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“why would a loving G-d create you with a very specific design and then tell you to overcome your nature.”
This is a great question! These are my thoughts. Hashem wants us to be aware of Him and to bind ourselves to Him. To help us with this, He created us with needs. Someone with needs must turn to a provider. He also created us with an ability to experience pleasure. I believe this shows that He loves us – He wants us to feel pleasure! I can experience that myself when I give my children chocolate or a new toy. Oh to see the delight in their eyes! I sit with them sometimes when they eat breakfast. They hum while they eat! This is also why zoos have feeding stations where guests can give food to the animals. Something happened though very early on in the history of mankind. Adam Harishon, the first man, ate from the tree of knowledge of good and bad. This caused changes in us from that very specific design Hashem originally created. We now judge for ourselves good and bad, and naturally we equate pleasure with good, and lack of pleasure bad. But that’s not how we were originally designed, and because of that we are out of sync with our true spiritual and even physical needs.
“Imagine I told you to overcome your nature and do everything alone. The stress and the hardship your life will take will be beyond what you were designed to handle.”
Imagine I told you to walk on your nose. This whole point is irrelevant, because Yiddishkeit doesn’t demand you to be alone, or whatever other awful things you think up. That’s why you’re left scrambling for weird things to make your points. The truth is, Yiddishkeit provides a kosher way to experience almost every inclination.