the hostage within yourself and go back to the stage of being absolutely annihilating any problems that are within you that is the key to the real chuva Shabbat shalom.