The Power of Sight | Rabbi Naftali Horowitz

foreign to safeguard something comes from how much we value it to me it was an eye-opener no pun intended to how powerful is sight in America we know we can look at almost anything we want so long as we don't touch it the fact of the matter is that yiddishkai tells us otherwise posix says that when Joseph brings Ephraim and Asha to Yakov avinu to bless them the Ina is through who had his eyes were heavy from age and he couldn't see so what does he do he brings a Friday Menasha close and the posix says he kisses them and he hugs them the supporter tells us the reason why he did this is you have to connect to that thing and that's why he hugged them and he kissed them what we see from this supporter and what we see from this pasok is the Posse starts off by saying because yakubavinu did not have the power of sight that's why he reverted to the second best thing which was a kiss and a hug to us a kiss and a hug is a much deeper connection than looking at something however the Posse tells us otherwise the Posse tells us that the way that he would have connected to them which was optimal would have been to gaze at them and look at them this is an unbelievable thing and the reason for this is because the power of touch is a power that touches the physical self of the person whereas the power of the eyes which we know is the window to the nishama is the connection of nashama when we connect to something with our eyes we have to realize we are connecting with our essence therefore the power of our eyes and the power of our sight is not something we should take for granted and just looking at something is not okay we're connecting with that thing in a deeper way than even if we reached out and touched it [Music]