{"id":99274,"date":"2022-11-20T06:27:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T04:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99274"},"modified":"2022-11-21T19:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T17:15:17","slug":"intermingling-a-feast-for-the-yetzer-hara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/intermingling-a-feast-for-the-yetzer-hara\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermingling \u2013 A Feast for the Yetzer Hara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Intermingling \u2013 A Feast for the Yetzer Hara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man came to me in Lyon and informed me that two weeks prior, he had participated at the <em>azkarah<\/em> of a prominent man. Of course, there were partitions between the men and the women, as halachah dictates, but since more and more people kept coming, many more than originally anticipated, more tables were taken out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was mixed seating at these tables. After I sat down, a strange woman sat directly opposite me. Until now, I can\u2019t shake off her image.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wept bitterly that this picture robs him of his peace and disturbs him greatly.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing his tale, I realized how mighty the <em>Yetzer Hara<\/em> is, and how critical it is to evade his grip. Here was a man who arrived at an <em>azkarah<\/em> in order to gain inspiration, as Shlomo Hamelech exhorts us (<em>Kohelet<\/em> 7:2), \u201cIt is good to go to the house of mourning.\u201d But even here, the <em>Yetzer Hara<\/em> managed to trip him up.<\/p>\n<p><em>All the more so must we beware of the Yetzer Hara during a time of celebration. Imbibing wine dulls our senses to the machinations of the Yetzer Hara. He is then likely to cause us to sin with forbidden sights<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intermingling \u2013 A Feast for the Yetzer Hara A man came to me in Lyon and informed me that two weeks prior, he had participated at the azkarah of a prominent man. Of course, there were partitions between the men and the women, as halachah dictates, but since more and more people kept coming, many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":99839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protecting-ones-eyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99274","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}