15 Av: The Lubavitcher Rebbe Tells Children How to Deal with Yetzer Horah

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The 15th of Av marks the summer solstice. The Code of Jewish law rules that as the days grow shorter and the nights longer, a Jew should increase his Torah study each night.
The evil inclination says to the Jewish Child: "Aha! Now that the nights are getting longer, you have more time to sleep and relax!"
Answers the Jewish child: "Foolish Yetzer Horah, you are the biggest ignoramus there could be! How could you not know that starting from the 15th of Av the very opposite is true -- we must spend even more time learning Torah?! G-d wants to see what I will do when I am left on my own at home and I look outside and see non-Jewish children going to sleep earlier."
What does a Jewish child do? Every night, he takes a bit more of his own time and devotes it to learning Torah and fulfilling G-d's commandments.

16 Av 5744

From Living Torah Disc 77 Program 307

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