Special Series - Meriting to See the Shechinah | Rabbi Mordechai Groner

[Music] there's a fascinating medua says whoever sees and he doesn't sustain his eyes from it the med is amazing the the says our eyes are not an our R we walk down a street we look around we're in a store we're in a public gathering and our eyes wander and if our eyes see something that it's not supposed to then we notice something we're not supposed to see but we don't sustain we quickly look away so two points first of all sometimes we by mistake see something but the moment we see something we're not supposed to we don't let our eyes sustain from it the L of sustain Z to sustain it's fascinating because when you eat it's called food the eyes sustains itself from looking at something which is an emotional and psychological sustenance and a person doesn't he's not sustaining himself he does not sustain himself he looks away that person is that that person who understands he faces the Temptation he faces The N he faces the difficulty and he pulls himself away that person is to that's what the med is teaching us so imagine in our daily lives we walk around and some people not see anything to be able to look down in their and some people when we look around and we see but if we say to ourselves uh-uh where to it was a story with one of theas the one that unfortunately was killed and they once came to him about a child who was taken for ransom if I'm not mistaken I think it was Mexico and they brought him a map of Mexico and they said rabba Rabbi harav this child was taken and we don't know they're asking for millions of dollars for ransom so he said let me see the map and he looks at the map and he points and he says the child is here he's never been to Mexico RAB abater and he said that's where the child is so someone once said to him how could that be that you're able to see he says cuz when one watches their eyes physical barriers don't hold it back and he was known as sad even as a b used to walk around used to put things in his glasses are very high levels of sh the medis is talking to all of us if we're to watch our eyes may we all be to of the ultimate [Music]