The Soul of Israel: The Secret of Speech - Less is More

[Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] they shallow everyone you're listening to the soldiers good morning my dear brother have a re upon one's Shalom of did you cross the Red Sea last Shabbos and are you ready for the tour of the Shabbos I'm I hopefully will be after anything but no person on the certain no pressure on you but you've been gone for a week I've only was only gone for two days do you know okay in my life really it was really really tangible I accept your apology because I feel like an apology is in order right now I went to Chicago for a few days and was a very very special trip but whenever I leave as thankful as I am for the opportunities any day I miss with my chevre here you feel it and I'm happy it hurts not you I'm happy it hurts me I'm happy it's hard for me because it's very good just like this morning coming back to learning was just just so special to be back together again it really helps me understand because I had to be honest when you know there's the ID you shouldn't go three days without hearing the Torah read and it doesn't always affect me so profoundly if I miss a Monday morning domine that I feel like I actually feel tangible shifts in my consciousness and that's a reflection on my spiritual standing and not anything else but I can get it more I get the idea more now with our Habra because I start really feeling more disoriented and confused it's a very routing thing and even this morning when you know that I wanted to just say okay at the end like what's the topless here and then I said it's really not about the taco it's just just all of these questions that we're asking that is the polling thing right so again every you're always invited to join us online right now those classes are all on my soundcloud page and on my YouTube page and almost all of them are on Facebook live so just find me and join us but we're working on something bigger to present the world but for now that's those the medium through which we can connect with each other so thank thank thank Ashim for that at least I always find myself between the parsha of career at the ensive which was Lavis and the I shove the giving of the Torah which is this coming Shabbos somewhat of a week of column I'd I feel like it's too big yawn to us which it was because last Shabbos what we celebrated was like the seventh day of pacer crossing of the sea and this coming Shabbos we're celebrating they were giving of the Torah which is Lewis and in between Pesach and Shoeless you have spirit oh man so you have like a week of Shraddha oh my like a week of the in-between and there's so much to discuss I always get very overwhelmed when it comes to two parts yet whenever we you know if I have to give a dresser a sermon in shul or give a class on parsha beret sheet and ye it's ro because I'm always like what in the world how in the world where do you start where do you start where do you go from here so I had to just pull myself back down sick it was so what am I really trying to convey what do I really want to hear why why is you true because you get the Torah you standing around signing you receive the Torah and it's just overwhelming so overwhelming it's so overwhelming so something does come to mind but it's based on a very very beautiful story that took place about 190 years ago in the Bhavik in the town Lubavitch where the Lubavitcher seceding are from the second Rebbe in about his name was ripped off bare he was the mid the Mittler Rabi the 2nd Rabi them the middle ear means middle but he was waved between his father and that somewhat select the third one the middle or a be very very very deep very profound also ascribe his works are massive very cabbalistic very very very mystic and he would speak for hours and hours when he would start you know like they say in Hebrew a protest will come when he would like start his game he could last for hours and hours and hours of just speaking and talking and talking secret after secret after secret mesmerizing Kratz his father the alter rebbe reb near Salman of Li Ali the founder of the Habad movement was known for his sermons to be his classes to be much more condensed much shorter much smaller so at one time an elderly huset who was this is already after the first Rebbe passed away one of the older calcium that used to follow the first Rebbe and now was by this son overheard a group of young Hassidim said Wow look what we have now we have someone that can talk for hours and hours and hours talk Torah the older generation they had someone he could eat and eat and speak for that long look look how much better we have in now and the old custard overheard those words and he said oh this breaks my heart to hear such a thing he said you see when the deeper a person is and the more can the more concentrated they are and what they're trying to say the less they have to actually say where did we learn this from we learned it from our Pasha but before we get into that what he was referencing to was that the author Tybee was very clearly what he was trying to say and the clarity with which the the meaning escorted the words of his mouth was very everything was together so he wouldn't have to talk that much in fact he could put out a magnum opus called Tanya write fifty three chapters that cover basically everything he ever wanted to tell anybody now can you imagine if you had to put together sign me up something that included within it anything you ever wanted to tell anybody who knows where it would begin and who knows where it would end so this older class it said I feel so bad for you young succeed in bed now because of you where you guys are at and where you need to be reached it takes the rabi's so much longer to tell them what they want to say because who knows if could ever get to you but where did we learn this concept from we learned it from the giving of the Torah according to Kazan according to our holy sages how much did we actually hear directly from Hashem when it says we heard God's voice first two commandment so there's three opinions one of them is it's the first two Commandments which is an oath here Shimon look I am the God and the second one is none that the non like this the gloves he said look at a chef so that's one opinion the other two opinions are that all we heard was the first word unknown e and it we couldn't we couldn't tolerate it and the third explanation is that the third statement is that all we heard was the of a note of the olive of the word uh no see behave of the air with the with is which in the letter of Aleph like ah that's all we heard from my sermon that was enough and we told Moshe Rabbeinu please tell him stop because our bodies were you know our souls were leaving our bodies but what it really comes down to is that when you really really really have something to tell somebody and you know exactly what you want to tell them you really really do not have to use a lot of words and I think that that shows how far we are these days from really speaking to people because it's the world of talkbacks it's the world of threads it's the world of column after column after column articles getting on the one hand shorter and shorter because we see that people have a different you know attention deficit disorder they can't listen for so long but it was up to you to the writer they would write McGillis every chance they had because really what do you really have to share with the world when you know what you want to share with the world you barely have to say anything really have to say anything there was once a Hasidic master his name was read Mendeleev Orca the town of Orca he was known as the silent Rebbe because legend has it is not legend but