The Eye Doctor | Rabbi Yechiel Spero

[Music] A friend of mine is the son of an eye doctor. He's a well-known optometrist in the New York area. And throughout his career, he has been zed to treat 10,000 patients. Out of the 10,000 patients, two of them were very unique. And he explained that the human eyeball ages. And when you look at a pair of eyes, you're able to see the age of that individual. Except two people that he examined. One was the zutucha. The second kashwab. Those two older individuals when they were old men had a very young set of eyes. And the reason is because when someone is careful with their eyes, he only looks at appropriate things and he does not look at anything that is inappropriate then his eyes stay pure forever. And the reason for that is brought in a safer. You know, it's interesting. If somebody gets the slightest piece of sand in his eye, it can cause him tremendous, tremendous pain and can be very, very damaging for the eyeball. Why is that so? He says because the eye is not gashmas. It's rnus. It is a window to your nishama. Your nishama comes through the eye. If you had a tiny little baby and there was sand all around, you would protect it with all of your might. Our namas are our precious little babies. They are pure and untainted. And if we protect them, they can stay young forever. But if we bring our eyes through sandstorms of immorality, then shalom, our eyes will age and our nishamas can become stained. We have to do our utmost to make sure that we protect that which is most precious and most pure. [Music]