Smile! You're on Camera | Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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The opening of this shiur, in Vayimaen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Never in the history of the world have we been watched as much as we are being watched today. Everywhere you go, there's a camera on you. Not just if someone happens to be videoing you on their phone. If you're in a cab, the cab driver has a camera facing the passengers. If you're standing at someone's front door, their Ring, or whatever they have, Nest, is looking at you, making sure that it's recording your every move. Walk down the street, look at the corners, look at the telephone poles, at the traffic lights. There’s cameras, cameras, cameras. Drive past through a red light. Boom! A flash goes off. In fact, if you use Waze, a lot of times it warns you on the Waze app, Speed trap reported ahead. Cameras are watching what you're doing. My friends, I want to share with you this thought. You know, it's not always easy making sure that we do the right thing, that we look at the right thing, that our eyes, our thoughts are in the right place.

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1. 0:05Never in the history of the world have we been watched as much as we are…
2. 0:35look at the telephone poles, at the traffic lights. There’s cameras, cameras, cameras. Drive past through…
3. 1:06But, my friends, what if you knew that someone was watching? What if you knew it…
4. 1:36An eye is always watching. When Yosef was in a difficult spot and he was almost…
5. 2:06your Rebbe is here, your grandfather, the people you look up to? What if you imagined…
6. 2:36to tell the Yetzer Hara to pack his bags and try and pick on somebody else.…

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