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The Cancelled Meeting | Rabbi Nachum Binder
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We may think that guarding our eyes is difficult. However, know that the longer you don't look, the easier it gets and the closer your connection to Hashem will be. Learn more about Vayimaen and join our WhatsApp group here: https://www.vayimaen.org/ #vayimaen #shmiraseinayim
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I want to share a story
that I once heard
from Maran Rosh HaYeshiva,
R’ Elya Ber Wachtfogel shlit”a.
In the mid-90s, there was a Bochur
who, as he was getting older,
Shidduchim wasn’t going,
started experiencing tremendous Nisyonos
in Shemiras Einayim.
Walking down the street,
anywhere he went,
was a tremendous difficulty for him,
and he gave in to the Yetzer Hara
time and time again.
Until he reached a point
where he felt he was totally lost.
A friend of his
tried to encourage him
to go talk to the Lakewood Mashgiach,
R’ Nosson Wachtfogel z”l,
and maybe get some Chizuk.
He didn't really think
anything would happen,
but begrudgingly he agreed.
After telling over the story,
saying over the situation
to the Mashgiach,
the Mashgiach told him:
I want to talk to you,
but I need ten days.
I need that you
should be Mekabel on yourself
that for the next ten days,
you will not look
where you're not supposed to look,
you will not do
what you're not supposed to do.
Ten clean days
and then come back to me
and we can talk.
Day one went by,
day two, day three,
and the Nisyonos
were getting very hard.
But a word is a word,
and he kept on going.
As day six,
day seven, day eight came
and he lost all his Cheshek,
all his flavor in trying to do this,
and he was about to give up.
Nothing's going to happen anyway.
But he kept on saying to himself:
It's only another two days.
Let me try.
Day ten came and he was counting
down the hours to be totally free
and be able to go back
to looking where he wants
and doing what he wants.
Day ten in the afternoon,
he walked into Landau Shul in Flatbush
to daven Mincha.
And the Mincha started
like every other Mincha started,
but all of a sudden,
in the middle of Shemoneh Esrei,
he experienced a feeling
that he never experienced before.
He experienced a tremendous closeness
to the Ribono shel Olam.
He felt he was being enveloped
with some type of aura of Kedusha,
and he broke down in tears,
crying and pleading
to the Ribono shel Olam,
to help him,
to bring him closer.
And he truly felt
for that Shemoneh Esrei
a tremendous קרבת אלוקים,
closeness to Hashem.
The Shemoneh Esrei
lasted him an hour and a half,
and as the bochur himself said:
When I finished that Shemoneh Esrei,
I didn't have to
go back to the Mashgiach.
I was in a much better place.
,מוריי ורבותיי
we all have our challenges,
we all have our Nisyonos.
But let us make
some type of Kabbalah,
that we will not give in
to the Yetzer Hara,
whether it's ten days,
ten weeks, ten hours,
or however long
each person knows that they can do,
and a little bit more.
And if we do
what we're supposed to do,
then the Mesillas Yesharim promises us,
We will all be able to experience
that קרבת אלוקים לי טוב.