You just won a million dollars!

You just won a million dollars! A Mashgiach once told me that a Bochur asked him on Chanuka night for some Chizuk. So the Mashgiach asked him, "If you had just found out that you won a million dollars, would you still need Chizuk? "No" answered the Bochur. "Well", continued the Mashgiach, "if someone offered you a million dollars to sell them the Mitzva of the Chanuka lighting that you just did, would you sell it to them?". "I don't think so", answered the Bochur. "So that means", said the Mashgiach, "that you just did something that is more precious to you than a million dollars! And you still feel you need Chizuk??" So if someone offered us a million dollars to sell them the merit that we earn when we turn our eyes away from seeing bad and give a Nachas Ruach to the Almighty Creator, would we sell it? No! So we are winning millions every time we walk in the street and guard our eyes! We should be dancing through the streets!

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THE GIFT OF SIGHT GUE

The Gift of Sight
Do we appreciate it enough?

 

I read once an article in the Hamodia about a twenty year old boy who had a genetic disease and lost his eye sight without warning, in the span of just a few days. Obviously this was very difficult for him at first, but now a year later, he tells how losing his eye sight has made him realize what is really important in life. He can no longer party and get drunk with his friends like he used to, and he doesn't want to anymore. He no longer sees people by their looks, but rather by who they are. He has come a lot closer to Torah and to G-d, and has found much more meaning in his life.

 

We should never, G-d forbid, have to undergo such an experience to make us "open our eyes" to what is truly important in life. Let us instead appreciate the incredible gift of eye sight, and not G-d forbid abuse it. How fortunate are we to be able to see all of G-d's beautiful creation, to experience life and to be able to take care of ourselves by seeing the world around us! But let us not take this gift lightly. When going out into the street, let us turn our eyes downwards and not allow ourselves to abuse this tremendous gift.

IMAGINATION /DIMYON

Imagination

G-d gave us human beings the gift of imagination, something that no other life form has been endowed with. Without imagination we wouldn't be able to function as human beings, to invent, to progress and to search for the truths of the universe and for G-d.

Yet, at the same time, imagination is responsible for most of the Yetzer Hara's power over us. The reason why we "lust" for things that we know we can never have and that are bad for us, is because we imagine that we could have them, and we imagine that they are good for us.

R' Nachman says that the name of the Yetzer Hara in our day and age is "Dimyon" - Imagination.

We need to learn to use this wonderful gift of G-d only for the right things. For example, to imagine the greatness of Hashem. And on Shavu'os, we can use the power of our imagination to picture that we are standing before Har Sinai and seeing the entire mountain on fire, with heavy smoke rising to the heavens. We can imagine that we are listening to the voice of Hashem, to the sounds of thunder, lightening and Shofar blowing. We can picture the fear and awe that the Yidden felt - and try to feel it ourselves!

But when it comes to lusting and fantasies, we need to turn off our imagination and internalize that all these imaginary desires have no connection to us. For in reality, having all these imaginary desires would be bad for us, bad for the people involved and bad for the world.

So next time we catch ourselves fantasizing about something bad, let's try to train ourselves how to turn off our imaginations and live in REALITY instead. Let us use the gift of our imaginations only for things that will bring us closer to Hashem!

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YOSEF HATZDIK

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  In the Dungeon   In prison, Yosef's problems were far from over. This frenzied woman still would not leave him alone. She visited the prison regularly to weaken his resolve and to tempt him to succumb. She warned him in explicit terms of the consequences of his obstinacy. "So you think this is the last of your woes?" she menaced. "If you don't accede, I will have you bound in iron chains, bent over and unable to stand upright. I will have you blinded," she went on and on. Yosef was as firm, unmoved, and unimpressed as ever, still joyously serving his Maker with love and awe. Going all out to cajole him to look at her even just that once, even for a split second, she found herself powerless against the iron resolve in the wellsprings of his noble soul and never did he mar the perfection of his purity. Now, is it a wonder that we speak of him as Yosef Hatzaddik? Turnabout   Suddenly, there was an astounding turnabout in Yosef's fortune. After twelve long years, his eyes and soul still absolutely clean and untarnished, Yosef was hurried from his incarceration. By order of the king he was hastily groomed, suitably attired, and rushed to the palace to stand before Pharaoh, mighty King of Egypt. At dizzying speed, he was raised from wretched prisoner to the rank of second-in-command of the whole Egyptian Kingdom. The king's signet ring was placed on his finger; he was arrayed in linen robes and driven through the capital's streets. Can you picture the scene in ancient Egypt awaiting the gala procession and entourage? Crowds of jubilant citizens fill the streets. The rejoicing is palpable as the throngs begin their chanting. The Midrash Rabbah (98:18) describes how the daughters of the noblemen peeped out of their windows and threw their fine jewellery, piece by piece, into his royal chariot in the hope that this mesmerizingly handsome new viceroy might chance to look at them. Throughout all this exotic pomp and pageantry, Yosef's eyes remained lowered. His self-discipline is timeless. Targum Yerushalmi tells us how the daughters of the aristocrats exclaimed to one another in sheer amazement, "Oh, see this pious Yosef who does not follow his eyes or the temptations of his heart." Yosef's holy eyes themselves told it all - 100% innocence, pristine perfection like the clearest, most sparkling diamonds. Chazal tell us Yaakov's unstinting praise: "My son," he said proudly, "you did not glance at a single one of those women."

 

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