It seems to me that if we understand our challenges, we can be freed from them

Quite simply, as one of the sages teach, “I got married at sixteen (I think – common in the olden days) but had I got married at fourteen, I would have been able to banish my yetzer hara.”

As we have had occasion to mention – it’s not that we aren’t good; but every selfish or God-forbid evil desire, weakens our resolve; like doubt weakens our ability to at least, to passionately, move forward.

Hence, life is actually very simple, as particularly men have a very strong ego, which a. gets delusionally enhanced via sex; hence, it weakens their positive resolve of improving the world!