Failure or Investment? | Rabbi Yossi Bensoussan

Shalom, Vayimaen! What an unbelievable movement we have going over here. Such an unreal momentum. I know how much Chizuk I get from it. So incredible. I would love to point out one point of Shemiras Ha’einayim, that I think gets so overlooked all too often. And that is the obsessive concept of not falling, of not messing up, of never tripping. What we don't realize is is every time that we veer from a path that we were on, it's not just by chance, it's not a mess up, it is a sign. It’s a sign of where we need to build another wall, of where we need to protect ourselves better. There’s a famous story of a vice president in a company, who made a $1 million mistake on a deal. He lost the company $1 million. And he came in to the CEO of the company and he tendered his resignation. He handed in his resignation and said: I know, I know I'm getting fired. I know I messed up and there's no turning back from this one. So here you go. Here's my resignation. Listen to what the CEO said to him. He tore up the resignation and threw it back at him. And he said: I just spent $1 million educating you. I just spent $1 million investing in you. You're never going to make that mistake again. You think I'm going to let you go down the block to my competition and start working for them? No way. I invested in you. You're going to work for me. The beauty of the reality of it, the beauty of the truth of it, is that no matter what happens, as long as we embark, as long as we just start the process of trying to be Shomer Einayim, no matter what happens, we're always able to look at every single bump, at every single part of the road that we didn't do well on and say: That's where I need to work. But if we do it a little bit at a time, if we work on every one of those mistakes a little bit at a time, then we're able to finally create the idea of true Shemiras Einayim, of truly clean eyes.