In Biology today we learned about the complex actions that
go on in the human body, specifically the cell. There are 10 trillion cells in
our body. In each cell there is so much going on. However, each cell is
literally a couple micrometers and only with a refined microscope that
magnifies 40 times the a single cell (lets say from your saliva), only then you
can see what your saliva cells look like.
What does this have to do with Hodesh Av, with Tisha B’Av,
which is in 9 days? There is an entire spiritual world microscope, or at least
invisible to the naked physical eye. If someone with many years of Torah
learning and keeping a Kedusha/Tahara (purity) lifestyle, then they can view
the world with a spiritual eye. But for most of us, we don’t see what is spiritually
going on and rather learn from Hazal and the Gemara, Midrashim, Zohar etc. what
is really going on.
Besides for previous CLDs which spoke about Sinat Hinam
(brotherly hatred), which caused the destruction of the Bet HaMikdash, Lashon Hara
(gossip, whether true or false) is another action people took that caused the
destruction! Today on the street it is normal and almost encouraged to trash
talk a person! All you hear on the subway is people speaking about other people
and how wrong they are or any other negative characteristic! There is so much zilzul, desensitization, in our words
and they way we use speech that it has become normal to be careless about what
we say.
Therefore, just like the cell, which its existence is a fact
in science, is believed upon everyone, so too should the spiritual world and
the harm we cause from what we say! In order to bring the Mashiah closer and
the rebuilding of the Bet HaMikdash, we must begin to watch what we say! This
is also directly connected (thank G-d look how everything is connected) with
our Parasha which speaks about swearing in G-d’s name and how strict it is for
someone to swear! We should stop swearing, stop gossiping and trashtalking
eachother, attract more love between one another and watch what we say! How
hard is it really to create an invisible filter in our minds and begin thinking
before we speak? I am speaking to myself as well, we have published things that
we should not have published the way we did! Also its such a Kiddush Hashem
because non-Jews see how formal and respectful Jews are if we have a set of
manners with our speech.
Let’s begin this
month with a new outlook on what comes out of our mouths.
Shabbat Shalom &
Hodesh Tov!
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