The Power of Seduction: Uncovering Dinah and Shchem's Story and its Practical Wisdom for Today's World

It doesn't take a wise Talmud Hacham to pick up on the not so subtle name of the fellow Shchem Ben Hamor, shchem the son of a donkey that he's probably not going to be Avram Avino-esque and you know, the best player or huge protagonist. And sure enough, shchem, son of the donkey, is outside and notices Dina also, who was Vataitse. She went out, his eyes saw her, he requested to marry her. He violated her after stealing her and a horrible story ensues Dabra Alevah Naira. He spoke to her and convinced her to come with him. It's not a good story, but what they don't tell you when you're little is that the measures actually says after all of this violation of policy, shchem had spoke to Dina in such a way that he convinced her to stick around. Amar Ab Yudan that when Shem and Levi actually went to go and make a heroic rescue of their sister to take Dina out, dina pleaded I don't want to go, I want to stay here with Shchem Goir in Bavayaitse. They had to schlep her out and pull her out to leave. How's that possible? The greatest of the great, the Bukhir Ha'avos's daughter, wants to cling to this son of a donkey. Burecha makes the story even a bit broader. How's that possible that's such great people, people that learn with angels, people that are Qadish Fatar could ever sin. He says this is the Kayak. This is the answer and this is the scary truth of Penyev Te Levavchem. The Aitahar is speaking to your heart the power of pitoi, the power of what we call seduction. You know something to be wrong, but if you're opened up to it, the reality is that the heart is a very soft, malleable organ. You can believe things temporarily that you never thought you could do or think to be true. Goir, in Bavayaitse, they had to bring her and schlep her out. Burecha points out the Kayak of pitoi is so powerful. How is it possible that, even when you walk into a grocery store or a mall of any sort and there's some salesman there working his magic on you you never wanted this for a dollar. Oh, it's 99 cents, maybe I'll have it. I don't need a new suit, yeah, but it looks so good on you, it's blue and it fits nicely, I don't need it. But pitoi seduction is constantly used as a tactic to get us to do things. How infrequent is it that we just walk into a store and walk out with nothing? How infrequent is it that we live a perfect day, not sitting because we weren't noshlept after the horrible power of pito. It seems very on brand why we remind ourselves multiple times a day that pen. Give the alavavchem lest your heart becomes seduced. So what's the aitza? Does it sound like there is much to save a person once he's already been seduced to do a sin? What we do have is to make walls to make it impossible to not expose ourselves, to have filters, to have blockades, to run far away of a yonus Ahutsa, to run outside and save yourself, to be aware of this horrible and very, very potently powerful koyachkots. Seduction of pitoi makes people temporarily uneducated, temporarily drunk. So be very wary lest your heart be seduced. Set up boundaries, don't trust yourself in certain areas, set up protective fences and hopefully this way we'll be able to set proper ghadarim at sliach in our avaitis Hashem and our ghadarim at sin.