You Are Normal | Rabbi Naftali Horowitz

[Music] Many years ago, I met a very very great Makov in Israel. I needed a specific Yeshua at the time and he gave me a very powerful schooler. The school of law was that I go into a room with 18 candles and I say a chapter and tell him pav 86 and each time I say it I light a candle and I do so in the memory of the great Tanya Masar but I had no idea who Masibares was. I really didn't know who I was connecting to. Well, I found a beautiful medish. The med passes tells us a story of massares. Gumar says that masares were sitting and learning and his eyes shown like the sun cuz he had never gazed upon a forbidden sight. The sultan sees him and he's jealous. So he comes to and he says who is mass to you and says to me he is like a sadic. He is a pure sadic. And the son says allow me allow me to cause him to sin. And hashem says fine but you will never succeed. The medus tells us that the satan disguised himself as the most beautiful woman that ever lived. And she stood before masares and as soon as she did he turned his head the other way. So the son followed and went to the other side where he was looking and he turned his eyes the other way. And this went on for some time and masar realized that he was going to succumb. So he called one of his talid and he said bring me a hat spear. and he took the hot spear and with that he poked out his eyes. At that moment the med says the sudden dissolved into dust saw what happened and he sends Malik to heal him. And says to Malik, it's not worth it for me to have back the power of my eyes if it means that I am going to see something I should not. So comes back to and sends him back and says tell Masares that I am going to make sure that that never happens and then and only then Masi allowed Malikall to heal him. This was the underpinnings of this schula connecting to a Tana who was so pure that he was willing to give up the power of his eyesight in order not to succumb to a forbidden sight. I walked away from this medish which tremendous. The was that if knew that he has to ultimately have his eyes poked out or have enough from not to see a surah. Then I know that I'm normal. I know that we're all normal. that if Mas was tested in this way and that he himself knew that he would succumb so I don't have to feel like a piece of garbage when I faced this test every day. I once heard a story about the kafetim who was sitting in a man's house and a maid servant kept coming in and serving and she wasn't dressed appropriately and after the second or third time the turned to the man and says do you think I'm a malik why do you keep putting this test in front of me the same thing the with all of his kaduca with all of his he knew that this is a test that was very very difficult to overcome it's important important for everybody to realize that we all face this test. If we don't think we face this test, we're living in utter denial or we probably need to see a good doctor because it is the human nature to be curious and it is the human nature to want to look at things that attract our eyes and we should just know that there's nothing wrong with us. What's wrong with us is when we give up.