Speaking of Faith - Rabbi Akiva Fox

continuing with our classes on emunah we discussed that emunah is an inherent quality it is an inherent belief that in essence a Jew has its part of his DNA the very chromosomes the very blood in the veins and the heartbeat of a Jew has faith and belief inside so all we need to do is to reveal it to uncover it but not to discover it it's been discovered already it's there we need to learn we need to possibly be taught or assisted in revealing it but it's deep inside so let's discuss how this can be done there are many different ways and we're going to learn bezrat hashem different techniques or tactics that might help us in our search as we called it in our journey for a Mona and our journey for faith but first a story so there was a husband who did not appreciate his wife basically he didn't enjoy her presence and he came to a marriage counselor and the marriage counselor listened to the background of this young man and he realized that in truth the wife had a lot of very fine qualities and the husband was let's say nervous or certain things were bothering him so the marriage counselor suggested as follows once a day best time would be in the morning sometime say the words I love my wife and he's but I don't I I don't feel it I have a hard time it said once a day for 10 days so the first day I home in on stone alright has a hard time getting it out he has a hard time expressing it's not true i don't feel and then the next day's a little bit easier and the next day's a little bit easier and comes the tenth day and he runs over to his wife when she walks in the door from work and he says I love my wife the message the moral of the story is that sometimes something that's deep inside that we need to reveal or we need to uncover the way to do so is specifically through expressing it through speaking about it when you open up your mouth and you utter at the beginning or you discuss or you relate certain concepts number one it's easier to internalize them and number two is it's already there so you are just opening it up and letting it out you're becoming more comfortable with it and that is a way to internalize or as we said to uncover emunah this is what the farm the the book the holy books tell us that it says the puzzle says into hell mhmm aunty ki a de bear I believe quijada bear when I will speak meaning that a person with his speech with the power of speech has the ability to guide his heart to in a certain sense control or direct his heart in a certain direction and this is a muna this is the m1 all that comes with DeBoer that comes specifically by speaking but it's not only in a certain sense directing him or telling him sober at trying to stuff down or internalize something there's a much more much deeper proponent that we're going to learn about first of all in the again i'm not i'm not a Kabbalists a i am doesn't hurt if you want to send checks cash credit card i'll take all that means i'll take your cash or I'll take your credit card but in the Kabbalistic world the unique proponent or the unique trait that God gave to mankind over any other creature or any other living being in this world is called the co ahad ybor is the ability to speak to enunciate to use his mouth for speech no other creature no other animals no other living things vegetation no other being in this world has that it's something that makes man not only unique but prestige that is mankind mankind and the Torah the targum the translation that was written by Uncle asst the aramaic translation and the times of the gamarra says that man when God breathed into him the life the life liner the life breath of God it says he became Rahman Malala he became a being that could speak this is his unique prestige over any other any other being and the other creature or any other life in this world in this universe so man's prestige is his ability to speak and to express and to relate and to connect to others and also to be able to talk to himself so using that very high quality that prestige to help a person reveal his inner depths to help a person connect with what exists deep down that is one of the highest levels that a person can reach so therefore using speech which is d bore to be able to express or not just to internalise but to bring out his emunah is a very powerful message a very powerful part of his existence and this is why when we talk about a Moodle when we give expression to the inner faith to the inner belief this is something that helps us not just internalize but rediscover uncover and reveal the emunah that exists deep inside you