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The Evil Inclination may approach a Jew and claim, “You’ve been busy studying Torah and doing mitzvos – but I’ve been out there in the real world. There are so many other nations, so many influences which oppose Torah study and Jewish observance. You can sit in the synagogue or the study hall and ‘await his coming every day’… But the world seems to show an entirely different reality!”

The Evil Inclination comes to a Jewish child – or any Jew – and says: You can sit in the synagogue or the study hall and ‘Await Moshiach every day’…But the world seems to show an entirely different reality!”

The Code of Jewish law rules that from the 15th of Av and on, as the days grow shorter and the nights longer, a Jew should increase his Torah study each night.