Speech - R. Joey Haber - TorahAnytime.com

Let me tell you something very powerful about speech. It's a mish and then I'm going to end with a little story. The pukish says like this. Edim, the witness that lies will ultimately be gone. He will be destroyed. He'll be gone. But the man who listens forever he will speak. What does this mean? The man who lies will be destroyed. But the person who listens. So taking some compilation of what the commentaries say with a little addition and spice on our own. Here's what it means. If you talk, you blabber. Sometimes your talk is the truth. Sometimes it's 60% the truth. Sometimes it's exaggerated. Sometimes it's not even accurate. Those people, those words, your vet, they'll be gone. They don't last very long. But the person that listens and doesn't speak means he will always speak. What does it mean? The person who listens will always speak. What it means is the person that listens. And she says, "The person who listens to what the Torah says what not to talk about, if a person listens to the Torah's instructions of not speaking and not using foul language and not lying and not exaggerating and not gossiping. If a person listens to all of that, they will always speak." What does it mean they'll always speak? What that means is this is if you're a blabbermouth and you say all kinds of tall stories, short stories, exaggerated stories, lying stories, gossiping stories, your words, they get lost. But if you listen to the Torah's instructions of when to speak and when not to speak, your mouth will always be powerful. You'll always be able to speak because if you're careful to be silent when you should, then when you talk, you'll be heard.