Iggeres HaGra #5 - Account For Every Word

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good afternoon everyone we continue in the igar sagra and uh yesterday we were learning about uh the gru's understanding of the taivo soil is like salt water and the more somebody partakes the more that they need um then the con concluded the paragraph gamba laila in in this world the difficulties and the and the challenges and the things that worry a person don't let a person sleep there are two readings either in omikra either it's not coincidental but it's perforced to one's existence or about mother say it's in other words it's not a refuge it's not an arya miklot the rev goldberg cites the character and in some registraf days that the time says the reason why we read master yonah on yom kippur is lest the person be very inspired on yom kippur and say oh you know i really need to do shiva and then they say tim says what i have to do chuva i'll just die and i'll go in my grave and nobody will bother me i'll have p finally peace and quiet nobody will knock on my door you know um even better i'll get a i'll get a i'll get a nice place on the harassesum or harmony and hopefully either nobody will come or they they'll be coveted so nobody will find me whatever it is people have this idea that they'll escape in death and uh the shahadziyan writes the the purpose of say for yonah is for a person to realize that by hook or by crook they've got to fix up any infraction that they uh committed in this world because otherwise they're going to come back on a second round and the whole say for jonah is really a remiss to the neshama coming in the coming down to this world and if it does not want to fulfill its mission god sends it again okay so now we begin the next parac for everything god will bring judgment for every single word even a small word even a light word will not be lost what does it mean even an uh light word a light word means it's not washing hard it's not requires it's not shaker it's um it's not a dover user well the question is so okay if it's not a double us or so what's the problem with it um lmi we know that the taurus says vidibar tabam from which we learned that one should speak words of torah and not devarim battalion but nevertheless there are so sometimes a person does have to speak about subjects which are not torah namely somebody has to speak about their work or someone has to speak about their business but even so even when it comes to business there's a concept that one should have give us so some kind of heisman or accounting that is this a word that needs to be said or is this not a word that needs to be said you know robbie saw cilantro in his your mommy midais so the media of stika is to sort of to hajban the necessity of saying a word before one emits it says the gra therefore i warn you at mecca you should train yourself as much as possible to sit by yourself now this is very interesting practice the gross saying that one should try to get into the habit of sitting by themselves not to speak excessively so in other words the first good uh it's a is if you're picking a seat in shul um there are people i don't know probably not in your show but they say there are people that they choose their seat and show based on where their friends are why in the world would somebody pick a seat and show next to a friend wha what is the friend got to do with anything why would you want your friend near you the best seat is next to somebody who either you don't know or doesn't talk especially the best seat is somebody who wears a mask even if he's the only guy in show who wears a mask you should sit next to him but the girl is saying further you should train yourself to sit by yourself in fact rabbina bakaye writes and rav goldberg brings us in his commentary that the reason why the shivatim were shepherds by trade why do they choose to be shepherds because the shepherd the rabbi says most sadiq shepherds so that they could distance themselves from uh socializing because most avarois are intertwined in the hate of debor in fact the guru writes in michelle paragal of pasakov that the greatest myths in the torah is talmud torah and the biggest aveira in the torah is devarim bettalem and the grace says something very interesting i once said this over and did not go over well but this is the truth that um the grass says the biggest hate in the turret is varantha talem he says that really there it's there's no desire for dwarven battalion a person might have a desire for arayos because it's something that gives hana a person might have a desire for non-kosher food because it tastes good but there's no inherent desire for dvaram battalion why do people like to speak dwaram battalion because since tamatar is the greatest mitzvah therefore dvaram battalion is so to speak the opposite of tamatara so like this whenever you do a mitzvah the grass says there's an angel that rests on you in other words let's say you learn a word of torah the malach comes and the mouth says you learned one word of taurah now i want you to learn more and you have this urge to learn more and you're not satisfied until you learn more and then when you learn more an even bigger mall comes and says you know what you really should do an even bigger mitzvah and then you're not satisfied