As a enemy, the yetzer hara behaves like one. He takes the appetite away to do mitzvos by telling us how hard and tiring it is to do. vaymoreru es chayehem beavoda kasha, says the Chasan Sofer, he makes our life bitter by telling us how hard it is to do the avoda. Arami oveid avi, the yetzer hara takes away the bechina that Hashem commands us to do mitzvos for our benefit as a father who wants the good for his child. The Dubner Magid has mashel to one who comes to visit. The host sends out his servant to get his luggage. The servant comes in exhausted all sweated up. The guest tells him, this is not my luggage as my luggage is light and you would not be sweating from it. If we are exhausted from keeping the Torah, we are doing something wrong. The cheshek, desire to keep the Torah by recognizing that it is for our benefit, should make it easy to keep.
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