Open Your Eyes - R' Binyomin Weinrib

foreign we think about closing one's eyes that I need to avert my gaze when I'm involved in the world when I'm outside when I'm seeing things which are immoral and appropriate I need to close my eyes and separate myself from seeing things which are immoral things which are going to drag manashama down yet we find that who's the ultimate symbolism of kadusha the ultimate symbolism of smear Sanam and shmir sabris the pasta Compares him to a fish but yet tells us that the unique property of a fish over other animals is that a fish has an edible a fish never closes their eyes when a fish is sleeping its eyes are open when the fishes awake its eyes are open regardless of what it's doing its eyes are always open yet one can ask shouldn't he be compared to an animal whose eyes are always closed he's compared to a fish which eyes are always open in the and the answer is yes the chimir Sanam doesn't just mean to close one's eyes it doesn't just mean that I avert my gaze and I make sure that I don't look at things which are inappropriate it also means that I open my eyes to being able to see things that have more depth one of the reasons why we get dragged into the world of tyvis and we get dragged into world of pagame is because we're looking at things which are superficial we're walking down the street and we're looking at something which captures our attention but has no real value there's no depth to it there's no relationship there it's just something which is catching our attention superficially When We Begin by not just closing our eyes to things which are superficial but Opening Our Eyes to things which have meaning things which have depth things which have anemius to it and not being involved in the world who says I want something which has value I want a relationship which is real and genuine I want a connection to the robotic which is real and genuine and we have that I which is able to see beyond the surface beyond the external then we're able to ensure that we don't get caught up and our eyes are not grabbed by everything outside everything external everything which is superficial and therefore yes every one of us need to close our eyes to evil while at the same time opening up our eyes to be able to see the world for more than it just appears superficially [Music]