{"id":99280,"date":"2022-11-20T06:29:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T04:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99280"},"modified":"2022-11-21T19:12:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T17:12:39","slug":"a-lesson-in-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/a-lesson-in-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson in Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Lesson in Protection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was once asked to deliver a lecture before a group of women. I agreed. When I arrived at the venue, I was met with a surprise. Instead of the anticipated fifty women, approximately five hundred filled the room. They sat patiently, waiting for me to begin.<\/p>\n<p>For a moment, I was weak in the knees. I felt such confusion that I wanted nothing more than to go home and avoid all forms of challenges vis-\u00e0-vis gazing at strange women. But then I shook off such thoughts. I had come to offer words of <em>chizuk<\/em> and inspiration. Surely I would merit Hashem\u2019s help in protecting my eyes from improper sights, <em>chas v\u2019shalom<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>I thought it would be a good idea to keep my eyes closed throughout the lecture. I did this and literally felt Hashem at my side, shielding me from the wiles of the Yetzer Hara<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lesson in Protection I was once asked to deliver a lecture before a group of women. I agreed. When I arrived at the venue, I was met with a surprise. Instead of the anticipated fifty women, approximately five hundred filled the room. They sat patiently, waiting for me to begin. For a moment, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":99794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protecting-ones-eyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}