Seeing Without Looking | Rabbi Avrum Mordche Malach

I once was stuck in traffic, here in Boro Park, where I live, in the back of a van. Traffic in Boro Park is... I see honking won't help, so let's wait till something's going to clear up. Meanwhile, I have time, so I was reading everything that is on the back of the van. I realized that on the left side, like a little bit over the bumper, there was a sticker, and the sticker had like a picture of an eye, you know, the two fingers, like, closed up and there’s an eye looking in, and next to it, it was written these words: So you looked! Advertise here. 347-76-whatever the number was. I was looking at the sticker and I was thinking to myself, What did I just see now? I saw like this, I saw a sticker and the sticker tells me, So you looked, right? So you looked! So come advertise here. Here's the place to advertise. If you looked, everybody looks, let’s advertise here. And I was thinking to myself, you know, that's exactly what the Yetzer Hara does to us, when it comes to the Inyan of Shemiras Ha’einayim. We are human. We are בשר ודם. We're not Mal’achim, even if the name is Malach. We are בשר ודם. We have eyes and we go in the street and we have to look here and there. We are sometimes by the work, and we have to use devices for it, and we look. There's a big, big difference between seeing something and looking at something. What the Yetzer Hara wants to do with us is once we saw something, what does the Yetzer Hara right away come and tell us? So you looked, right? You looked! Oh, so let's spend time together. Advertise here. Place yourself here. Make yourself comfortable here. It's a new world. Let's enjoy ourselves together. And we have to say to our Yetzer Hara: No! It's true, I saw something. But seeing something doesn't mean that I have to spend with you the next weekend. It doesn't mean I have to be with you a Shabbos now. I saw and I go. We should be very clear about it. Seeing something is still not the Aveira. The Averia is when you’re starting to look. When you’re spending time on that thing and this is exactly what we can do. No, we cannot always control our eyes not seeing anything, no. We are not Mal’achim. But from here to decide: I can't anymore, this is a very big מרחק. And here we have to decide: For sure, I can do it.