To Blow Up Your Past Sins Is a Yetzer Hara

So many of us have grown up in a frum atmosphere, where not doing what’s proper can be looked at with overexaggerated criticism: “You Rasha who doesn’t learn/daven enough; who isn’t really nice.” All kinds of unending criticisms. Even for real serious Aveiros (Min HaTorah) you can’t look at yourself as a Rasha or a fool or a loser.

Look how Yosef insists that his brothers consider their past as only a Chesed Min HaShamayim! It is a Yetzer Hara to blow up your past sins and we all tend to do these things. You try your best to do Teshuva, and you move on, no matter what you did. Look how the entire Klal Yisroel is built on 12 brothers who committed the most unheard-of cruelty, i.e., selling an innocent baby brother!