When I started the OA program, I had to learn to be honest with myself. One of the things that I had to be honest about was that if I bite my nails on weekdays, I might not be able to stop myself from doing it on Shabbos. I decided to make sure to keep my nails polished so that I wouldn't bite them on Shabbos. Now that I am on OA for 844 days (give or take a few minutes), I wanted to see if I needed to keep them polished. For a few days everything was fine. All of a sudden a nail broke and I wanted to "just even it out". Before I knew it I was fighting to keep myself from biting my nails. Back on went the polish. I learned an important lesson from this. Even when we think that we have conquered a bad habit, there are no guarantees out there. We always have to stay vigilant, because the Yetzer Hara is stronger then we are.
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