Ta'anit Dibur - A fast of speech - Value 65,600 fasts of eating!!! - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so we spoke not once and not twice about the concept that is called a fast of speaking don't speak now this is not a a short class will not be sufficient to cover it i just want to kind of touch the topic a little bit of sources because it's not really sourced and what can be achieved especially that now this shabbat shabbat i recommended to take a tanidibu and not only this shabbat it's very very recommended to go on these fast that you just don't speak when i became observant i went weeks without speaking i can tell you that first of all just by not slandering cheating lying and cursing for a whole day that is sufficient dieno that's enough to know how to control your mouth besides that it brings you to a very high level of refinement and it puts you in a very positive place of control that you know how to control yourself but nevertheless let's go a little bit about the tani dibu and we're going to have to do a few other classes i want to read from the countryside what the what the the main source that we have on time is talking about rabbi but nevertheless we'll go through what we can today and then we'll do a few other classes first of all i want to take you back to the mishnah intracted the vote chapter one mishnah you design 17 and it's talking about a certain tana then his name was shimon and it says his son says translation oh my life i've grown amongst sages this is these are the real sages not smarty pants or however you call it i don't know how you say it in a nice way all my life i've grown next to hakamim the real sages and i've only found one good thing for your body which is silence be quiet now one can interpret this mishna by saying when you are next to aham shut up because you are nothing next to him and more than that when a true sage speaks you're not going to understand what he's talking about so better be quiet because you're going to make yourself look like a fool besides the fact that the real real when they talk they talk in such a high level they don't really relate with what they're saying i know a few great rabbis in our generation that are beyond amazing and miraculously they don't have much of a following and you know why because nobody understands what they're saying when somebody speaks in a very high level you you can't relate with them so this is one way of explaining the mishna but to our case how would i explain this mishna what is the best thing for your body stick up be quiet be quiet close your mouth some say you say better that you shut your mouth and don't talk better than fasting fasting is not so easy not to put food in your mouth but not to talk so we're gonna hold on that that in many cases better for you not to speak it's better than your fasting now there's no source for tanidibu not not in the mishnah not in the torah not in the mishnah not in the talmud not in the zohar not anywhere not in books of kabbalah that is not talking about daniel devoe the first one who really talks clearly straight out about atani dibu is a great mikubal his name is rabitrak al faye who lived he died a few years ago he died in 1955 this is a what 60 something years ago born in the late 1800s he's a from syria halabi from haleb i have a good friend who's a descendant of him he was mamash known to be mekubal with real wisdom of kabbalah he wrote a book that is called contrast i've mentioned this contrast already a few times when i gave the lecture a few months ago about the new world order and i was talking about the freemasons i quoted his book where he was asked if one can include these freemasons in a minion which you can't of course and he was asked about them and he went and made a research and came back and he says these people are idolaters and they're doing it kasim shall have this is a idolatry that was thought to be forgotten from the world with sacrificing people and all sorts of weird things with skulls and fire and blood and swords so i mentioned his book the contrast in this book in a in a section that is called beth hashem this is specifically if you want to find it is in page 65 65 that's the first time he actually speaks out clearly about a tiny debut not today we don't have time to that but bazaar hashem after next week we i want to read from the book itself that you see how he talks about it also how he gives the calculation and where he brings it and so forth this really is our only main source to it and mainly hold by him that he was an authority a real mikubal that his words are valid to all although there are some rabbis that contradict him and they disagree with him and they don't hold him as a reference or as any source but nevertheless let's go back to the talmud because we do need to reference and to source what we're doing so it says interacted page pathet 89 that if a person does not talk at the time of a argument usually in the heat of the argument you throw all sorts of words that you usually will be sorry that you said them after somebody comes accuses you for something insults you contradicts you whatever it is very easy to shoot a word that will be sharp as a knife what does it mean this is a verse from the book of chapter 26 verse sein i believe seven that it says he suspends the earth on nothing which is really one of our sources that earth is hovering in