My Eyes Belong to You | Rabbi Nachum Binder

In just a short time, all of Klal Yisroel and the entire world actually, will be entering a different atmosphere. The atmosphere of יום הקדוש והנורא. The holy and awesome day of Yom Kippur. The day when the Ribono shel Olam is מלא רחמים. The day that we plead and beg the Ribono shel Olam to clean us of all our Aveiros, and to grant us a גמר חתימה טובה. Every single person has different highlights of the day of Yom Kippur. For some, it's that Kol Nidrei moment. For others, it may be the Avoda of Yom Kippur. But every one of us has something tugging at our hearts at the time of נעילה. In those last few moments, when we plead, when we beg, when we cry, Hashem, hear our Tefillos. Wipe us clean and grant us חיים, שלום, טובה וברכה. There's one Tefilla that we say during נעילה, part of the Selichos, And I want to offer a novel explanation of this Selicha. Ribono shel Olam, hear the cry of my eyes, the tears that are flowing from my eyes, take those tears and preserve them. And with those tears Why do I think that I'm able to ask that? Because my eyes belong to you. Because I work on my eyes, I work on my Shemiras Einayim. I'm trying. I might have my Nefilos, I may have my difficulties, but my eyes, in general, the work that I put into my eyes is לך לבד, that my eyes should be clean, my eyes should be pure. And in that zechus we ask the Ribono shel Olam, שתצילנו מכל גזירות קשות אכזריות. We're going into Yom Kippur. Let us all make some type of resolution. Let us all be Mekabel on ourselves something to do with our eyes, some type of purity, some type of cleanliness, that we can be able to stand by נעילה, and scream out from the depths of our hearts, Ribono shel Olam, And I deserve to ask that because my eyes are yours. My eyes are cleaner, my eyes are purer. And with that, we will all, Im Yirtze Hashem, be zoche to a גמר חתימה טובה.