A Smile in Cash | Rabbi Nachum Binder

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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.

Many of us, and especially those of us that are privileged to see and hear the Vayimaen daily, have heard many stories, and some of them wondrous stories, of people that merited tremendous Yeshuos in the merit of overcoming a Nisayon of Shmiras Einayim. I want to share a story, not such a big Yeshuah, a relatively small Yeshuah that someone had, but he clearly took it as what we would call a Schmeichel from Himmel, a smile from Hashem, telling him: Mein kind, my dear son, I'm proud of your overcoming the Nisayon. Around a week before Pesach, this friend of mine, who works on 47th Street in Manhattan, was cleaning his office. And as we tend to clean for Pesach, we tend not only to clean for Chometz, but much garbage and clutter that accumulated over the year ends up being cleaned out at that time. And as my friend finished cleaning his office, he had two garbage bags, which he wanted to take out to the dumpster, to dispose of. And as he's walking in the hallway of his office building, he was suddenly faced with a Nisayon in Shmiras Einayim.

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1. 0:05Many of us, and especially those of us that are privileged to see and hear the…
2. 0:36I'm proud of your overcoming the Nisayon. Around a week before Pesach, this friend of mine,…
3. 1:07And at that moment, with strong conviction, he said, I'm not looking. I'm looking down and…
4. 1:38Interesting. How did this end up in the garbage? He continues splitting the garbage into two…
5. 2:08it was a smaller Nisayon, but you were strong, you overcame that Nisayon. And when you're…
6. 2:38whether we see it immediately or not, the Ribono shel Olam is looking down at us,…

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