Special Series - Could Bilam See or Not | Rabbi David Shelby

[Music] there's a beautiful custom when a boy is putting on tiim for the first time the father takes the boy to a rabbi to his Rabbi to Great gim to put on tiim for the first time to give the boy some inspiration that he'll be able to put on tiim with excitement and fervor for the rest of his life there was one particular boy from Brooklyn New York that his father was very connected to rmo V the and he wanted to go to the Rab's presence to edit is to put on TI with his son for the first time next to the rabbi and the rabbi will give him that he'll take with him for the rest of his life the boy was so excited the father was so excited the father calls up the rabbi and the Rabbi says it sounds beautiful but wait till a week before you're planning to leave America to come to Ed to call me for the final decision and the father said no problem the father was so sure that they're going so he bought the tickets he made plans to go and the father and the boy were very very excited a week before their trip the father calls up R vosner and says rebi we're coming are we ready is everything good and the rebi tells the father I have some advice for you he says I believe for your particular son that he should not come to edit Isel to put t on for the first time the father was taking aback how come rebi why he said because every situation is different but I believe to take a boy on such a spiritual trip is the most beautiful thing ever but we have to take into effect that on the airplane there are people and things that a boy of your son's um position should not be seeing in the airport in the traveling and everything that's going on I believe that your son should not come to edit Isel he'll put on tiine in America for the first time I could bless him over the phone and he'll get inspiration the father couldn't believe it and he tells the rebi what do I tell my son and also the tickets were thousands of dollars RAR pauses for a moment and he said take the tickets that you have and I want you to buy a most beautiful frame and I want you to take those tickets and put them in the picture frame and leave them in your home and put on the bottom these tickets were a sacrifice for a young man who's putting on toim for the first time to know the importance of that a boy as pure as his this boy should never see anything and every time he sees those tickets he will always be remembered on the importance of we have Bak coming up we know bam he calls himself a someone who has something different with his eyes and our rabbis asked what one of his eyes were different than a normal eye Rashi writes that he had no eye that he couldn't see Rabel writes that he could see extra good with that eye and our rabbis ask usually when you have different opinions they're somewhat um similar they're just not exact but over here it's one extreme to the other you have Rashi saying he couldn't see at all and we have R benel saying that he could see from one end of the world to the other and the rabbis explain and I heard over from the L of a rebbi he should live and be well he said the whole reason why RAB benel says that he had extra special powers in his eye and he was able to see things that other people can't see is because he couldn't see physically and with that eye since he didn't see bad things since he didn't see things in the world he was able to see with extra power and that's why it's not really a far-fetched M between one opinion and the other the lesson for all of us is including myself is that we have to watch our eyes as we always know is a very holy thing our soul is what the eye sees it makes an impression on our soul and by protecting our eyes and doing what we're supposed to Hashem will give us blessings and we'll be able to have a pure Soul just like the story with the rabbi we'll always have reminders ahead of us we have beautiful organizations that make awareness how people should have sh and in Merit of people having the Shem will bring the mashia and we'll all be inah amen [Music]