in some type of nothingness in space this is one of our references that the planet is just hanging there in the middle of nowhere i mean really when you're thinking of it just to sidetrack for a second about the wonders do you understand that we're living on some floating ball i know a lot of people will argue and say the earth is flat we're not going to get into this right now but the zone calls it a ball i go with the zoe but nevertheless we're floating on some ball in the middle of nowhere how is the ball floating and not falling so a yov says to lay argh he suspends the earth or nothing but that's the translation if you take the words in hebrew means to stop to shout but also to kill like when you press the brakes real strong you you hit the brakes it's called in hebrew you would say blah blah close your mouth or not close your mouth rather put breaks on your mouth when you're about to say something step on the brakes don't say it so billy ma so he says that the entire world is sustaining on the fact that you didn't say anything if you see a person in the middle of an argument and they hold his mouth go to the person kiss his hand ask for abraham that person right now in that moment could be that all his sins were even forgiven some of our sages says you shut up in a in a moment of anger all your sins can be forgiven 70 years back just zip your mouth so here we see not a direct a instruction for but the talmud is saying the power of don't talk of restraining your talk then the soul says in parashat paige cough pay gimel 183 a b it says that estelle the queen she zakhtallah malhot she became a queen and the zol says why did she became a queen because she didn't tell her origin she might be a she didn't say anything she didn't say she's jewish she didn't say well what's her lineage she didn't say anything the if you want to look in megillat this you can found in the in the megillah chapter 2 verse 10 and it says that estee lauder he says because all says because she zipped him out she became a queen very high level again and again it's not a source to a tanidibu but we see the virtue the advantage of closing your mouth you say in the mishnah you want to show you want to put a fence for wisdom close your mouth another source in the talmud in massachusetts in a page of 18 a it says milan a word will cost you sellers like a coin a currency the one word will cost you one coin silence will cost you two so the value of the silence is double than what the the value of the coin saying in other words the talmud says there that how do you reach or receive the highest level of refuge of healing be quiet person is sick be quiet don't take antibiotics be quiet now don't take this now as me saying don't take antibiotics now i'm gonna get lawsuits nowhere everyone ever said don't take antibiotics i'm just you do whatever you you consult your your doctor i'm telling you the refwa for the goof if sickness be quiet the best thing for the body is be quiet now it says in a book called and this can be found in page nun 57 and it's talking in the name of the meli miller now they normally milk for the ones of you are familiar not familiar this is talking about from if you remember two years ago we used to learn every day from the teachings of the normally melee every day we learned a very small portion from the parachute the normally melee all the videos are online you can find them gems that you can't even start digesting or depth of wisdom and we don't know no no no no he was a very high level individual whatever he says is accepted by all there is a book like i told you it's called the mercy of father paige nunzan 57 where it says in the name of the anomaly melech that if you read three books of tahilim in a row it's only going to take you nine hours but if you if you read fast if you read three books of twilight in a row it's like as if you fasted from shabbat to shabbat a six day fast three books of thieleme listen you read fast we'll take you let's say two and a half hours three hours five hours you knock it out no big deal tells us that if you read three books of the elimination is if you fasted from you know who used to do these fasts the baba sally 84 81 the baba sally used to do misha shabbat fast from moshe shabbat he can't do abdullah because he can't drink the wine somebody has to do of the love for him and from what says about two heir of shabbat you don't eat 81 times maybe 84 i know it'd go 81. yeah i i know that he used to do it 81 times but not every week it spread them out what no anything you don't need nothing six days nothing six days fast now a normal human being in the first day has a stomachache in the second day you start pulling hairs out of your head on the third day you're already seeing things on the fourth day you're if you ever try to do if you ever tried to do such fast but the second day you really is almost impossible but the third day you're ready you are almost like an angel you don't need to eat you don't need to sleep you're already talking to the kadosh but how many people were already doing six day fast used to do it by the way is a book he says whoever fasts from misha bakla shabbat it's like as if he fasted 65 600 fasts that's what the hamduck says if you fast what we just said vermont shabbat six days till friday you can find it in the book that came in paige kaf kufftet i'm not saying that 65 and 600 fats is this