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Choosing What to See | Rabbi Shlomo Farhi
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one of the warst and most beautiful
scenes that a person could ever imagine
or see is the mother of a Jewish Family
covering her eyes lighting the Shabbat
candles it's such a beautiful holy sight
the garat tells us that the lighting of
the Shabbat candles brings Shalom by to
the home and what are we told that the
shalom bite comes from because in the
light no one's going to trip in the dark
really that's what that means that's the
Kusa that's the Shalom bite let me ask
you a second question if the Shalom bite
of the candles on Shabbat night is about
not tripping it's interesting to notice
that when the mother brings that light
the light of Shalom B which is about
being able to see something why would
she cover her eyes when she's bringing
it when when the whole K and purpose of
it is in the ability to see and my
friends there's a beautiful idea here
Shalom B does not come from being able
to see or not being able to see you're
in the dark you trip on something it's
going to be a problem so too the idea in
Shalom B is if a person doesn't notice
things lives in the dark they have no
peace in their family in their marriage
because they're not noticing saying all
the beautiful things that are there
perhaps what we're trying to communicate
is you might trip on that which you
can't see that which you're not seeing
but the Shalom B that the woman is
bringing into existence is not when
someone's in the dark where they have no
choice whether they see or not but
rather Shalom bite comes from the
ability to see once the candles are
already lit and there's already light
choosing what it is that you want to
focus on do you want to focus on your
children the beautiful table what
special Delicacies were prepared or do
you want to focus on which things that
you like are not on the Shabbat table
you see the secret of Shalom B therefore
is in being able to choose what I want
to see and what I don't want to see not
in not seeing at all if you're not
seeing what you have you're going to be
miserable you have to see what you have
you have to notice all the beautiful
things but if a person person is looking
at the things that he does not have by
seeing them somewhere else noticing what
is out there that he doesn't have he
brings into his home a lack ofon he's
noticing now because of something he saw
somewhere else what he does not have in
his space that my friends is the choice
of Shalom B seeing being able to see all
the beautiful things that you should but
at the same time knowing when not to see
something that's going to make me think
I don't have that thing Hashem should
bless usem to always know when to keep
our eyes open and when to close them
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