The Rambam says that Chazal, our Sages of blessed memory teach us that those prohibitions that are chukim (decrees without any seeming logical explanations) such as not eating chazer (pig meat), one should say to oneself, “I would love to eat it, but what can I do since Hashem has prohibited it.
But those things that are clearly understood to be forbidden (i.e., the prohibition against killing or stealing from others) should not even be a desire for one to say, “I would like to do it, but what can I do since Hashem has prohibited it.”
The biggest challenge for many in our community today is to avoid living a luxurious lifestyle and flaunt it before others. This often forces others who view such a lifestyle to unfortunately contemplate doing financial deeds that are clearly dishonest in order to obtain the money to enjoy that same type of non-necessary luxuries that unfortunately many now think are necessities.
