Pick Yourself Up | Rabbi Avrum Mordche Malach

מורי ורבותי, וימאן! Vayimaen, Rabosai, did you ever notice that the Trup, the טעמי הנגינה on the word Vayimaen is a Shalsheles? Which means when we hear the Ba’al Koreh, Parshas Vayeshev, leyening the Torah: Vayimaen, it goes like this, Vayimaen. What is this? What is the Shalsheles all about? Shalsheles, Rabosai, shows us Aliyas and Yeridas. Ups and downs, ups and downs. Let's look at ourselves. Our main challenge in the Inyan of Shmiras Ha’einayim is we remember our past. We remember how many times we fell through already, and we decide, You know what? I'm not מסוגל for this thing. I'm not built for it, I'm not meant for it. That's exactly what the Yetzer Hara tries to do with us. Listen, you're not for this. You're not for this. You cannot control yourself so many times. Let me ask you, how many times have you started guarding your eyes and you fell through? A lot, right? You remember as a bocher, you started, by the Bar Mitzvah. You won't look at anything and then you fell through. You fell through. So what happens to us after a period of time we decide, you know what? I'm not meant for it. That's it. Let my eyes roll and let my eyes see whatever they want to see and that's it. Vayimaen works with Aliyas and Yeridas, we have to be very clear about it. Yes, we have our Yeridas. We have our times that we fall. But Vayimaen means let's pick ourselves up again and let's do a fresh Vayimaen. Let's start a Vayimaen from frish. We're now in the beginning of summer, and everybody knows what the word Summer is all about. Summer brings with it so many challenges in Shmiras Einayim. And here we are again with a Simcha and being Mekabel on ourselves to be guarding our eyes again.