The Real Reason You Were Given a Voice (It’s Not For Schmoozing)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

It's convenient that we also have speech to talk to one another. But if you ask why was speech created, what's its original purpose and intent is to talk to Hashem. Why? Because only when man said, "Hey, could someone make it rain around here? Nothing's growing. Nothing's happening. How do we fill the garden?" Hashem said, "Good. Now that you asked, I'm ready to give." It doesn't take a lot of courage to have a paid sabbatical. When the paycheck is still being transferred to your bank account, it doesn't take enormous courage. But when the farmer observes Shmita, and we've been privileged in our community to host farmers who observe Shmita, when a farmer observes, they shut it all down. There's no income. There's nothing flowing in. And they say, "What am I going to eat? How am I paying the bills? How am I paying?" Hashem says, "Don't worry. I got your back. I'm going to give you enough in the sixth year to cover the sixth year, the seventh year, and the eighth year." Wow. What a promise. which parathetically some bring as evidence that the Torah was written by Hashem, not man. Because in a religion, if man wrote the Torah and made that promise, don't worry, in the sixth year, you'll grow enough for the sixth year. How long would that religion be around? >> Six years. Because if in the sixth year it didn't grow enough for those three years, and you couldn't control it, then people would say, "It's a joke. That's not a real religion. Some man made it up." only only the omnipotent infinite almighty God who can make good on that promise would actually make that promise which he makes. So why the Torah formulated in when a person will say what am I going to eat? Why didn't the

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1. 0:00It's convenient that we also have speech to talk to one another. But if you ask…
2. 0:31the farmer observes Shmita, and we've been privileged in our community to host farmers who observe…
3. 1:02made that promise, don't worry, in the sixth year, you'll grow enough for the sixth year.…
4. 1:33Torah simply tell the farmer observe Shmita and take a deep breath, relax in the sixth…
5. 2:04but he doesn't transfer he doesn't give us we studied this as well. We each have…
6. 2:34world, he created a world with an ecoycle where it was supposed to rain. There's precipitation.…
7. 3:05God breathed life into us. And translates as he gave us the power of speech. What…
8. 3:37to talk to one another. But if you ask why was speech created, what's its original…
9. 4:07of man. Why? Because only when man said, "Hey, could someone make it rain around here?…
10. 4:38to transfer it to us. And how it gets transferred, sometimes we can see clearly and…

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