The Lost Wedding Ring | Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser

ברוכים הבאים בשם השם. There is a pasuk in Yeshayahu HaNavi, Perek 33, A person that shields their eyes from evil. A little bit later in the psukim it tells us what happens with this individual, that the king, in all of his splendor, that person will be zoche to see. The great Tzaddik R’ Eliyohu Lopian said, as well, Who will be zoche to see the future Geulah? Who will be zoche to see בניין בית המקדש and משיח צדקנו? The individual that is careful with Shmiras Einayim. The Ko’ach of Shmiras Einayim brings great Bracha into our lives, Bracha in the future and Bracha right now. Years ago, I was a Choson right after Sheva Brachos. I came to the Yeshiva’s camp. They made a Kabbolas Ponim for me and the Kallah. It was wonderful. They made a Seudah. We were going to wash and my wife gives to me her ring. I took her ring. I put it in the pocket. She had to wash כדת וכדין. After the Seudah, after there was singing and dancing, it was time to go home. I went to the parking lot in order to get the car and my wife asked me: Do you have the ring? I looked all over. I looked in my pockets, I looked wherever I could, I went back to the table, I looked in the hall. Everybody began to look. Nobody could find it. We went home a couple of hours later. I cannot say that my wife complained at all, but a new Kallah, not to have her ring. I didn't have much in those days. I couldn't replace it. What could I do? I was very upset by it. It happened to be a month later, I was in Eretz Yisroel. I got a call on the telephone in the middle of the night. Rav Goldwasser. It was Rebbetzin Miller on the phone. Rebbetzin Miller said, There is one of the yungerleit in the Kollel that has found the ring. I couldn't believe it. The first thing that I did when I came back to America was to go to the Rebbetzin, who gave me over the ring. She said: You should know that the yungerman that found the ring is an individual that is very careful with Shmiras Einayim. When he walks, his Minhag is to look at the ground. One day, he was walking past the parking lot and he sees something glittering in the dirt. He bends over and he picks up the ring. The zchus of Shmiras Einayim. May we all have ברכה והצלחה in all that we do, in the zchus of trying, in the zchus of our efforts, particularly in the area of Shmiras Einayim.