The Splendor of Shabbos #12: Elevated Speech

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

okay so actually I'm going to mute everyone and then we'll get started feel free to unmute to question or comment okay so today I want to talk a bit about the concept that is uh first appears in the na'vi in the Prophet yesaiah um where we find a number of important details and aspects of chabas important details and aspects of chabas and the focus today will be the um which literally means you you will speak words um and uh in the context of the verse I guess let's read the verse and we'll see the verse says it's in yesah Isaiah parak F Chapter 58 it says if you restrain your foot because of sh and from performing your sh and from performing your Affairs on my holy day and you call shabas a delight the honored one for the Holy One for and honored you honor from um doing your going your own ways from pursuing your own needs and ways from pursuing your own needs and Affairs and speaking words so in the context of the verse actually speaking words is you are restraining from speaking certain words on chabas so then I didn't put on the source sheet but if we do all this so then the next verse says then shabas will be a delight or you'll Delight in in God um and uh you'll be rewarded with the the the portion of Jacob and the whole thing so so these are understood to be

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1. 0:05okay so actually I'm going to mute everyone and then we'll get started feel free to…
2. 4:14from the way we speak on shabas and all thear tells us is the way you…
3. 8:20is another medieval commentator the way that he says it is we shouldn't waste words and…
4. 12:31permitted if you don't enjoy it and you're just doing it for uh for you know…
5. 16:40business and then he adds and even just talking about the mundane it's forbidden to speak…
6. 20:50through work but simply through speech and so when God rested so what did he actually…
7. 24:57relates to a different idea that you find in be find in the commentaries regarding the…
8. 29:13unique when it comes to shabas regarding M so the mishna in m is a tith…
9. 33:20chabas to actually speak in a in a more truthful way and we can trust specifically…
10. 37:28okay it's okay during the week to uh speak about mil it's okay during the week…

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