Granting Speech - R' Ilan Halberstadt

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

Hashem has given us a [music] wonderful gift. It's called the power of speech. Very often, our greatest gift is [music] also our greatest challenge. He's given us the power of speech to pray to him, to learn Tyra, to encourage others. And when we do so, we build worlds and we build others. But it can also be used negatively to harm others, to embarrass others, to say negative things to other people. Where did I learn this message of the power of speech most from? Probably from the rashiva of yeshiva had Parkinson's and it made it very difficult for him physically but he carried on with incredible strength to build the yeshiva and to give sharim. One time he was giving a shear and as the shear progressed it became harder and harder for him to speak and he slowed down having a difficult time just getting getting out the words from his mouth until he slowed down to a point where he just [music] stopped and he could not continue anymore and he looked out at the tamidim and they looked at him and there was a silence for a long time he was desperate to continue but just couldn't at that point he picked himself

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1. 0:06Hashem has given us a [music] wonderful gift. It's called the power of speech. Very often,…
2. 0:36the rashiva of yeshiva had Parkinson's and it made it very difficult for him physically but…
3. 1:06couldn't at that point he picked himself up and he opened and he opened to shishenu…
4. 1:36governing to Hashem that he should be able to continue the sh? And amazingly, he was…

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