Miracle Glasses | Rabbi Menachem Schmelczer

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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.

In the town of the Pnei Yehoshua lived a young boy who couldn't see. He so badly wanted to see the words, but he couldn't. So in place of that, he used to go to the bookcases and feel the Sefarim and kiss the Sefarim. And sometimes he'd pull out a Sefer and caress its holy pages. One day, he pulled out a Sefer, and he felt something fall from its pages. He leaned down, felt around, and he picked up a pair of glasses. He playfully put it on his eyes and miraculously, he was able to see for the first time in his life. He put the glasses back in the Sefer, put the Sefer back in the bookcase and ran to his father and told him about the miracle glasses. His father did some research and found out that the glasses belonged to none other than the Pnei Yehoshua himself, who used those glasses only in the confines of the Beis Medrash. A prohibited sight was never seen through those lenses. The father got permission for his son to use the glasses and he happily began to learn and see the holy words of the Torah. You know, Moshe Rabeinu, when he went to see the burning bush,

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1. 0:07In the town of the Pnei Yehoshua lived a young boy who couldn't see. He so…
2. 0:37He put the glasses back in the Sefer, put the Sefer back in the bookcase and…
3. 1:07he wanted so badly to see the holiness. Moshe Rabeinu said, I will turn away and…
4. 1:38He started to learn diligently. He enjoyed learning. He understood learning. I went over to him…
5. 2:09and he merited ואראה, he merited to see, to gaze at holiness, to understand holiness, to…

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