Rabbi Yehuda ben Teima says, “Be brazen as a leopard,
light as an eagle, swift as a gazelle, and strong as a lion -
to do the will of your Father in Heaven.”
The Tur explains “light as an eagle” as referring to lifting our
eyes away from things we shouldn’t look at. “For all sin begins
with the eyes that see, leading the heart to desire, and then
the body commits the sin” (Tur, Orach Chaim, 1).
It seems a bit strange to call Shmiras Einayim “light as an eagle”,
after all, this struggle is one of the most difficult that we face
Why the
name
Esa Einai?
By R’ Yaakov Nadel
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