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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.
                                                                                                                     “You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were
                                                                                                                     a sojourner in his land”
                                                                                                                                                                                                  12
                                                                                                                                                                   (Devarim 23:8)





 “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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