Special Series - An Inspiration to Others | Rabbi Chaim Meir Roth

[Music] Bal Chua was once asked what got him to change his lifestyle it's not easy for one to change and become from when you grew up in an environment that you can do whatever you want and now he's keeping T mitz what was it that made and was the cause of that change and he said an unbelievable think he was once walking in the street behind a they were walking down the street and in front of them there was a store that was selling movies today we don't have such a thing but there used to be stores that sell sold movies and in the window of the store there was pictures that were not obviously the most sanua and he watched as this from person got closer to the store he turned his head away and he stopped looking and made sure not to look at the pictures he saw in the window of this store and he thought to himself it's pleasureful why did he look away and he said to himself it must be that he has something that's more pleasureful something that he finds even more more pleasant and something that he needed to look away for in order to get that pleasure let me discover what that is and he went out and he studied yish and he found let's think about it it's unbelievable this yid who was walking down the street he simply did what a y should do but that inspired somebody else by him making that small sacrifice and looking away he call somebody else and he has this of all the mitas of that other person but moreover what was the message that he saw what was what did he understand when this person looked away he didn't understand that he was sacrificing he understood that he's getting a greater pleasure as theum says the person was created did not create us to suffer the did not create us to sacrifice he created us to get pleasure from where from and we understand that the only way for us to be able to appreciate the special closeness to the which gives us pleasure is only through not dulling our senses by looking that with on things that we're not supposed to and therefore when he saw that yid who looked away he understood that that yid was making a move not the sacrifice but to look away so that he can have a greater pleasure [Music]