Iggeres HaGra #7 - Carefulness With Each Word

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay uh good afternoon everyone good evening we continue in the garage hagra and as usual i just want to remind everyone get everyone and used to uh being able to know all the various venues you could catch the sheer on tourney time or on podcast we're continuing in the garage and the girl was telling us about the importance of being careful with every word that a person is has to give an accounting for every word that they said not even a small word is lost and therefore the warned that one should train themselves as much as possible to sit on their own because uh the most overarching of all khatoem is the hate of lashon like hazal say the lashing horror corresponds to all the various of eros and um the grass said there's no need to be marach about the avere which is more hammer than all of irois and even all of one's mithsois word tyra cannot sort of speak make up for improper use of words one should acquire the following profession in this world make themselves like an elaine and put their tulips together very tightly like a mill and the whole punishment of kaphakala is just for extraneous words for each extra word one is liable or maybe i one deserves to be slingshot from one end of the world to the other now this is all by dvaramya serum extra words so uh we began last time by speaking about the very interesting khakira that the brother of rakai and vilajnar was hoyker [Applause] and in the safer today sodom he brings the khakira that his brother abhayim had namely when was a young man he had a suffix video by the way that's and in a situation where a person is user to speak divrei torah let's say anna base americans are you allowed to speak sichas hulen is there only an issue to speak to arabic taylor and where you can speak where you where you could speak to torah or is there some kind of independent inherent reason not to speak varana battalion maybe dramatic are inherently prohibited now based on what we said last time that there's a pasik in kahelas that god is in heaven and you're on earth and a recognition that the ibanez shalom is above us is reason enough to be a very circumspect in the words that we say so that would seem to be a reason not to speak to arabic talem anywhere even if it it's not in a place where one would uh be allowed to learn in other words you could clear the kakira even in general in other words let's say a person needs to take a break they need they're not going to be learning anyway so so can we say well if they're not going to be learning anyway so then they might as well uh speak their heart out or even then even though they're not going to be learning there's an inherent value of being quiet now interestingly the rambam said that there are four five categories of speech the rambam classified that just stories just empty conversation stories about anything are the rambam categorized as moss the third category of speech surrounding says davar sumas that's a divarum that have no tayalas for a person like most stories now the in the sephirah today's adam he brings that rebecca velaziner's conclusion was that it's only oscar to speak to varan batalim in a situation where you could be learning and they even bring a story that when rokham came to the base america it's a place that it's also maharaja he would ask what's doing what's the latest what's the news what's the politics and he himself would say over various wondrous accounts and stories and people who were amazed where did rahatus rakhim know this where'd he get this from so it's somewhat uh difficult because based on what we said dwarim battalion extra words the the grass seems to be of the opinion that they are harmful and they are unworthy and the rambam categorizes them as davar moss well they they do say stories of the in that when the met people he would speak and the one time the khabit khayim was overheard having a lengthy conversation about cows and the logic of that was well it's better than lashin hara so which may be that inherently speaking even about something that's harmless is harmful but it's beneficial if it's going to protect someone from speaking lush and horror you could say the same thing about the basin americas maybe for people who aren't a very high madriga and otherwise they couldn't help but learning so for them their conversation actually was beneficial to be able to be spared from speaking to veteran okay be it as it may the guru continues the grass says the quran is saying everything we said uh until now is talking about extra words in prohibited words kuga in los angeles speak uh negatively about another jubilee sonos or mockery and oaths and vows and fighting or clovis and cursing um and especially in shul we know in she brings it's prohibited to have an idol conversation show the mission bro there says even conversation that's needed for parnassa that your ladders speak outside of show one cannot speak in shul furthermore the guru continues and that's another theme that the grower is going to speak about coming up soon speaking on shabbos talking on shabbos now shinhara talking in general we're going to see that the brings to you xiaomi that you need a hetero to say shabbos shalom to someone you need a hetero to wish someone good shabbos otherwise really ideally speech was not meant for the seventh day of the week the lashon with great difficulty hazal had to find a heter to wish someone hello on shabbos so certainly extremely complete extraneous conversation is something to consider on shabbos for there for these infractions there's serious uh repercussions one would have to go to the very deep down the after the shire goddard it's impossible to estimate the great travails that one perhaps would be culpable for for one of these violations not even one conversation is lost that's not recorded ballet godfin tommy you have these winged creatures that are floating constantly floating near a person they have a digital recorder it looks like this and they're just recording what you're saying and not only that they have cameras also now you're you're on camera you're being recorded the question called deeper video every word is written because the bird of heaven brings the sound about him the winged creature will relay the matter do not place to your mouth to bring sin to your flesh don't say to the angel kishkagahi that it's uh incidental why should god get angry in other words everything mentioned until now is for extra words but for prohibited words that's something very serious um and at the very least what we could take out of uh what the girl is saying the the very uh great accounting that is incumbent upon us really for every word we say in other words if somebody has to spend money they think twice if somebody has to talk they don't even think once you know talking sort of is natural people like to follow the gemara dibor is not a misa but the gra in the to the grudge the the faculty of speech was a very expensive commodity it's something that default should not be used it's so to speak like a gun you use it when you need to you don't if somebody owns a gun they don't use it just because they have it the same thing with speech you don't use it just because you have it it's a tool it's a weapon just because you own a screwdriver it doesn't mean you go around all day you know like waving it at people okay it's very nice you have a screwdriver when you have a something to screw in then you use it it's very nice you have a hammer but you don't walk around all day banging so just because someone has a faculty of speech the ibanesha made many safety uh devices on the faculty of speech the first being the teeth the teeth is the first thing so the first thing is by default your teeth should be closed and then the second thing is your lips should be closed so you say well in that case i'm not going to be speaking that's right it's like revolver you're not using it unless you need to and that's why the gemara says the uh tongue is the only limb which is horizontal which means by default it is in a resting position now there are many things you have to use it for for for limitation and so forth sometimes you need to use it for paranasal sometimes you need it to part of the mitsubi is you make somebody feel good you give somebody uh a comment however in general the uh the the default position of the mouth is uh shusika that's where the ramp says okay so we'll pick it up tomorrow of course everyone's invited tonight 9 15. ivan wishing everyone a great evening called you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com