T107 (Tinyana) PNC - The Ta'avah Ha-Klalis — Unlike Achilah, This One Loses Strength

**Pa'am echas dibber mei-inyan ma'us ve-harchakas ha-ta'avah ha-klalis, she-hi ta'avas ni'uf.** *Anah ve-amar*: **Hinei achilah — al kol panim nis-toseif la-adam koach ve-chiyus al-yedei zeh — aval zoiss ha-ta'avah, ha-loi adraba, hi mafsedes u-mazekes ha-chiyus me'oid u-meshatah kocho shel adam me'oid.** *Look at the structure of the two ta'avois that the body craves most.* **Eating** — *al kol panim* — *adds koach and chayyus*; even when it is over-indulgent and harmful in other respects, the *immediate input* is *strength gained*. **But the ta'avah ha-klalis** — *adraba, mafsedes u-mazekes ha-chayyus me'oid u-meshatah kocho shel adam me'oid*. The very *organism* loses koach through it. **Be-vadai ein tzrichin osah klal, ki im bi-shvil kiyum ha-min le-vad.** Therefore there is *no need at all for this ta'avah, except for kiyum ha-min* — and even that only *bi-shi'ur*.