EMET Talk - Rabbi Mordechai Kraft

you know what I mean by strength relationships is that there's a power that we have inside of ourselves that we're thought always so aware of and that is that we call in HEB we call theim Sim is that part of hem that lives inside of us and it's so powerful because it's connected to AEM and if we could only access it we could discover that we have wisdom that we didn't realize that we have in fact our our rabbis tell us this in Pavo where they say one of the great sages says I grew up amongst the sages the greatest thing I discovered was the power of Silence it's interesting one would think when you grow up amongst the sages you would hear wisdom you would hear ideas you would hear Terror he says no I discovered how powerful it could be when you remain silent so silence really is an art and what does it allow it allows for us to hear that voice that exists inside of ourselves a voice that's connected to Hashem now that voice is a voice that contains an enormous amount of wisdom in fact the Von tells us that even though we've lost n from the world we lost prophecy that there's a vestage of Prophecy that lives is something called intuition how do we access intuition well I can't access my intuition if there's noise and we don't always mean external noise we're talking about the noise that's inside of our minds and sometimes that our own speech interferes with that so what we need to do in order to access that is we have to just sometimes let ourselves be and stop and remain silent and we can access intuition that can help us solve most important issues that we face in fact I tell this to people all the time when they ask me questions I say well what does your intuition say and allow yourself time to stop and think about it that's the way we have to access intuition in order to hear the voice in order to know what to do but how about that in relationships themselves in relationships themselves often times someone says something to us and our response can be a response to what these say and may be hurtful probably the most Val valuable thing we can do in order to learn to respond correctly is not to say anything to hold back and not just to hold back because we don't want to hurt but by holding back what happens is all of a sudden the words emerge inside of ourselves which are the correct words to say I suggest this to people too who in going out of dates sometimes girls will tell me or boys will tell me the conversation doesn't flow so what I say to them is listen and remain silent if you listen and remain silent all of a sudden you'll hear your soul speak to you and when your soul speaks to you the words will come out and you'll know what to say and all of a sudden the conversation which appears so dull and so dead and so boring all a sudden comes alive because you're not just responding with your mind you're not just responding superficially responding to the depth of who you are so silence when cultivated properly is a magnificent gift we have to know how to utilize it the usami understood this these tell a famous story about one of two great Ramis that were looking for shim for their children it says they sat together for 20 minutes not saying anything at the end of those 20 minutes finally one of the rabbis looked up the other and says no other person says okay and one of the sons commented and said said you have to understand something don't think they weren't speaking they were speaking they were speaking tremendously they were speaking through the art in the Silence of Silence the quote Simon the gar fle hello darkness my old friend I come to welcome you again maybe we too can cultivate that beautiful wonderful art The Sound of Silence wow Sha