Reply To: Shmiras Einayim and the ?? ?????

The Chofetz Chaim is explaining the position of the Rashbam. Why by avodah zarah can one go and not look, but by arayos he can’t? So he answers, like you just posted above. But if one has no other choice he can rely on himself not to come to hirhur, unless he knows he’ll have hirhur. (HebrewBooks doesn’t have Igros Moshe Even Haezer Chelek Aleph on it, but if you see there at the end of Siman 56, it might clarify for you)

Rav Zilber is learning, not like the Rashbam, so even if you have another path, it is mutar if you make sure to close your eyes.

Look, in this sugya, the Gemara gives you some element of trusting yoursef, but acc. to Rashbam as explained by Rav Moshe tz”l, that is only by ???? ???? ??????. Rav Zilber tz”l learns that even by ?? ????? ???? ??????, you can trust yourself not to look.

Rav Moshe is explaining that by ???? ???? ??????, if one looks, then the Torah is patur you (Rashbam), but you still have to guard oneself from Hirhur. But, by ???? ???? ??????, you shouldn’t have put yourself in that position, and besides you know that there is not tznius things there, so that itself might lead to hirhur. By going according to Rav Zilber’s explanation, you avoid Rav Moshe’s kashya. You can’t look either by ???? ???? ?????? or ????, but if you put yourself in a situation and then look, you are a rasha. If by ????, then your not a rasha. So the question of what about hirhur doesn’t arise, bec even by ???? it is assur to look. Acc. to Rashbam, the Torah paturs you, so we have the kashya of what about hirhur that Rav Moshe tz”l deals with.

(I am also a little confused with this sugya)