really valid is this listen i'm just quoting i'm just telling you i'm not too worried about you fasting for six days so but but we still need to bring the sources okay now it says this is what rabbi is says that a day of attack a day plus the night the three books of tehillim is like as if you fasted 65 600 times good luck starting from now three books of the elim and one day not to speak if you can do it now like i told you this is not accepted by everybody uh i can tell you that in our generation josef was not so for these things but there is a story i don't remember all the details that there was some issue with some a congregation of synagogue and he actually said to bring a group of ham to dua need for the entire day and learn torah but i'm telling you i'm just giving you a little bit of background the thing is that according to the rizal and really this is the source that we lean on you're not going to find anywhere in the tavim in the scripts of the result that he's talking about and not about a fast from from matresia but to friday why did baba sally did it baba sally this is hashem is it like an angel but obviously if the baba sally did it there's some type of kabbalah for that and many others i'm just giving you the idea that you know what to lean on the the gong hida in his book ziporan jamir he says that if a person fasts for three days straight it's like as if you fasten for 40 days so this is a solid a source again if you fast for three days straight it's considered like a 40 day fast like marcia rabeno was on the mountain 40 days and he didn't drink now according to the contrast if you do today of a tan edible it's like as if you fasted 27 times if you do a three day tanidibu it's like as if you fasted 40 times if you do a 40 day four four day tanidibu it's like as if you fasted one thousand eight hundred times if you do a five day tiny demo it's like as if you fasted hundred times if you then fast six days of atanidibu it's like as if you fasted sixty-five thousand six hundred times how it comes to these calculations i don't know next week bezel hashem we'll read out straight from the book how he breaks it down what he brings what's his sources now is this really a source to the majority we do go by what he says is that really going to give you a capara i don't know if anybody can really back it up by telling you yes don't speak for six days listen i can tell you from the little that i know harm it's not gonna do not to talk a few days not to curse not to slander not to lie not to use false language not to raise your voice not to talk about junk on shabbat the vrejol can that do anything wrong only good so what's interesting here one last source in the mishnabura this can be found in part tough ku fein alev he says there toble cabelta need so we see that there are and this is the mishna so we see that we do have solid sources excuse me what do you mean translate oh sorry the the better to take on yourself uh tani dibu not to talk than a tanito of eating so we do see that we do have many sources that is referring to the tanidibu and its great virtues what exactly does it do to you i can't tell you the result says if you fast for eating x amount of times it will do a tikkun for this and that i told you already that rizal breaks down for what sin how many times you have to fast you always have to time that five there are tickling to do but there's no really nobody can come really and tell you if you do this in tanitibu it will atone for x amount of scenes or whatever but nevertheless even though we don't have a solid source what it does i can tell you already damage it's not going to do good it's going to do amazing now you're not gonna start counting how many fasts you did but nevertheless to take on yourself not to speak for one day two days three days it's irrelevant right now how much of the tikkun you do trust me hashem is not going to ignore what you did how much is going to clean and cleanse your soul a lot i'm telling you just by the fact that you don't do it you know yoshi below you know if you sit and you didn't do a sin it's already good that's what i did when i became observant when i tried to keep shabbat you know what i would do i would sleep the whole day i'm not doing anything wrong right i'm not desecrating shabbat i would sleep 16 18 hours that's what i did my first yom kippur my first yom kippur i slept in taiwan kippu i went to kolnitre came home went to sleep woke up vanilla boom right like that i gave 180 donation you know i was like wow pretty simple so just don't do anything and that's how i observed you about in the beginning i just didn't do anything go to sleep better not to do any damage sad thing here close your mouth the damage that you do with your mouth open for one day is unfathomable so just to conclude we're going to learn a little bit more about anitibu more from books from i want to learn from the and uh just to have some text more in depth really what you do is you just don't speak now there are two types of tanya debu very quickly that just to to to explain one of them is you don't speak at all nothing not high not by no nothing the only thing that words that come out of your mouth is prayer that you can prayer out loud you repeal him you say it out loud you read from the homage you say it out loud you read you say it out loud no problem that's it the next one was a little bit lenient