The Power of Speech - Rabbi Akiva Fox

so we were discussing how speaking about a Munoz speaking about faith is a way to give expression to that which already exists deep inside of us the actual speaking enunciated talking about emunah now this comes out in many different ways first of all the rambam maimonides writes that for him one of the most beloved and cherished excuse the web and maybe activities that he enjoyed was speaking about emunah to just to sneak about it is something that is very precious in the life of a Jew but there's more there's much more than just the actual speaking about it first of all there exists in the Jewish holidays there's a famous Jewish holiday called paisa called pass over Passover was when the Jewish people were redeemed from Egypt and that began their trek into the Land of Israel ultimately took 40 years but they began their trek across the desert into Israel first they encountered the yomps of the the splitting of the sea and then they were brought to har see night to Sinai where they received the Torah and this night called the night of Passover is also known as lale has Seder the Seder night when there's other people who call it the night of questions when we eat matza and we have Mara the bitter herbs this is a very very fundamental holiday in essence this farm right that this is a celebration of the Jewish nation me this is the birth of the Jewish nation now when they exit the tomah the impurity of the of the egypt and the egyptian nation and they are being led to be the people of god the people of the torah into the desert this is the celebration and the recognition of the people of a Shem the Jewish people as people of faith in God they entered a desert they entered a land with no water they entered with no food there was wild animals there was absolutely nothing and they followed God into the desert this is the holiday of emunah of belief and so on the first night which is delay us a there on the night of the seder we find the very interesting phenomenon we find that we encourage people and children to ask questions as is famous there's the mannish Tana the four questions that the children ask the Father and there are other things that are done specifically strange things that we do to encourage children to ask we want them to say that what are you doing cati what is that why do you dip this in that why do you lean over here why do you and the reason we're doing this is to get them to ask what's so important about asking what's so important about questions the answer is use the mouth speak give expression to your belief even your questions which will lead to answers which will bring out the faith that we are celebrating tonight call her marble is superb ET esma trying one who who exceedingly talks about the egg the exit from egypt the exodus from Egypt horizon is Shuba he is very praiseworthy what that means is talk give expression let it out let that emunah shine because it's there in the smallest of children to the oldest to the elder great-grandfather it's all there you just need to talk you need to let it out this is one of the messages of Pesach there's a actually in Kabbalah it's written that pesach is really two words pet pet which means your mouth suck which means talk petja the mouth talks give expression allow your mouth to talk because it will help you reveal what's deep inside it will help you learn more internalize and uncover that emunah that exists so this is one of the proofs that we have about the power of emunah specifically connected to the power of speech there's another also related to to the exodus from Egypt is another aspect Moshe Rabbeinu the leader of the Jewish people Moses who led the Jews out of Egypt had a speech impediment he could not speak well and when God told him at the burning bush at the snare that I want you to be the one like Uncle Sam I want you to be the one to take out the Jewish people from Egypt you would think after all motion was a lover of his brothers he went out even when he was living in the palace of pyro of Pharaoh he went out to help his brothers to see his brothers he loved Jews and when God told him this is it you're gonna be the one you take them out this is the moment you've all been waiting for oh she said well I don't know i don't speak very well now he'd been living for 80 years it never never seemed to get in the way to interfere with his day-to-day living and all of a sudden his speech impediment was a problem why and the answer is because he knew that with the power of speech he was going to reveal the hidden the deep already clocked clusters of impurity and filth and also of depression and persecution and hardship covered up the Jewish heart from its faith and he had to penetrate it he had to break through all of that to reveal the hidden depth the hidden emunah and part of that comes out through the mouth as we said the co haha deboard speaking helps you reveal to uncover that emunah and moshe a Boehner was afraid that he couldn't do it not because he didn't want to do it but because he felt that if one of the ways to reveal the depth the reveal the faith that lies in the Jewish heart is specifically through the power of speech he said I'm impaired I can't do it I won't be able to zero in to penetrate through all that difficulty and zero in on that Jewish faith in the heart and Hashem told him wherever you go and whatever you say I will be with your with your mouth one of the explanations of that what he meant was not that I will help you but that I'm already there don't worry Moshe Rabbeinu the belief in God already exists you don't need to teach them something new you need to reveal something that they already have you need to help them uncover it but you don't need to brainwash them or convince them it's already there so this is once again the power of speech specifically to help us rediscover the am Munna the belief the faith that we have inside to help us remove the layers that exist on top of the heart this is one of the things that they call Habib or the pet suck the mouth that talks helps us with so many times you will find that just king about faith just speaking about belief is something that will help you I don't want to use the word come to terms that's a bad word not come to term but it will help you learn the role or it will help you re internalize or realize what already exists that you're a believing individual that you have faith that it's in there this is something that we will continue bezrat hashem in the next segment you