Two thousand years ago, Rabban Gamliel made the observation, "Make His will your will." Avot 2:4
This is a powerful idea in our faith. We are asked to bend our desires to what God wants. Perhaps Rabban Gamliel said this because he understood the power of the yetser (the ego force) inside us. It pushes us to be cruel. It laughs when someone falls and hurts themselves because it happened to them. The yetser is ruthless in its insatiable desire to conquer, humiliate, and take delight when our competitors crash and are burnt up.
Rabban Gamliel fought with the yetser in a lifelong struggle. He knew that the one sure way to insure that the yetser urge was kept in check was to subjugate it and himself to God alone.
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