Sefer Tomer Devorah: Chapter 2 - Emulating the 5th Middah of Kesser - Eyes Only to See Good

this tour class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good afternoon everyone hope everyone's having a good day um we continue in the State Fair timer we're in parag Bays and we are up to hakamishes the fifth way of emulating what is called midasar um we mentioned Minister Caster of course is the Todd the highest of all the Midas and therefore there are many phenomenon of Medusa kesar and um as we've been doing just to review the first telemeda successors the middle of anivos because it's always looking down and only looking to be native so it's in the position the same way Midas are sort of positioned focused downward so the Mida of aniva also dictates that one should always have a humble opinion number two the second aspect of Caster of course refers to one's thoughts in one's mind one should emulate the media sake which is always uh it's sort of a pre-exists before there's Midas haddin and therefore one's mind should be clear of of uh thoughts of negativity one's mind should be uh occupied with communal and of course at all times one's mind should be occupied in the learning of Torah like we said from that his hope for since he was 20 years old he did not allow his mind to wander just to uh float around but his mind was always focused on Torah the third aspect of cassar is the forehead the forehead should not exhibit any imidas haddin but instead of the forehead should always be looking to show favor and to show Good Will yesterday we learned about the ears that the ears should be focused on hearing only the good and today we're going to speak about the inayam enov foreign one should not gaze at all on anything disgusting so I think this has many elements to it we all know the importance of kadusha soinayam of guarding one's eyes not to see anything inappropriate for somebody to gaze at something inappropriate it's actually a laugh in the Torah of Allah and there are always a number of very interesting facets of the importance of guarding one's eyes but we're going to learn a new one today I think in the past we've mentioned that I'm sorry for quotes from Israel that a person has two sets of eyes one is physical eyes one is spiritual eyes and the way they work is their their Converse in other words the more you use your physical eyes the less your spiritual eyes work that's the concept that a baby in utero could see from one end of the world to the other because since his physical eyes are closed his spiritual eyes are functioning properly so one whenever one encounters a uh challenge in the Scion a way to overcome that is to recognize that if somebody is able so to speak to look away and close one's eyes to something immoral that will strengthen their the and we've spoken out in the past how actually when one overcomes a challenge in terms of one is being mikhayama Mitzvah at a time of a Mitzvah it's a tremendous and one could actually offer a Fila at that time and say revanish I'm overcoming this challenge please uh misspello help me in such and such an area and it's an ace Rod sign similar to what says that after we finish saying which is an Israel which is the mitsody because since we just did a Mitzvah which is whenever you do a Mitzvah it's an ace rot sign it's an appropriate time to Davin that's what rabbin says when a woman lights candles Friday night right so she's misspella why is she misspella because she's being mikaima Mitzvah at that moment it is an ace wrought sign but now we're learning a new dimension of uh shimiro senayam by the way just another very powerful thought um there's a safer Darke had Shiva um I think I have it here uh yeah was written by one of the tamidam of the ramami Pano and he he says an amazing thing we know that in uh assuming Sublime person is considered as if they're dead so certainly if somebody could see and they choose to close their eyes and not to see something inappropriate they're rendering themselves like a blind but they're running around themselves dead and we know when a person dies so it's so if somebody has a challenge and the science is look at something immoral and they turn away they're rendering themselves Asuma it's all of ones are very nice well what a you're making yourself a mess but today we're learning a new um Dimension and that Dimension is that if one wants his eyes to emulate the eyes of akadesh Miracle the eyes of our who do never gaze at anything inappropriate or debased or lowly the eyes of that are always focused on antiva and Mitzvahs so to speak evil does not enter the purview so if someone is challenged with an asylon a person could tell themselves look I'm created in the image of Hashem just like the eyes of God so to speak only look at varam taivim I'm not gonna look at that that's not something that I want to focus on but by the way according that this extends even Beyond let's say immorality let's say you're walking down the street you see even uh if a man sees another man who's who's perhaps dressed inappropriately or is in a very dis presenting themselves in a very debased way so according to midday rice so there's no Israel for uh yeah but still this is a different concept the concept is that you don't want you want your eyes to be utilized only for something moral upstanding proper and even if this is not technically arios but it's something uh Unbecoming it doesn't matter what it is whatever kind of picture it is sometimes you walk in the streets somebody's wearing uh a t-shirt that has lyrics on or has words on it and they're inappropriate you don't want to look at that you don't want to defile your eyes you don't want to lower your eyes that's the concept of emulating the meat of cancer with one's eyes the eyes should always be open to do what to oversee and to mercifulim on the downtrodden according to your ability in other words it's not enough just to help people but you should gaze intently at their situation which means doesn't mean you just stare at them it means you should focus and pay attention and can say when you see the the um difficult state of uh Afflicted person oh yeah it's a made of cloud don't figuratively seal your eyes means use your mind's eye to contemplate Allah in accordance with your ability and you should try to arouse mercy upon him before heaven what's today what's today a minor yes I believe tomorrow is the yard site of the closenberger Reba I had this close to Serenity Israel to visit his cover in Netanya the first time in my life and closenberger Reba aside from being a great hero of Cloudy Israel he was a great Shepherd of Clans because I've heard Clips when in middle of his McGillis Esther he would break down crying to try to be milots Esther in middle of the middle of this was one of his that he was always trying to defend the Jewish people so if you see somebody in a distressing situation many times you're not able to help you can't help everybody you don't sometimes even have ways to help somebody else but everyone could dive in for another person so use your eyes to contemplate the difficult situation somebody else may be in at the very least Don't Close Your Eyes but think about it at least to say replenish them so and so is a difficult situation please help him out um and maybe you know somebody else who could help them so this is all part of using your eyes latova to see good things distance yourself from noticing evil that means like this sometimes you need to notice evil if you're in a position where you could make it good so that in a way is called using your eyes for the good you're not noticing the evil because you have a desire to see evil you'd prefer not to even notice that but you're looking at it to be able to render it toiva that's also considered using your eyelativa but you should sort of in general you know look the other way would say that it's enough to know but you don't have to let them know that you know you don't always have to be seeing everything that others do wrong why just to emulate just like the ion high is open um and I'm always focused on the good so um here we have it this is the fifth way of emulating the media of Casa so to speak only notice the good I remember one time when I was um a bachar I went with my grandfather to a certain shul and I remember walking into the shul and feeling it was stuffy and cramped and people were I don't know schmoozing around and I remember my grandfather told me wow what a warm environment the Shoal is I said huh and that's exactly what this meter is there are different ways of looking at a situation so the middle of uh enough is to to notice the good and so to speak not notice the the derogatory aspects of it okay Rabbi say thank you for listening have a great day everyone baby can I have a question yeah sure you reminded me of uh you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com