you can talk but it can only be referring to torah we can have a 20-minute conversation talk about a story from the talmud talk about a story from the midrash a story about sadiq and we talk about concepts of torah yeah but you can't talk i highly recommend to if you of course if you can the harder one just do the first one this coming shabbat shabbat shiva i recommend all to do the strict turning devoted you don't talk at all you can pray out loud you can do kidus you can sing shalom aleichem it's part of the kidus you can say uh you do the you do everything if there's mirot of shabbat you sing this it's part of the shabbat rather than that you silent like a fish for 25 hours a little bit before shabbat a little bit after shabbat this is for this shabbat shabbat if you can do it the more you can better when i start becoming examining observing i used to go for weeks without talking i can tell you it takes you to a completely different level completely different level how often can you do it you can do it every week you can do it every day you can do whatever you can all depends if you work you can't do it if you have little kids it's not so easy not so easy to do it but you definitely want to find a few times once a month usually a lot of people would they take the time to take tanya divorce at the time of the coup of shavavim when we're going into the six week period which this is coming pretty soon by the way it's around the corner it's only what what three months from now but we're gonna then we're gonna start our new uh six week journey because um very few people teach about this shop of women what to do and shove in by the way it's not only for zero level it's for all the crypto by the way it's a very powerful time a lot of people do tanya dibull at the time of the show but we'll go we'll talk about that at the time when we get there shaving is a period of six weeks where it's the show of him is the acronym of all the parashot that we read and show him is like a like a what naughty boy somebody who goes a little bit crazy but nevertheless that's what the prophet says come back you naughty boys but we want to conclude for now that uh is something good for you for your body for your soul definitely cleanses you definitely will reach your anatomy atonement can we count on what uh rabitra called fire says that if you don't speak for six days then it would be considered 65 000 fast who am i to contradict this great sadiq there are great rabbis who don't agree with him but i i less care if i fasted sixty thousand or 65 600 you know what i more care about that i didn't say that i didn't lie i didn't cheat i didn't slander and in curse that infused false language that's what i care about this is a yeah how do you say it because that would be the complete opposite the point is that just by not talking that's that's your reward so we're going to conclude that i highly recommend to do it especially this shabbat when it's shabbat shiva and we're going to continue learning some other interesting things about tani if you can do it more often even once a week even if you can't do it on a regular basis do it on shabbat even the lenient one that you just don't speak the borehole that's also not so easy by the way yeah exactly but it's not so easy to control the borehole is that you're talking about business and mundane and the football game and call means mundane not shabbat shabbat that conversation has to be limited only for kdusha and not even things as can he pass me the soup that's not the dusha right i mean some will be more lenient and say okay the soup you can ask to be passed but the point is to keep your mouth holy and the most important thing that we take from that is exactly what rib shimon said the best thing that i found from my body is to be quiet guard your mouth from eve evil and your lips from talking a a lying and you know the ramban says you guard your tongue and your mouth you're guarding from all the evil and the problems has come to you so as they say silence is bliss silence is worth gold you need to know how to control your mouth and you know what when i can tell you from my own experience when you put yourself under this leash of not speaking for a long time you know to control your mouth when you need to say something wrong i'm sorry when you about to say something wrong very easy somebody says something christian you shoot like an arrow out of your mouth your wife says something you don't like right away you say something and usually words you can't take back and it's not only your wife it can be anyone but when you put yourself under some type of a discipline that you know how to tolerate you stop your mouth you you this is like abs system this is a very professional system to you're about to say something and you know to save yourself from evil save yourself from death sometimes your mouth can put you to death so just by to practice that that's already worth it should keep us holy hashem should make sure that we are able to guard their mouth and i can tell you already the dusha the holiness that you bring on yourself with gout in your mouth is is unfathomable and may hashem allow us to really guard our mouth and keep our mouth holy and our mouth should be only there to praise hashem to thank hashem to pray for hashem and with this said we're going to pray now and praise the master of the universe is here [Music] you