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The Yanuka’s own words in this shiur, translated into English by Lehallel · 452 words · 1:54. Press a time to hear it said.
0:00 The closer we were to the Revelation at Mount Sinai, the Torah was given in thought. They had the ability to review the Torah in thought. The handing down of the Oral Torah - that came down to speech. So today we are down below. We have gone down below - 'and she came down wondrously, she has no comforter.' In the footsteps of Mashiach, this is already - we are at the root of action. We cannot hold on through thought. Therefore, this generation has a great many thoughts that confuse a person. It is written in Sefer Chassidim, siman 46 - what you say: 'with their lips they honor Me, but their heart is far from Me.'
0:25 When a person learns something, says something, he must say it all the time with intention, between the speech and the thought - what he says. Why? Because if he does not say it so, then it is 'with their lips they honor Me, but their heart is far from Me.' That is to say, you can even expound it as even worse. That if you are still learning something and it is not in union with the thought, then that is not good. Because you, Heaven forbid, mention the name of Hashem, mention holy things, and you do not mean them. So you see, you learn from this that it is very important that a person say the words out loud.
0:53 When you learn the Torah out loud and with strength, all the limbs hear. The bones - 'all my bones shall say.' All my bones, all the limbs - and you sanctify the bones, you sanctify the table, you sanctify the walls, you sanctify all of creation, everything becomes holy, and then the imprint remains on the body. Because when a person sins, or when a person hears voices of impurity, people go around today, now, hearing voices, hearing vanities, the vanities of human beings, all kinds of sins, all kinds of events. These vanities cling to the bones.
1:19 Thought is only for a person who is in a secluded place, who secludes himself, who is not in contact with people - for him thought will help. But when a person is among many people, and is in a place bustling with people, the voices of the creatures, their voices, and the noise, and their desires for sins, and the street, and the marketplace, and everything together, these vanities, and the talk of transgressions, and lashon hara are engraved in the air. And when a person comes, he gathers, absorbs it into his body.
1:47 When a person learns Torah out loud, he cleanses the limbs, cleanses the bones and purifies them.
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