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Bnei Yisrael are Hashem’s kallah, and He is their chatan.The Torah is
the marriage contract. In order to ensure a good marriage, Bnei Yisrael
are enjoined to study the Torah to discover Hashem’s will.
The Yetzer Hara sees the strong connection between Bnei Yisrael and
their Creator. He tries with all his might to sever the knot, by introducing
thoughts of sin into the hearts of man.

When one enters the battlefield with thoughts of fulfilling a mitzvah,
Hashem protects his eyes from wrong sights. But when one is far from
Torah study and does not fear Hashem as he should, thoughts of sin
enter his mind, and he can even be drawn to desire the beautiful
captive woman.

The Torah makes a provision for marrying the captive woman. It is better
that one should marry her in a permitted way than in a forbidden manner.

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“If you build a new house, you shall make The Yetzer Hara is the modern-day Amalek, who waits in ambush at our
a fence for your roof, so that you will not doorstep. The way to eradicate him is by Torah study and mitzvah
place blood in your house if a fallen one falls performance. We can divide the word into . It is possible to
from it” (slaughter) the Yetzer Hara by means of the Torah, which is

(Devarim 22:8) interpreted in (seventy) ways.
“And the living should take it to heart.” The word (and the living)
is numerically equivalent to twenty-nine. Adding one for the word itself
makes thirty, the gematria of the letter , an allusion to (study).
Torah study affords one life. As long as a person lives, he should immerse
himself in Torah, through which he gains the tools to conquer Amalek,
the embodiment of the Yetzer Hara.

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