The Talmud teaches: “A person should always provoke his good inclination to overpower his evil inclination.” (Berachot 5a).  Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz (1873-1936) taught that it is a mistake to assume that the struggle between these two inner forces is one of logic, and that our actions are determined by whichever logic prevails.  Not so.  The battle is one of sheer force.  Whichever force has the greater strength, dominates. ~ Every Day, Holy Day by Alan Morinis