{"id":98544,"date":"2022-11-20T02:05:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T00:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98544"},"modified":"2022-11-20T02:05:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T00:05:29","slug":"my-constant-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/my-constant-companion\/","title":{"rendered":"My Constant Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Constant Companion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In general, whenever I fly, I always have an escort with me. But on one flight abroad, my escort could not come, so I found myself flying alone. As I took my seat, I asked Hashem to be my escort, sparing me from sitting near a strange woman. How happy I was to note that as the plane filled and the gates closed, the seat near me remained empty. I immediately thanked Hashem for this great kindness.<\/p>\n<p>But my joy was premature. Suddenly, the doors opened again and a woman, with a dog, to boot, was ushered to the seat next to me. For the entire duration of the flight, I pressed myself against the window. I did not wish to rub shoulders with such seat-mates, or their impure canines. I suffered terribly as I battled my Evil Inclination through the trip. My only desire was to disembark the plane without falling prey to my <em>Yetzer Hara. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>When we finally landed, I immediately stood up and turned toward the exit. But, to my chagrin, the woman refused to step aside. She claimed she was in no hurry. I was forced to stand near her for an extended time and suffered greatly. I am certain it was my <em>Yetzer Hara<\/em> which blocked my passage from this place of temptation.<\/p>\n<p><em>This flight taught me a thing or two. Although I am a scion of tzaddikim and attempt to serve Hashem faithfully, I am never secure from the seductions of the Yetzer Hara. The battle with the Yetzer Hara is ongoing, lasting as long as a person lives on this earth. Therefore, one may never be self-assured until his dying day. He must constantly ask to be spared from his number one enemy, who lurks in the chambers of his heart. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Constant Companion In general, whenever I fly, I always have an escort with me. But on one flight abroad, my escort could not come, so I found myself flying alone. As I took my seat, I asked Hashem to be my escort, sparing me from sitting near a strange woman. How happy I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":26140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yetzer-hara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}