Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 91): The Signature of Hashem - Mesillas Yesharim

good morning Booker Tobin welcome back to our 10 minutes of meaning series generously sponsored by Lenny and Connie Greenstein dear friends in memory of Connie's father mr. Anton bore our own vineyard stock Zahara no live Rafa we have been making our way through the great room house Mozilla's he shot on the path of the just which is based on the teaching of a pen has been your the steps that are necessary in order to live the best version of ourselves in order to perfect ourselves to the best of our ability how can we actualize our potential how can we live our best lives how can we take the most from life how can we give the most to life the game was the heroes mindfulness cautiousness being present and all that we say and do it move diseases alacrity how to pursue our goals with resolutions with plans how to measure our progress and now with Nikias we have been going through one by one the character traits that sabotage our own success our own happiness how to eliminate them and how to better enrich and elevate our lives through the character traits that we really want to be living so the last we've been discussing is the power of speech the power of speech which is our passion our fifth book of the Torah Allah had varam had varam these are the words of Moshe Moshe who was a lowly story mono who we spoke about yesterday the partial class Moshe who said I don't have the capacity to speak well I'm not an orator I can't communicator articulate God pankot Michonne the same Moshe was a Louis Toriyama becomes Allah had varam these are our words words are precious words can build and words can construct and words cannot lift and words can create and words can bridge or words can destroy words can undermine words can corrupt words are a precious commodity that we have they are what differentiates us from the animal kingdom we are the Madaba we are the ones who speak and so the RAM has been telling us to choose and use our words very very carefully we're in a period of the year we now become the nine days in which we are even more acutely aware of our words and the impact that they can have on others do we use them to judge to marginalize to criticize to name-call but do we use them in order to enrich uplift to make people feel they belong to make people feel that they matter here the room has been focusing on using or abusing words in the form of lying people who distort the truth who embellished the truth who exaggerate the truth were altogether abandoned the truth and he divides into three categories of liars the ones who are the pathological liars the ones who the way you know that they're saying something that's not true is that their lips are moving how do you know they're telling a lie because they're speaking people who lie when they don't need to when it doesn't benefit when it doesn't help they simply cannot they cannot tell the truth not a story that they tell not any promise that they pledge that they promise do they keep people who are pathological liars the aja Hiram and then we went into the second category who are those who mix lies and truth and now we're up to the third category sporadic liars the issue in our favor shall call Youm comically Harish Onan there's another category which is more minor where the violation is less than the first two and that pathological liars and not people who normally pepper their truth with lies but people who sporadically live a machinima kukukaka checker people whose lies are not characterized by telling untruths Elish low yahushua's so I think me men who but on the other hand they're not careful to dis themselves from something which isn't true the miss Damien llaha ya'muru and if the opportunity comes they'll lie we've had many scandals among among candidates for office we had a scandal of a major journalist and if you remember the way that they got out of it as they said I misremembered what happened I misremembered what happened I don't even know that that's a word to misremember and I told the lie I exaggerated I thought it served my interests to be able to tell a story that never happened or that didn't happen in that way so people who have an opportunity opportunists where the lie will advance their agenda Lou Pearlman robbed us in lüderitz koku Quixote visible oh come on ara and then there are people who just that's a joke it's a joke i exaggerated i told the story that didn't happen i said something that wasn't true it was a joke i was being funny valo come on ara they're not trying to harm or injure another party they're not trying to take advantage of somebody else they're not giving false information in business or in a off or anything like that hello come on Iran well I'm the medina no shlokas I have that Hoover outside misuk acid who Marsha Kosovar Shakur yeast nuts addict this is the opposite of godliness godliness the almighty is characterized his signature wholesome our social cottage bottle ms the way he signs his name God's John Hancock is truth that's his name God is incapable of telling a lie he is the embodiment of truth and so the Roberto Shalom's interaction with awesome of this world is he follows through on that which he says that which he promises that which he pledges he shows up at the time he said he would come the world operates according to the rules that he set in motion he's incapable he is the embodiment the essence of truth and the more we want to attach ourselves to him the more we want to be godly in our own behavior than the more that we have to as well be connected to the truth even when it hurts even when it feels personally harmful even when we have to just be transparent and come clean even though it's not always easy that's what the pasta game initially says devour Shekhar year schnitz Alec the righteous hate false words you know what the measure of being at santak is the measure of being at Sadek is not whether your have a book article biography written about you and of course it's standards and Cassius and Dominic and shoves all that defines being