Revenge with One Eye | Rabbi Nissan Kaplan

Shmiras HaEinayim is one of the beautiful things that Klal Yisroel have. Twice a day, we daven קריאת שמע and we say over what HaKadosh Baruch Hu told us, The Heilike Torah, twice a day makes sure to remind us, Don't go after your eyes. Shimshon HaGibor was one of the greatest נביאים in Klal Yisroel, one of the strongest people. He saved Klal Yisroel. And the Plishtim got hold of him and they tied him up, they took out his eyes and they put him in a big stadium. Everyone was there to laugh at him. Here is this big נביא, this strong guy, and now he's useless. And he's standing in this huge stadium, thousands and thousands of Plishtim are there, and he's put in between two big poles. And he turns over to the Ribono shel Olam and he says: Hashem, pay me for one of my eyes. I want to take a Nekama from the Plishtim. And Hashem gives him back his strength, and he pulls both poles and it falls, and all the Plishtim are killed. And Chazal say, Shimshon said: Give me one of my eyes, but the other one I want לעתיד לבוא. If we would know, if we would understand the power of the zchus of Shmiras Einayim, the zchus when a person keeps his eyes, and he doesn't look where he doesn't have to look, we will the whole day look for that Mitzvah of Shmiras Einayim. We would want to, the whole time, look after our eyes. Chazal say, The Avos HaKedoshim had control of their eyes. They didn't see what they want to see. This is the eyes. I want to give a little tip of Shmiras Einayim. I think Shmiras Einayim is one of the most important things. Chazal say: העיניים are the סרסור of the עבירה, they bring it to the לב and then the person does the עבירה. How do we keep the Shmiras Einayim? There’s one key. The Yetzer Hara, the whole time, makes you have a feeling, I have to watch my eyes. I have to see what is going on. If a person will take it in an easy way. Not to say, Oy, I can’t look there, I can’t look there. Just move ahead, move ahead. Just don't look, just move ahead. Then you will have the easiest time of Shmiras Einayim. The Yetzer Hara tells you, Oy, I saw something, it's bad. I don't look there. He wants you to be busy with the Shmiras Einayim. But if you take the Shmiras Einayim and do it in an easy way. You see something? Move. Just move. Just move, just move. Don't say: It's right, it's wrong, it's right, it's wrong what I saw. Oy, they're such bad people. Just move your eyes. Be easy to move away your eyes. Then you will have the Shmiras HaEinayim.