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Light Expels Darkness - Rabbi Ephraim Epstein
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Can we develop an allergic reaction to seeing bad things?
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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
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