There's No Such Thing as Just Looking | Rabbi Raymond Beyda

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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.

Eyes are an amazing gift. Hashem gave them to us so that we can better serve Him. We wake up in the morning and one of the first Berachot of the 100 we’re required is פוקח עיוורים, He opens our eyes. Realizing that, as a recipient of such a gift, I personally should be more careful. It's pretty difficult in this world today. I mean, I grew up when you went to a store and the salesman was bothering, you said: Just looking. Well, I found out as I aged, there's no such thing as ‘just looking’. I'll tell you a story that'll prove it to you. It was in Poland. An important officer was murdered and a great reward was put out by the government for whoever could turn in the perpetrator. Yet there were no takers. Nobody. Until a professor stepped forward. He said: I can find the murderer if you'll open the grave. They didn't know what to do, so they allowed it. They opened the grave, he opened the corpse’s eyes,

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1. 0:06Eyes are an amazing gift. Hashem gave them to us so that we can better serve…
2. 0:36there's no such thing as ‘just looking’. I'll tell you a story that'll prove it to…
3. 1:08and he took out a camera and took a picture. It was clear as soon as…
4. 1:38The next thing you see erases that and pushes it back into your Neshama. And that's…
5. 2:08we were all scared, we were frightened. So we didn't go to Shul and we didn't…
6. 2:39and to spend more time looking at a Sefer, looking at Kedushah. אותיות מחכימות. I protect…

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