A Torah shiur on the concept of Vayimaen and Shmiras Einayim.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Fischel Schachter’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
So you know the story of the old lady that got into a car. She says: I used to drive all the time, but these new fangled things, like, it's ridiculous. I put the car into reverse and a movie comes on. And such a violent movie, people running in all different directions and garbage cans flying. The Yetzer Hara wants us to look back and say you blew it. You tried to be good and you blew it. You were slapped in the face. Give in. So I had a friend of mine I remember in Yeshiva days and he said: I'm not going home. I'm not going home for Yom Tov, because if I go home, I'm going to have certain Nisyonos. And he stayed in the dorm and his family gave him a hard time, and he said: I'm staying in the dorm. And he came to me Chol Hamoed and he was so broken. And he said, You think in the dorm I was okay? I blew it in the dorm. So I have my family angry at me and I blew it. Between a person and his fellow and between a person and Hashem. So we went to our Maggid Shiur and he told us a story. R’ Moshe Soloveitchik was a great Rav in Switzerland, was once a roommate of R’ Chaim Kanievsky. And R’ Moshe was sent out to go to the different Moshavim around Lomza and ask them to send their kids to Yeshiva. He was very successful.
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- 1:38So here I am in Yeshiva and a friend of mine calls me and says: Listen,…
- 2:08No seatbelt. What do I learn from this? I said: Don't ask me advice? Then he…
- 2:39you would have never survived. And he gave me an opportunity to speak and I said,…
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