its addict but the essence of being its addict is being truthful is your word your bond are you honest when you tell someone something do you mean it will you show up will you'd follow through are you reliable are you trustworthy but do you exaggerate do you tell lies do you tell distortions detail and truths and you drop the ball who Masha Bolivar US army devar Shakira this is what the Torah and pastors Mishpatim tells us meet Varsha care tear distance yourself from something which is Shakur materia and notice as the ROM how shallow armored Misha curtisha mayor elimedia Shakur tear it doesn't say be careful be vigilant be scrupulous avoid a lie a distortion and untruth it says tear it doesn't just say be careful about it it says distance yourself from it Lahari Rossano I'll hire a car God Oh BRE Cahaba photographer Lavrov Misha distance yourself makes us aware of how far we need to go we need to run away to escape it's chasing us it's pursuing us it's all around us as we said last week honesty is such a lonely word everyone is so untrue and so it's all around us with varsha care tee-rific it's not enough teach a mare to safeguard to be careful but tear with the distance herself be disconnected not associated with it Luke or Nomura Sheryl yo hablo Willy de barajas although you must have a fear Washington Thomas post against Vanya which says the remnant of the Jewish people should do no iniquity no speak falsely nor should they be found in their mouths a deceiving tongue in order for the Jewish people to merit Redemption this period of the three weeks the nine days Tish above the new Veeam over and over the prophets over and over tell us that the reason we find ourselves in this predicament the Jewish people are in this condition in the world is not because of our religious failure per se though of course we need to improve and we need to grow and we need to recommit the reason we find ourselves in this condition in the world is because of the mistreatment of one another and among the mistreatment of one another the slander the gossip to hurt the hate is being untrue is being untrue the hurt the hate and the slander are particularly harmful and hurtful when they're untrue when they're lies when they're made up when they bear no resemblance to the truth but haha was it from the raha um rule our great rabbis our great sages taught the good man Shabbos how so much alike it was more of a mess we've been saying it over and over the stamp the insignia the signature of a Shem is he doesn't sign his name Hashem it isn't signed his name kale Carl okay no he signs his name truth of Avadh that she might M assume a Shabbat Rebecca's mark on the capital of hosam law so if that's what a sham took as his own signature come a year f KO meto of LIF enough if that's what he took us his insignia his logo cuz bar who says you know what my brand is you know how I want to be thought of you know what I want you to have an emotional connection to my brand my logo is Emma's truth Aleph is the first letter of the alphabet and mem the middle letter and tuff the last letter from beginning to end from start to finish truth all the way through that's God's logo it's his brand to tell he wants to be thought of which tells us if we go against that if we violate it then we are violating a college bar who how repulsive that is to him the his year college bar called Mssr urabá Hershberger who gave us a very strong warning Armani said da blue Ms ish SRA who speak truth one to another just come clean be transparent be honest be faithful speak truth be truthful in business and in conversation socially intellectually be truthful be honest we are blue Humber has a key Sevilla she loved the MS the throne of mushiya will be established with kindness and he'll sit on it through truth you want to bring mushiya be honest be careful with every word that leaves our lips be as careful with the call it comes out of our mouth as with what comes into it if we said we're gonna call you back call back if I say imma show up at this time show up at this time if someone asked me a question about someone about something be truthful so I'm telling a story tell it the way it happened don't exaggerate well Marva Yamanaka me him about namely Shakira Halima flesh is a Talib is everybody grace usual I'm your MS lahardee husha Busha you shall I am you know the greatest praise we can give up you shall I miss you shall I him we don't talk about the Jerusalem stone you shall lie and we don't talk about the world off or you can eat breakfast you shall I am what do we talk about you shall I am it's an ear ha MS it is a city of truth it has no tolerance it rejects and environments out those who are untruthful Maharaja she loose' because if you want to impress if you want to raise the prominence or stature if you want to reflect positively on someone something lahardee hayabusa describe it as an MS and a mistake a person and a mistake a city farms a chrome over all covered over I miss bill Volvo qug owner of Safra well dear card he come home oh say I miss my gas sages said the one who speaks truth from the heart comes from a second-team test valve to over ms bill Volvo it's very short paragraph in tehilim that describes me Agora be Allah from Michigan who will who merits to live and dwell among you Hashem and Evelyn off concludes you know who's worth dwelling with a share you know who God wants to live with you know who he wants to move in with you know who he wants to room with girls but who wants to live with me eva's baba though the person who speaks heart speaks truth from the heart this applies even sort of Safra which teaches how greatest one's obligation to always speak the truth so I'll pick up with this term it's a sham next week there of tisha buff but this is what we need to be working on in this time is true that honesty and faithfulness being careful measuring and mindful with every word that leaves our lips very big thank you to the grumps teens for your sponsorship we'll meet back here 15 minutes living with emunah 8:45 tonight behind the Bema 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