The Baal Teshuva - R' Yechiel Spero

foreign [Music] Tells over an amazing story there was about chuva who was nifter he had been about chuva many many years earlier and now he was nifter and at his lavaya the masped the one who was eulogizing him told over the following story he said how did he become about you he was growing up in secular America he had absolutely no connection to Yiddish kite whatsoever and one day he walked by a storefront in the storefront were images and pictures that were completely inappropriate and he decided I'll take a look in the window why not for a guy there is no such thing as kadusha saint nayim for someone who doesn't know they don't realize the damage that it does to one's eyes to one's heart and to one's in the Shama and he was looking suddenly a Ben tiger walks by a Yeshiva man he's clearly a very religious Jew now this balchuva or not yet balchuva noticed that this fellow was walking by everybody that walked by took a peek took a glance after all there's a desire to do so but this fellow specifically looked away and when this fellow when this fryer yid when this irreligious Jew saw that the bantera walked by and was careful not to turn his head in the direction of the immorality he thought to himself what incredible Pleasures he must have in life that he is not lured by this storefront window he must have something very special he must have something that is so much more pleasurable than this filth that I'm looking at I have to discover what it is and that's how he became about chuva and raised the toyridica family not only for this generation but for many generations to come I'd be as Guild sadak and in whose scar whose reward is it walked by one teenage boy walked by and one moment had an incredible amount of strength not to look right or left but to keep his head down and that moment of gura infused someone else with the strength to turn around his life for Generations one day he will come up to the Republic he won't even know what he's done but he has transformed the world of an entire family one moment of strength one act of Guru that's all it it takes