Reply To: Q&A With Rav Avigdor Miller

Q:
What is the problem with looking at the face of a wicked person? [ ???? ???? ?????? ???? ???? ??? ??? – “It is forbidden for one to gaze at the face (image) of a wicked person” (Megillah 28a). ]

A:
If you look at the face of a ???, you become a ???. And I’ll tell you why. We are influenced by people. And the face of ??? is a screen. It’s a projector. And his ???? projects its image on that screen. So his ????? is on his face.

You might not recognize it, you might not see it, but the ????? is on his face. And when you look at his face, it becomes stamped on your ????. What you see is stamped on your ????.

That’s very important. What you see will affect you. Don’t be ????? ???? ???. Don’t look at the face of wicked people. And don’t look at people doing wrong things. As much as possible, avoid getting the stamp of wrong things on your ????.

And I want to tell you something else – another reason. Hashem doesn’t like the ?????. A ??? is busy frustrating his own purpose in life and is busy ruining others as well. And Hashem is disgusted with that. Now, when someone feels disgust with somebody else, if you’re really disgusted by someone, then you don’t even want to look at that person. And Hashem doesn’t want to look at the ?????. And if you walk in the ways of Hashem, you will also be disgusted by the ??? and his behavior. You don’t even want to see him. You don’t want to look at his face. And that’s why we don’t look at the face of a ???. We are training ourselves to be disgusted with those who disgust Hashem.

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