This weeks Words of Prayer, Words of Kindness is prepared
in the merit of
Zelig Pinchas
ben Itta Leah
for a complete and speedy Refuah (healing),
Refuat HaNefesh,
Refuat HaGuf
(Healing of body
and soul).
Shmiras
HaLashon Thought
When we
were children we learned a rhyme: "Sticks and stones will break my bones
but words will never harm me". The Torah teaches a different lesson. Words
are very powerful. When used in the positive they have the power to heal, to
bring blessing, to comfort, to teach, to inspire and more. When used in the
negative they do the very opposite. For this reason we have laws of guarding
our tongues which includes not hurting another with ones words either
emotionally, spiritually or damaging their reputation, their name or their very
Parnassa.
The
Torah teaches further that we are to be very careful with our actions that we
do not place a stumbling block before another or do anything that could in
anyway cause harm, damage or pain to another Jew and in deed to any part of
Hashem's Creation.
Although
we are supposed to learn from everything, we should also be selective as to
what we teach our children and how powerful and often completely incorrect and
distorted the rhymes, songs, poems etc are that we expose our children to.
Bitachon
Thought
The Gomorrah
of Berachos 33b teaches us that everything is in the Hand of Heaven, except for
Fear of Heaven. That means how much money we earn, who we come into contact
with, whether our plans succeed or not, whether we have health or not, family
or not, friends etc. EVERYTHING is in the Hand of Heaven.
Knowing
this, can help to give us comfort and the strength to stop worrying, after all,
if everything is being taken care of by Hashem, it is a waste of energy to worry
about it. This knowledge can also help us to grasp where to focus our attention
and work / effort. Since the one thing that is in our control is Yirat Shamayim
or Fear of Heaven, this seems to be where we might focus on strengthening and
asking Hashem to grant us strong Yirat Shamayim (Fear of Heaven)
Tehillim
Thought
In
keeping with this, Tehillim 3:7 reads "I do not fear the tens of thousands
of people that have set themselves against me round about." Even though
the majority was following Absalom who was going against David HeMelech, still
David HaMelech did not fear them. He was aware that as much as they tried to
harm the physical they could not harm his soul. (Meam Loez)
If we
link this with the Bitachon Thought above, David HaMelech through his Tehillim
teaches us very clearly the above teaching that everything is in the Hands of
Heaven, therefore he did not fear the people, but rather only Hashem.
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Shabbat
Shalom to everyone
Shoshanah
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