Focus On Today | Rabbi Shlomo Landau

You know, when I was approached to make videos for Vayimaen about Shemras Ha’einayim, right away, it put me into the mindset of Shemras Ha’einayim. I started to learn a little bit, to research, and slowly but surely, I started finding incredible things about Shemras Ha’einayim. But more importantly, I started being more careful myself with Shemras Ha’einayim. And I'm going to be honest, Baruch Hashem, I don't struggle in the larger areas of Shemras Ha’einayim, but I'm human like everybody else and I'm always looking around and that's just how I was living my life. But slowly but surely, by watching the daily video, by learning a little bit more about Shemras Ha’einayim, I started to be able to control where I'm looking, and I'm going to be honest, sometimes it's a Nisayon, but I use some of the strategies that some of the speakers have spoken about. I’ll look the other way and I'll say: Ribono shel Olam, I need this. I'm asking you for this. Please kick back. And the truth is that it's working and it's working magnificently. I just want to add one tiny little layer, because I'm already a few weeks into this, and there's this thing that's nagging at me. It's kind of looming in the background. Like, am I going to live the rest of my life having to constantly work on my Shemras Ha’einayim or is it going to come to me at some point that I'm just going to have Shemiras Ha’einayim? You know, I don't know the answer to that question, but I know that the more I think about years ahead, the more difficult it becomes for me to be Shomer Einayim. But if I just think about today. I'm going here, I'm going there. I want to be careful with Shemiras Ha’einayim. Somehow the Ribono shel Olam gives me the Siyata D’shmaya to get through that episode, to get through that day. And you know what? I'm seeing the Ribono shel Olam’s Yad Hashem in my life in a way that I've never seen it before. So for those of us that are a few weeks in, it's day by day, it's event by event, it's place by place. Keep strong, keep doing it. And B’ezer Hashem, the Ribono shel Olam will keep giving us all the things that we ask him for.