Reply To: Tears of Beis HaMikdash

yentingyenta, :: hugs :: , I felt similarly to what Lior wrote.

Having said that, (I think) I am finally able to narrow down my dilemma.

This is the analogy I thought of:

Let’s say you are having a Shabbat meal. You know if you invite X to this meal, there is a good chance they’ll become religious because they’ll be inspired. If you don’t invite them, they’ll stay not religious. But you can’t invite them because you know for a fact they’ll drive over to you. (Pretend in both cases, those results are fact.)

So now you don’t know which one is the Yetzer Hara. Is the Yetzer Hara telling you to break Shabbat or is the Yetzer Hara telling you to not invite X because the Yetzer Hara doesn’t want X to be religious?

Is the Yetzer Hara telling me to divorce so DH won’t have a wife and will suffer spiritually with no one to motivate him or is the Yetzer Hara telling me to stay, knowing that the marriage will fall apart and we’ll both be too broken to be spiritual at all anymore. Or are both options the Yetzer Hara and there is an option C that I can’t think of?

I hope this made sense.