No Greater Protection | Rabbi Shimon Finkelman

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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.

A young man once approached my rebbe, Rav Moshe Wolfson, zechuto yagen aleinu lechayei olam haba. He said he has a problem. He's never been to Miami in his life, and now for whatever reason he had to go. And he said to Rav Wolfson, he knows Miami is a vacation spot, the weather is warm, and there'll be big nisyones with shmiras einayim. He's not sure he can handle it. And this is what Rav Wolfson told him. He said, "You know, I started my career as a elementary school rebbe, and I loved teaching Yiddishe kinderlach. And loved teaching Yiddishe kinderlach. And then I developed laryngitis, and for 2 years I could not teach. But I had to support my family, so I became a watchmaker. And I had to travel the subway and walk through the streets of Manhattan and go to the office where I worked. And besides the shmiras einayim issues getting to work, I had another problem. My boss had the radio blaring all day long, and it disturbed me very much. So I came up with a solution. Every morning before I left for work, I chose a topic in Torah to focus on, to

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1. 0:06A young man once approached my rebbe, Rav Moshe Wolfson, zechuto yagen aleinu lechayei olam haba.…
2. 0:36loved teaching Yiddishe kinderlach. And then I developed laryngitis, and for 2 years I could not…
3. 1:06chose a topic in Torah to focus on, to think about. And I taught myself to…
4. 1:36ruchniyus than all my years in yeshiva. And therefore, he told the young man, "If you…
5. 2:06saseh, but the truth is, for the mitzvah of shmiras einayim with lo saseh of tishuru…
6. 2:38look. The Torah will protect us from that. As we say and we sing on Simchas…

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