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Parsha Perspectives (Matos-Masei, 5782) - Kashering Ourselves

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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the write up that you can get delivered right to your inbox every week right up on the partial perspectives okay this week we have a double powershot we're finally catching up with eric's estral matos and massa we begin with matas page 900 in the art scroll stone and then the torah tells us moshe spoke to the heads of the tribes and he said the following this is the thing that god has commanded what did god command if a person takes a vow a person makes a pledge or a promise o is to distinguish between that which is holy and that which is profane so holy we use our words to create and to build holiness don't profane your words don't make your words cooler speech is sacred it's holy we can construct we can build or we can destroy we can eliminate we can knock down if we use our power of speech properly we can create and build and if we abuse the power of speech we misuse it to slander the gossip to criticize to complain then we've taken our very word we've turned it into something whole the potential for holiness and sanctity and we've made it something which is profane and mundane holyoke everything you promise everything you pledge everything you say you're going to do you need to and you must do last year we focused on this and shared several interpretations of it i told you an amazing story of maury varabe who to this day does not take sugar in his teeth because he once told someone he doesn't loyal whatever you say has to be true whatever we say we have to follow through our word has to be our bond it has to mean something rashes says

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