Page 201 - BERESHIT

Avraham and Sarah kept the Torah’s rules and protocols of tzeniut. It was
only when they went down to Mitzrayim that Avraham realized her beauty
and sought to protect her.

Maran Harav Shach zt”l once showed his displeasure over a grandson
whose date lasted more than an hour. The expectation was that he could
have sufficed with an hour’s time to see if she was his destined spouse.

Rabbi Mattia ben Charash would rather have gone blind than be tempted
to sin. He prevailed over the enticements of the Satan by keeping the
Torah’s proprieties and not bending the rules to fit his own desires. Thus
he was fortified and vaccinated to fend off the enticements of the Yetzer
Hara.

Kimchit merited having seven of her sons officiate as Kohanim Gedolim.
This she attributed to her extra precaution of tzeniut (although not