The Cancelled Meeting | Rabbi Nachum Binder

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I want to share a story that I once heard from Maran Rosh HaYeshiva, R’ Elya Ber Wachtfogel shlit”a. In the mid-90s, there was a Bochur who, as he was getting older, Shidduchim wasn’t going, started experiencing tremendous Nisyonos in Shemiras Einayim. Walking down the street, anywhere he went, was a tremendous difficulty for him, and he gave in to the Yetzer Hara time and time again. Until he reached a point where he felt he was totally lost. A friend of his tried to encourage him to go talk to the Lakewood Mashgiach, R’ Nosson Wachtfogel z”l, and maybe get some Chizuk. He didn't really think anything would happen, but begrudgingly he agreed. After telling over the story, saying over the situation to the Mashgiach, the Mashgiach told him: I want to talk to you, but I need ten days. I need that you should be Mekabel on yourself that for the next ten days, you will not look where you're not supposed to look, you will not do what you're not supposed to do. Ten clean days and then come back to me and we can talk. Day one went by, day two, day three, and the Nisyonos were getting very hard.

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1. 0:04I want to share a story that I once heard from Maran Rosh HaYeshiva, R’ Elya…
2. 0:36and maybe get some Chizuk. He didn't really think anything would happen, but begrudgingly he agreed.…
3. 1:07But a word is a word, and he kept on going. As day six, day seven,…
4. 1:38but all of a sudden, in the middle of Shemoneh Esrei, he experienced a feeling that…
5. 2:08and as the bochur himself said: When I finished that Shemoneh Esrei, I didn't have to…
6. 2:43We will all be able to experience that קרבת אלוקים לי טוב.…

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