The Power of Listening | Rosh Chodesh Av

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

[Music] is this is the war cry of the Jewish people so the last thing you say before you go to sleep is the last thing you say before you leave your body at the end of your life it's it's not a Prayer by the way because we're not speaking to hasem is listen Jewish people hasem infinite Creator Beyond time and space El is also completely imminently present in the world but don't think there are two Gods there's just one God it's all God two different aspects of one God not that there are two Gods God forbid there's only God Israel what does shma mean listen listen hear understand integrate if I say to you listen to me what am I saying to you pay attention pay attention to what I'm telling you get the lesson learn from this get insight so there's listening to music in the background it's not called listening necessarily you're just hearing the music people say for example I don't feel hurt in my relationship I don't feel heard that relationship I don't feel heard that means that I'm speaking but they're not receiving what I have to say so we really have these two parts of a relationship there's speaking and then there's hearing listening to what someone else is saying and speaking we said a few times is the way that we bring our internal World out into the external World our thoughts and emotions we express our thoughts and emotions through our speech so it's really bringing out our

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2. 2:09speech so it's really bringing out our deepest inner world to someone so that's why the…
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4. 6:52in yes Shiva are you just getting some information or are you integrating that are you…
5. 9:26about speaking you have seeing you have eating you even have sleeping K is sleep so…
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7. 14:03years I I was a DJ dance music DJ so music was quite important to me…
8. 16:04it's called basic is hatred I just I just hate you there's no reason to hate…
9. 18:36that someone gave the example imagine you like help an old lady across the street with…
10. 20:40much don't be the giver the speaker be the one who's just listening just learn to…

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