Just be quiet!

okay let's do this really quickly we're not going to talk about the power so let's talk about of ice ethics of our fathers chapter one one of the statements they are made by the great sage shimon the son of gamlia says i have grown up among the sages my entire life and i have not found anything better for the body than silence well i guess we're just gonna end the video here then so i'm just not gonna say anything [Music] okay the time would go so far as to say what is our task in this world what is like the purpose of life it's to be as silent as the dumb that is like taking this statement extolling the virtue of silence 100 times further the ultimate attainment in life is to be silent well let's understand this who is the one who is never silent god god speaks the world into existence at every moment god created and creates recreates animates the world and every aspect and detail into existence at every moment god is always speaking the world into existence why do we talk about god speaking the world into existence what does that mean god has a mouth god god says words well the reason the terror uses these words god's speech and god's voice and really whenever the terror kind of gives god human characteristics in its description of certain concepts it's only so that us you know mortal people limited people can gain some sort of insight into an abstract deeply spiritual concept that really is totally out of our frame of reference and we would never understand it without the terror using these words that we do understand in the context of our own life so hashem is obviously not limited to what these words mean to us but this is the terror's way this is hashem's way of conveying something to us so that we can understand it now let's understand what is this idea of speech well by saying that hashem speaks the world into existence the torah is telling us that just like speech the world is totally dependent upon hashem right i can only be speaking so long as i am saying those words once they are said they are separate from me the analog is quite clear and that is that hashem is constantly investing power into every detail of creation and yet hashem does this in a way where it seems separate from hashem where we can look at the world and things and people can feel as is by themselves their self there is one exception to this though there is one entity that exists in the world that is not existent due to an utterance of hashem the one exception of this is you is me it is the soul our soul god isn't creating it through speech in a way where it can feel separate and in a way that where like a word parted from the speaker no the soul is totally bound up and united with god for it is a peace of god literally so now it makes a little more sense eh what is our task in life to make the soul primary or to tap in to what is not god's speech silence we have to keep this in the forefront of our mind always for so many reasons but i would say primarily so that we can look at one another and realize just how one we are we can love more live with more joy you will live with more joy when when your soul is primary we will love more and let me encourage you to study some more torah and do another mitzvah with more enthusiasm this is mushy achmod and when we're going to do this our soul's mission our collective souls mission will be completed in a revealed way and we will see mashiach we will experience the ultimate and final redemption immediately