Light Expels Darkness - Rabbi Ephraim Epstein

[Music] welcome to the daily physic broadcast this is a fry m epstein from cherry hill let's guard our eyes together because the torah states every day and we recite it we every day in the shema a person should not stray after their hearts and after their eyes so it show with him time and everyone's trying to remember to be holy and we're all trying to give each other physic on not to go after our eyes to the wrong places don't click on the wrong places on our computer or our phones and we'll tell each other about how bad it is and it is bad and it is addictive and it does terrible things to our minds our hearts and our souls but is that really what's going to get us to improve it says in the torah of sasuru akhrei levakham before it says don't stray after your eyes it says don't stray after your heart meaning your desires and so therefore the way to cure our eyes from going to the wrong place is to channel our desires would quote the verse surme ravi assaytov and he says the best defense is a good offense the best surme ra is an asetov so let's like the hanukkah menorah soak our eyes in good things right we're not allowed to use the hanukkah menorah lights for anything else why because they're holy we aim to soak our eyes in goodness when we soak our eyes in goodness so then our eyes will repel badness bad things so what are some good things that we can look at and not go out of our way how about the sun rising those who have the great fortune of waking up early in the morning and being on the road early soak your eyes on a sunrise or in the evening time if you happen to live in an area where you get to see the sunset certainly over the water soak your eyes on the sunset i had the great opportunity to go with my russia shiva to hawaii who goes to hawaii with their rosh shiva and i took a group from that tour to go on top of a hotel to go stargazing there's nothing like stargazing in hawaii when you're in hawaii and you look up you see stars galore you're so close and you see them shooting and you see unbelievable galaxies in front of your eyes you soak your eyes in god's handiwork when you soak your eyes in god's handiwork there'll be an allergic reaction hopefully to letting less holy things into our eyes goodness repels badness light dispels darkness good things in our heart and in our eyes will help us stay away from not good things in our heart and in our eyes let's utilize this time well let's see the world like moshe did and not like paro did let's look with a tov iron with an iron tove with a good eye and not an eye in hara i in our eyes when we look bad on others but don't let rock come into our iron if you don't want to look bad don't let bad come in people who see the world positively see a different world and how can i not give a plug for studying torah if a person has the grand opportunity to watch a video every day to open a safer english hebrew yiddish spanish polish german whatever open up a safer if you get to have a shear if you have a rub or a friend a havrusa that you're able to learn that's also feasting your eyes on goodness let's feast our eyes and soak them in goodness so that we will naturally soar because we were assai tov we can do it thank you for listening to the guard your eyes daily physic broadcast pass them on to your friends and help spread kedusha in the world