until you do an even bigger mitzvah and that's mitzvah guerrero smith sometimes you see somebody they learn so much and you say how in the world can they learn so much it's like they're addicted or something and the answer is they're addicted that's the answer they are addicted because there is a superna this is not a psychological explanation it's not a psychological phenomenon it's a mystical phenomenon that when you do a mitzvah you have an urge and a need to do a bigger mitzvah and you're not satisfied until you do that bigger mitzvah and then comes and says you really need to do an even bigger mitzvah that's the concept of mitsuo guerrero but the grass when somebody doesn't have error which the biggest aveiro is wasting time not learning so if you just copper schmooze for 15 minutes talking about i don't know what uh um obviously we're going to talk about the mets but maybe you want to talk about the dodgers let's say you live in los angeles so let's say you spend 15 minutes talking about nonsense then the the amalek comes and says you know what next time you need to speak longer and then you're not satisfied until you speak long and then next so in other words there's this never ending desire to speak to varmint talent which is the grosses is not natural it's sort of self-induced it's a mystically self-induced phenomenon that when a person begins to speak to varane battalion he has a need the next time to to engage even more now then the ground says something very interesting he says that you should train yourself to sit by yourself so again you know everybody needs uh socialization to some extent you know human beings do enjoy the company of others but at least at times of ruchnias train yourself by davening you don't need to be near somebody by learning don't be next to the guy that's going to be you know schmoozing with you in the middle the grass is above and beyond all sin is the sin of speech considered the greatest mitzvah vlasin hara is considered the most serious infraction um why should i speak at length about this most strict avira of all the virus in the torah it's very interesting there's some sofa that says that why was my shabbino punished for hitting the rock um what are the ubuntu monthly bunch from one of my video to speak to the rock well what's the big deal maisha hits the rock he speaks to the rock why was it so important to your banishment that mushrooms speak to the rock so i'm sorry for writing that if moisture would have brought claudius ontario to israel the base amigdas never would have been destroyed so says some surfer i understand the bias re-shine why was it destroyed because of avoiding zara gillard but the second base the mikdash was destroyed because of roshan haras in asrinam so how would moshe taking them into earth's israel have prevented cloud israel from speaking lash and hara says the fair hashem's kavanaugh was to maisha maisha before you bring the jewish people into araz israel speak to the rock and then it's going to flow with water the lesson being that claudiuso will learn the power of deborah and they'll recognize that if the deborah tayeth could bring water from iraq adibara could be mahrez of kedusa and this way they would never have spoken they would and the base of ignorance never would have been destroyed but because maisha didn't speak to the rock khloe so never learned the lesson of mamela there would have been no tialis for moshe to bring them entirety israel because the base some of this would have been destroyed anyway because they never would have learned the kayak of the bore so therefore hashem said you can't bring them in but we learn from here that we very much underestimate the power of speech it's very far from our minds to sort of uh make a hasharah whether uh what we're about to say is a taialas or is not a taylors in this edition of the gara sagra from the he brings a little maisa that one time by the way regular lefkowitz is the author of was written anyway one time was about to say something and he you know he refrained and he said the reason i'm refraining is there's no taeyeolas again it's not that it's in hara it's not that it's uh there's no avira involved but there there's a more a concept that transcends that that if what you're about to say doesn't have any benefit it's not insulting it's not going to hurt anybody it's just it doesn't stand to it's not going to make somebody feel good it's just talking so that's an idea that the gra very much uh emphasizes that one should avoid talking just for the sake of talking now there are a lot of things that need to be spoken about a lot of people that need cheering up and there are a lot of compliments that need to be heard however the concept of just speaking just for the sake of it that's what the guru is speaking about that nevada affilo di boracal a light word meaning even a word that it's really of no harm but it's also of no benefit that will not be lost either okay rabbi have a great day we'll see everybody tomorrow i want to remind everyone the shurim are uh now on podcast and they were accepted by all podcast syndicators what they what that means i don't know you uh but uh it's on all the various syndicators and of course on tour anytime rabbis have a great day bye bye you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com