What Do I Have Eyes For? | Rabbi Uren Reich

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A good friend of mine in Lakewood here, R’ Moshe Dovid Stein shlit”a, told me a remarkable story that his father told him about his early years in Slutsk. R’ Moshe Dovid’s father z”l came to Slutsk as a young boy and when he came, R’ Isser Zalman Meltzer and his Yeshiva had left Slutsk, and together with them R’ Leizer Shach, who was a Talmid of the Yeshiva. And yet he said that the boys in the town would speak reverently about the days that they had amongst them R’ Leizer, the Masmid, that's how the boys talked about him. His התמדה was legendary, and the children remembered different stories about his התמדה, his incredible שקידת התורה. R’ Moshe Dovid’s father once heard from the Shamash in the town a beautiful episode. In those days, they didn't have electrical lights, of course, and everyone needed candles to learn late at night. And the more affluent Bochurim had candles that were smooth

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1. 0:06A good friend of mine in Lakewood here, R’ Moshe Dovid Stein shlit”a, told me a…
2. 0:36about the days that they had amongst them R’ Leizer, the Masmid, that's how the boys…
3. 1:07and the light burned well, and those that couldn't afford it, had messy wax, so that…
4. 1:39the young Leizer Shach, who was the future Gadol HaDor, R’ Leizer replied, R’ Chatzkl, what…
5. 2:09Hashem Yisborach gave it to us for ראיות קדושות, for והיו עיניך רואות את מוריך, for…
6. 2:39we are justifying our having eyes. We're showing Hashem Yisborach that we understand what eyesight is…

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