Tetzaveh - Lashon Tov

Hi, this is the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you a little insight into the para and we're going to focus this week on parava the big day kahuna and explains it's also that the big day kahuna each one of the was made to bring forgiveness for different sins and it goes through what the different sins are and it says the miel heel, which is this poncho made out of solid blue with little bells and little balls on the bottom of it so that when you walk it jingles. Yeah. The miel gets forgiveness for the sin of lash and har. Why? Because let the begged that makes noise get kapora for the sin that is caused by making noise which is of course lashar. So how exactly is the miel? I understand it makes noise but what's the relationship the and the malim both sort of explain this idea and that is the following. A m is a begged that is specifically for important people. A male is a begged. You see this by that has a miel. You see it by a mel that he has a m. A m is a beed. I remember seeing a sign years ago that said great people speak about ideas. Average people speak about things. Small people talk about other people cuz that's all that they can think of. Yeah. And it's sad, but it's true. People who feel good about themselves don't have to put other people down. If the only way you can build yourself up is by attacking other people and speaking about them and trying to make them look bad and embarrass them in front of other people, it doesn't say much about you. It must be you have so little to offer that the only way that you can feel important is by putting other people down. So therefore, the real cure for lush and hurah is lush and tove. Speak well. So what do I do? I give you a miel. This is a very important baguette because you're a very important person. And I put little bells at the bottom of your baguette. And in between I put little They're not called little balls. They're called little remmon pomegranates. Why? Because there's a tradition that a pomegranate has 613 seeds. I don't know if this is true or not. I had a daughter who used to try every year to count and somebody would always eat one of them and it would always turn out poorly. But I don't know. I have never counted it. But that's the tradition. It has 613 seeds. It's filled with mitzvah. You know how you ring the bell? Bang into a pomegranate. If the noise that you make is coming from tarag mitzvah, if the noise that you're making is coming because you're doing something good, you'll find it's so much nicer to say good things about people than bad things about people. And people who make that effort to say good things, they're able to change the world. I've told this story before. I don't know if I've told in the parish five, but it's one of my favorite stories because I have an older brother, Gdalia, who's one of my heroes. And he was once at Davening and these two guys are talking through the Korea satire. And he says, "Please, I can't hear the Ka." And they said, "Okay." And a minute later, they start talking again. And he says to them, "You're coming to Shaw. You want to do a mitzvah. Why would you sit here and talk through the laning? And they said, "No, no, you're right." And a minute later, they start talking again. So, so I got upset. Now, when an Olavski gets upset, that usually means something different than this story. That's why I say my he's he's one of my heroes. [snorts] He looked at them and he said, "I'm a cohen." And in this of you not talking during the deting, I give you a bra. You should get a large perna this year. And they stopped talking. At the end, one of them said, "You think all I care about is money?" To which I would have said, "Obviously, it was the only way I could get you to be quiet." [laughter] But my brother said, "No, I just know that a person like you would know how to use the parnosa that a bar gave you for." The person walked away feeling so hushive and so good about himself that it allowed him to walk away and feel like a mench. Let us stop speaking lash and hurah by speaking lushian to good chabas.