Never Let Your Guard Down | Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer

foreign [Music] he underwent a difficult emergency surgery and the recuperation was intense he was an agonizing on mitigating pain they had to transfer him to a rehab and in the rehab center the pain was relentless Indescribable sheer torturous pain I'll never forget going to visit him he's laying there in the hospital bed seeing his pain it made me in pain a nurse came in and the nurse said to him there's a TV screen right above you why don't you watch some television well distract you will divert your attention from the pain you'll feel better and he said no she said why not it's right here the TV screen is right here just watch the TV and he said no and I looked at him and he said to me I've worked so many years of minor Sharma you think I'm gonna give everything up now you think I'm going to give everything up now this was a man who had every justification or whatever rationale to turn on the TV and watch some news or watch Big Bird who refuse to he thought he may see something inappropriate this is not a rebbe this is not roshishiva it's not a roof he was about a bus that wore colorful shirts laying there agonizing pain but wouldn't allow the TV screen to be turned on come on brought his stuff huffed us tells us about York who served in the basement in the Holy Temple for 80 years he was at Sonic he was a great man until suddenly Lamar says NASA sudoki he became a Saturday he deviated he went astray as it happened says ramushov khabrina kabrina you know what it may mean he made himself into its Sadiq he said 80 years I did it I wasn't Mitchell I'm good he let his guard down that's what it means NASA Suzuki he thought of himself as exotic and as soon as that happened he lost him we're not to look at animals with selam alaikin were all created in the Divine image of the rebellion of God were holy we can't give in to our base and state because then we're relegating ourselves we're confining ourselves well living ourselves we're taking our Divinity our humanity and turning it into animalistic never let your guard down be holy