this the tales followed the go as follows that the Hasidim would sit with them for three four five six hours they'd just be in his presence he wouldn't say anything and then after like hours he would just say Hashem they located him ms something like that God our God is truth and somehow they were able to receive everything being needed from the manner in which those few words were spoken also the manner and that time of silence was right there is something about that time they spent with him of course of course to say that it's it's both you need that quiet because when you said that story I was picturing you know after before we you give sheering often there's the right and the sort of pushes it in you know so I thought maybe that was like just the conclusion that was like pushing it in like the way and like I mean you know one day the great rib maybe it's like we did she recalled in his whole town to show and he said I have a feeling very very very very important to share it every one so everyone comes to the synagogue and they're waiting for some kind of leak you know incredible statement or whatnot or some kind of like very you know impressive discourse or maybe he was had an announcement that he was moving somewhere he caused them all in the middle of the week and they all show up to show and they're all standing there and it's quiet and he says I just had to tell you all that God really does exist and then he left and they went home so I have this really weird red Sun most of the time before I go up to give a sermon here and I send a guy yeah I sometimes I have a smart idea a nice idea a good story but half of me and I'm not sure if it's the cop outside of me or or it's really coming from my deepest depths it wants to go up to the Bema go up to the pulpit and just say that same thing because essentially if I really really really knew that God existed would I need all the other stories would I need all the other build ups would I need all the other teachings that somehow bring me to the same spot it was only one time in the world when God said exactly exactly exactly what he wanted to tell him in beings and was only one time he spoke to us once at Mount Sinai and we heard exactly what God wanted to tell us whether it was the first two commandments where there was the first word or whether it was just the air within the first letter forming the word but that's what make it made Mount Sinai as powerful as it was because look God spoke to us once since then and we're still figuring out what he meant that's how powerful that statement was that it lasts forever and when you really really love someone when you really like someone when you really feel like you're in a state of gratitude when you really find yourself in a state of wanting to express and you've refined your thoughts you really really barely need any words one time Joni Mitchell met ripp slow-mo Kaba and told him and she heard him singing a song without words right she was like yeah I mean anyone that's listening to us that was born before nineteen eighty or eighty-five you know knows Joni Mitchell so Joni and she's not she wasn't she's not a not a Jewish sister all these sister non-jewish holy sister and she said to Rabbi Carlebach oh that's my dream he to put out an album just like you just did based on the song because and I love them based on like a song you just did it was just just that she said my husband won't let me though because it won't work in the market people need words people need a lot of stuff but really when you really have what the same you don't really need that much where's deal which means they say the have deal make a very clear distinction right there's a great great tune by Neil Young called Cinnamon Girl and the solo is very very powerful and the solo is just one note over and over and over again at a certain point in the song and it's almost like he's saying exactly what he wants to say he's not confused he's not getting mixed up and you're actually receiving it as well so it'd be a such a more beautiful world I believe we always say people would start talking to each other more I think it'd be more beautiful world people would talk to each other less but say exactly what they want to say to people and I think that um that'll bring a lot a lot more yeesh of a diet what we call the selling of the soul of the mind I see the social media world really messes with us like that we take in so much information and very very little of it has any real relevance in our lives and is really even talking to us it just stays up there in the chamber of tree of knowledge and only consuming space not creating more space for us thought that ever says there are certain thoughts you could have there certain words you could say that don't take up more space they create more space in the world they make more space for you to breathe God said the word enoki and we've been breathing that word in day in day out for thousands of years so I can only bless you and myself to master this art I want to talk less not just less bad things less in general God gave me the power of speech I don't want to become you know mute god forbid but I do want to know that it's possible for me to think more clearly before I speak about what it is I'm trying the same speak less but when I do speak it's exactly what I mean I think that's part of a bigger prayer gonna be loud for the whole world we'll be able to hear each other more when there's lists that when there's less static when there's less talking with each other so do we stand the chance I think so I think so too I pray so I pray so I really want to send the real brother right now to all couples to really believe in the power of speech that a Shem gave you that if your spouse needs to hear something from you that you first pause before you say whatever you think you want to say and ask yourself what am I really trying to say and trust that the message will come across with less words that's a hard avodah a hard it's a hard thing to conquer it's a very hard it's very hard this could be a little bit of a sidetrack I'm just thinking of one thing you know a year ago and for the entirety of my life before that year I always hated dogs and it's so fascinating to me the shift that's happened inside of me with with dogs and it's like I now have this dog named scoop and the other night he somehow got out and he was running around and there was whipping freezing winds and hail it felt like a 15 year old kid who's shooting me in the head with a BB gun again and again and I was running through outside looking for my dog with these whippin freezing hell in my face and he's never said a word to me he's never said one word to me and yet he's still been able to engender this type of love and loyalty and I said you know I really have to reassess something about these words that I like Holden and enshrine so much look maybe it does look it definitely sound like a little bit of a detour as you began speaking but the truth is maybe I mean it's a big lean with a big lesson in terms of really how we use speech or not and we all know it really depends on that and really how we master that one area in our in our life because words can kill not just that they kill people and with their emotions they kill time they killed time at turmoil you I have some time to kill it's a horrible thing to do with with an excessive amount of words that aren't really going anywhere you're wasting everyone's time so anyway in the merit of receiving the Torah this coming Shabbos we receiving of it again Hashem should bless all of us to be more in tune with the gift of speech and to trust but when it comes to speech more than any other thing [Music] today [Music] Oh [Music] I do daddy Oh [Music] Bato [Music] Oh