EMETTalk - Rabbi Mordechai Kraft - Perfecting Our Speech!

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I'd like to introduce our first speaker. You guys all know him and love him very much. Please help me welcome Rabbi Morai Craft. [applause and music] The power of speech where the soul fuses with the body is actually in speech. It says that breathed the soul into he became a became a speaking creature. That means when we exercise the power of speech, we're actually getting in touch speech, we're actually getting in touch with the deepest part of who we are, which is in the shama. And that's why I think we have an expression. We understand that we can create worlds of speech and we destroy worlds of speech. The question really is how do we engage the real speech that we want to say? How do we discover the soul coming out of ourselves in a way that our words can impact another [music] in a way that we can actually have conversations that are meaningful? How many times have we had conversations we walked away and said nothing really happened and sometimes we've walked away and said wow that was really special. The difference between really special. The difference between those two conversations is we've exercised and accessed the nishama through our speech. The question is how do we get there? So our sages tell us exactly how to do it. It says, "I grew up amongst the sages." Says, "I grew up among the sages and what did I find? I found the best thing for my body was actually silence." Imagine someone grows grows up amongst the sages. A place where you could hear wisdom. And what does he say? I learned

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1. 0:00I'd like to introduce our first speaker. You guys all know him and love him very…
2. 0:30speech, we're actually getting in touch with the deepest part of who we are, which is…
3. 1:01really special. The difference between those two conversations is we've exercised and accessed the nishama through…
4. 1:33wisdom. And what does he say? I learned from the sages. I learned from the how…
5. 2:03silences and actually the soul comes through the mouth. So if we want to have a…
6. 2:33anyone at this seminar, at this retreat. Learn to cultivate the power of a silent moment…
7. 3:04and the story goes that the andos they sat together for 20 minutes without saying a…
8. 3:34each other. In those 20 minutes of silence, there was a dialogue. If two people are…
9. 4:05me did you have any good conversations and I said I had one you had very…
10. 4:36Silence. And again, I tell girls this when they go out and they want to have…

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