Mastering Emotions: Lessons & Strategies from Torah Stories

0:01 When a person feels that overwhelming craving or that anger harmful anger that is bubbling up inside of him, he can feel helpless and sin crouches and looms just right around the corner. A person can feel like he's stuck. Everyone has their Achilles heel and everyone has a weak spot. The Gemara refers to this as Ein Adam Chata. No one in the entire world sins unless he has this Ruach Shtos. This sudden foolishness overtaken Nichnas by Ruach Shtos can be a hard thing to fight with reason, for no matter how many times we may convince ourselves and tell ourselves, it's not worth it to get angry, don't lose your cool, it's not worth it to have this one moment of pleasure for longer lasting pain.

1:01 The ruach shtos, the foolishness, doesn't really see eye to eye with the reason. So what is the answer? What can we do to hold on and overcome? Well, take a page of how Moshe Rabbeinu dealt with his most recent nisayon Eidaber el-Kayrach v'el-Kol Adaso. After everyone is now building up this entire riot, the whole mob comes to Moshe Rabbeinu with their pitchforks and says and Moshe Rabbeinu? He falls onto his face. You can almost hear his heartache coming through the pages of the Torah.

1:42 You feel that he's just ugh. Another Nesoyot. These people. They just don't get it, they don't just trust in Hashem. But he says to them In the morning Everyone, let's take a deep breath, let's sleep on it, and tomorrow we'll sort this all out and we'll have this great experiment. We'll all bring our karbonos and we'll have some fun tomorrow. But sleep on it. Sleep on it is the answer that Moshe gave. He didn't deny Korach, he didn't say no. But Boker in the morning, the great Bali Moshe. They tell us that often it's too much to just say no to the craving. It's literally almost impossible.

2:23 When your anger is nearly bubbling up the chamasoboarabo, you just, you can't overcome it, but just say I'm going to get angry to yourself. Think to yourself, but tomorrow, bokeh In the morning, you find the exact rather thing was fought against when Rivka was supposed to be taken to be a wife, and the family, her parents were in favor of this. She was supposed to be taken to be a wife and the family her parents were in favor of this. She's going to be now part of the Jewish nation. But then, all of a sudden, the parents became apprehensive. But El Azar, eliezer, the trusty steed, he knew that he can't let the parents say let's sleep on it because maybe they would get cold feet and back off. He needed to use the enthusiasm to make a good decision. But we can use the sleep on it.

3:05 The bokeh let's see tomorrow approach in our own Yetzirah and business dealings. Don't ever just jump right into it and Yetzirah dealings always sleep on it. Don't just press, send, think about it, because sometimes, when it does feel impossible, that ruach stos has overtaken you. The anger is bubbling up and the craving is just too much. It's just too hard. You got to retard your mutiny, rethink what you're doing, and the easiest way to do that is by reorganizing your thoughts and gathering yourself by just sleeping on it. And we'll deal with it tomorrow. And who knows, maybe you'll see.

3:46 And we'll deal with it tomorrow. And who knows, maybe you'll see things differently when you wake up tomorrow morning.