Walls’ Eyes Matter
As much as possible Kimchis was always thinking, “These beams, these boards in the ceiling will someday go testify before the Tribunal and they’ll be talking about me, all my secrets.” And all her life she behaved as if the boards were eyes that were looking at her. She trained herself, day after day, to have emunah chushis, a physical actual belief that the ceiling was looking at her. That’s how she accustomed herself to the truth that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is in the home.
For years and years, Kimchis was not only practicing covering her hair always, but she was creating a mind of ר∆ ּ̇≈סַּב םƒיַמָׁ ̆ ‡≈ר¿י םָ„ָ‡ ‡≈ה¿י םָלֹעו¿ל – A man should always fear Hashem in secret.
That’s what the Chachomim meant. “Many people did what you do but it didn’t help. But because you lived that way, that’s what did it. You were creating for yourself a Torah mind and because of that great quality you deserved this great reward.”
And that’s what we’re talking about tonight. The more you use the walls of your home the greater you’ll become. The more you remember that your ceiling will be a witness for or against you, the more you’ll achieve. It takes hard work but those walls can become your biggest defenders.
And the walls are everything because it’s within the walls of your house that men are made! It’s within the walls of the house that women are made! It’s within the walls of the house that boys and girls are made! Of course, outside in the shul, in the kollel, on the street, in the office and the yeshiva and Beis Yaakov, that’s all very important. But it’s in the secrecy of your home, baseiser, that man is tested, and therefore, that is the area that a man must consider the most vital thing: “What will be the opinion, the testimony of the walls of my house on the Yom Hadin?”
