Strong: How Do We Win the War Against the Yetzer Hara? Rav Moshe Tzenani shlit"a

How to extend the light of Chanukah to all days of the year; the evil inclination fights to make a person despair, but a person must continue to desire and yearn.

The righteous Rabbi Moshe Tzanani shlit"a in a strengthening holy talk - Chanukah 5782

"Darkness upon the face of the deep, decrees appear, and this happens in every generation. Even today, all the culture, all the forces of impurity, all the movies and all the electronic devices, may Hashem protect us, we see how much people deteriorate from this, and how many fall from all the holiness, from all the good that a person has."

"One must know that this happens in every generation - this is the wicked kingdom of Greece that threatens the people of Israel, the spiritual power of the people of Israel. It wants to swallow us. Today there is a flood of evil vanities, all the forces of impurity of this world. All the temptations, all the difficult trials, and the people of Israel must hold on."

"On Shabbat we read in the Haftarah about Zechariah the prophet, and he saw two trees, the Tree of Life and the Tree of Death. The angel answered him and said: 'Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit, says Hashem of Hosts.' Rebbe Nachman explains that he saw the overcoming of the Tree of Death; this is how the evil inclination overcomes a person."

"A person is in such a terrible war, how will he hold on? He will win the war by holding on! Hashem will come and win the war, as it is written in the Passover Haggadah that He will come and slaughter the Angel of Death."

"We hold on through desires and yearnings, never to abandon the desire. One must know that the main thing is that a person holds onto the desire through everything he goes through and does not grow cold. The ease with which a person despairs and it seems to him that he no longer has a chance, he does not know where he is and the evil inclination overcomes him, so he stops desiring; this is the great danger."

"The desire cannot be taken from a person; it is the most internal point of a person, it is the Jewish soul, the Divine point within the person, and wherever a person may be, it is always inside him."

"The problem is that a person gives up on the desire. A person must know that the main thing is the desire and to tell himself, 'I must strengthen myself and draw close to Hashem, I want to be with the tzaddik, to study Torah and pray, and whatever happens to me, on the contrary, I fell, I rise. I fell, on the contrary, now I am strengthening myself more,' meaning that I take the fall and turn it into words to Hashem."