Reflection Of Our Purity | Rabbi Nachum Binder

We all know the times that we're living in are times when the Yetzer Hara is fighting his final battle, trying with all his might to get us where it hurts us most. Kedusha. Shemiras Einayim. So many of us struggle day in, day out, and at times, throughout these struggles and the Nefilos that sometimes come with it, we feel like failures. We can be walking down the street and something meets our eye and it has such an effect on us. And we think to ourselves, How low can we be, that this affects me so strongly? What's going to be with me? And I once saw a beautiful Mashal. A mechanic who sits all day in his shop, climbing under the cars, letting the oil and all the dirt of the car flow onto his clothing, onto his shirt. If he happens to be drinking a coffee and some of the coffee stains his shirt, it makes no difference to him. The shirt is filthy, anyway. But that young Yeshiva Bochur who wakes up in the morning and puts on that crisp white shirt, straight from the cleaners, and takes a sip of his coffee and a little bit stains his shirt, the whole day, he's busy covering it up, being nervous. My shirt has been stained. So what should we tell him? So is it better for him to put on that mechanic's shirt and then he doesn't have to worry about the stain of the coffee? Or do we all understand that the reason why this stain makes such a difference to him is because of how clean he is? The reason why these things make such a difference to us, is a reflection of the purity, of the Kedusha of our Neshomos, of the Kedusha of our bodies, and the Kedusha which Klal Yisroel stands for. A Nefila is not a sign of dirt, a Nefila is a sign of cleanliness. So the Aibishter helfen we should continue in our struggles and continue leading the path, that when Mashiach will come and the Yetzer Hara will finally fall, Mashiach will turn to each and every one of us, each and every person who had that very Vayimaen moment, and will turn to him and say, You brought me closer.