Rabbi Yitzchok Bistritsky: Timeless Tidbits - Guarding your Eyes by Remembering who you are

famous story a farmer he got a letter from a lawyer in the big city that there's an inheritance waiting for him a large inheritance so he shared the great news with his friends and he said goodbye to them i'm traveling into the city and he gets his horse and buggy and his friend tells him you're a rich man what are you going with a horse and buggy for why don't you just take the train this is a train i never was on a train so he says no there's always the first time take a train he goes to buy a ticket in the post office for the train ticket and the man behind the counter asked him so what would you like a third class ticket or a second class ticket so he says what's the difference he says that the second class ticket you know there's upholster seats it's a little more roomy so you ask them what's the first class ticket so the man tells them a first-class ticket that's for the special people you get at your own cabin and you're driving travel and luxury but a ticket's expensive he says yeah i want to buy the first class ticket okay he buys the ticket a couple days later goes to the train station and he's first time he doesn't know where to go he just follows the crowd follows the crowd into the train pushes finds himself a seat sits down after a short while he falls asleep and all of a sudden he feels a shove from the conductor and the conductor is telling me hey ticket ticket so he says yeah i have a ticket i have a first class ticket and all the passengers burst out laughing she says no no don't laugh and he takes out of his pocket a first class ticket and the conductor looks at him he says what are you doing here why aren't you in first class so he says i just followed the crowd i went with everyone else so he says you're not everyone else you're special heritage gave out a book now it's called positive vision it's on smears and i am so they bring this muscle and they bring it for smears and i am we all have to know we're not just anyone else we're special we're princess let's not degrade our status if we look where we shouldn't if we get nisba the hashbaa of the goliath if they contaminate our eyes with their terrible things with the terrible ashkoffas then we're not princes we have to realize we're first class people we're special we're not everyone else each and every one of us every eid [Music] i saw a story from the satmireba the samurai but he had some hasidim that came into williamsburg from the east side so one time they were standing after the dish and they were schmoozing and the slap rabbit passed by and he asked him what's going on what are you talking about so they said it was schmoozing that it says that when people travel to rubber so whenever you travel all the ways the highways the paths the roads it's going to be put on your skill on the side of the mitzvas and that's going to help weigh down the mitzvah side so they said that but we came from the east side we came on the williamsburg bridge you know it's very heavy the windsor bridge is a it's a great structure it's a lot of metal and it's a lot there trains on it with cars everything's going to put on our scale so this said yeah that's all fine and dandy how heavy is it when there was no smears and i am if you looked at something that you weren't supposed to on the way that weighs down how heavy is such area but let's think of the other side how heavy lotovy is when we are misgabri when we strengthen ourselves not to look at something even one time when we withstand the temptation hawaii hashem has from us how heavy is it on the mitzvah side that surma that smears and i am that guarding your eyes let's remember we are princes we are special we are first class passengers we're just not anybody we are special