The Mysterious Power of Speech (AI)

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

Let's imagine a person who has a device in his house with two levers. The first lever when pulled causes the device to start dispensing dollars. $1 plus $1 every minute up to $200. The second lever when pulled releases a club that strikes him and breaks his bones. The question is which lever would the person prefer to pull? Which one would he choose to use? King Solomon who was wiser than any man teaches us about a tool in our body that we can use either for good or for bad. That is it can either upgrade the That is it can either upgrade the quality of our life taking us to higher levels or destroy our lives through this very tool. And this tool is our mouth. The mouth generates dispenses $1 plus $1, word after word. If you calculate the mouth can speak 200 words a minute and with this mouth a person can create and influence great things. But a person can also destroy himself, literally break his bones through the words he speaks. Let's read King Solomon's words in Proverbsap 10:13. In the sin of lips, there is a harmful trap, but the there is a harmful trap, but the righteous escapes from trouble. In the sin of lips, there is a harmful trap. When a person sins with his lips, meaning he doesn't pay attention to what he says, speaking words recklessly, Solomon calls this a sin. Solomon says that the sin of the lips is like a harmful trap. A trap is something that sets an obstacle in the way. Not just any obstacle, but one that is very difficult to escape from. In modern Hebrew, when we talk about traps, we mean explosives. But in Solomon's time, there were no explosives. A trap is something a person stumbles upon and falls into. The Malbim, one of the

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2. 4:06who cannot apologize. A word of apology could have saved an entire relationship or job. They…
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4. 12:22stage. how righteous they were, how many miracles they performed, how powerful their blessings were, how…
5. 16:34Sometimes parents with just a slip of the tongue can lower a child's self-esteem. The same…
6. 21:08speech. I appreciate that you always do the shopping. People forget sometimes, not just you. it…
7. 25:13someone who says, "I really want to change. I have a problem. I have no control…
8. 29:19"The Lord opens the eyes of the blind." She told him that she would imprison him,…
9. 33:28completely. When I heard this story, I thought to myself, where did the rabbi get this…
10. 37:33But the difference between this and all other animals is that when the human body was…

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