Shavuos, we need lachem because if not for the yetzer hara we would have never received the Torah and the world would never have been created. The yetzer hara helps us to improve ourselves. If there were no resistance, the light bulb would not burn. Erickson’s child development theory says that one matures by overcoming problems. The yetzer hara might be this problem.
The Chasam Sofer gives us another aitza to fight the yetzer hara. It says סור מרע ועשה טוב turn away from the bad and do good בקש שלום ורדפהו look for peace and run after it. Run after peace, how? Do something small for the soul, disturbing the peace between body and soul and let the body get used to it, reconstituting the peace, and continue this cycle.
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