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I once heard, I don’t even remember where anymore that the story about the shepherd that became a nazir in Nedarim 9b shows that the man was makir that his tayvos are not because he himself is pogum somehow and that he should get depressed over himself. Rather he understands right away that his tayvos are all from the yetzer habo’er bikirbeinu tamid, lo yishkot v’lo yanuach.
This is a very important part of aliyos, that a person should never get depressed over his tayvos or if he fails to adequately curb them. Rather he should pick himself up wherever he is and send himself to the ‘Beis HaMikdash’ and for this even Shimon HaTazadik will get up and kiss him.