Awe of God Toolbox III

The next issue is that you’re going to lose some autonomy.  Let me ask you something.  If you could feel free of your life patterns, that is patterns of behavior, is that losing autonomy? If anything, you’re gaining.  Having Yira’at Hashem is actually a way of confronting you  is actually a way of confronting your Yetzer Hara head-on.  It gives you freedom from limits that we put on ourselves.