A Mineful of Diamonds | Rabbi David Shelby

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I was lucky many many times to visit Baba Elazar Abuhatzeira alav hashalom. Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira was known for shmirat einayim something unfathomable. He wore a hood over his head and it covered his eyes. And when somebody would come near him and he felt good energy, then he would lift it and look at their face and talk to them. But if he felt energy from people far far away, nobody that we know, he would leave the nobody that we know, he would leave the hood over his eyes to watch his eyes to never ever see something he's not supposed to. On a deeper level, eyesight is not physical, it's spiritual. Our eye is physical, but our eyesight is spiritual. And the holier you keep your eyes, the more you see in this world. Well, one day somebody comes to him for a biracha. They wanted to buy a diamond

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1. 0:04I was lucky many many times to visit Baba Elazar Abuhatzeira alav hashalom. Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira…
2. 0:35nobody that we know, he would leave the hood over his eyes to watch his eyes…
3. 1:07a biracha. They wanted to buy a diamond mine in Africa. They brought the maps to…
4. 1:37buy." The fellow says, "But rabbi, that's all swamp. That's nothing. No one would buy there."…
5. 2:07diamonds in one place and not in another place. The answer is, as mentioned, the more…
6. 2:38everybody's looking at it. It's so intriguing." He said, "Rabbi, I trained my eyes, my body,…
7. 3:08you're able to control your desires, that's when you will be safe from physical damage, from…

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