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צוואת הריב"ש 133

Tzava'at HaRivash · Chapter 133

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    כל המרבה דברים מביא חטא. פי' חיסרון שאפי' כשמדבר דברים עם בני אדם בחכמת התורה מ"מ השתיקה יפה מאד יותר שיוכל יותר בשתיקה לחשוב בגדולתו יתברך ולקשר א"ע יותר משיקשר את עצמו בדיבור:

    It states,237Mishnah Avot 1:17 “Whoever indulges in too many words brings sin-Cheit,” which means “a lacking.”238See Rashi to Genesis 31:39 That is, even if you speak the wisdom of Torah with others, nevertheless, silence is much more preferable, because when you are silent, you can contemplate the greatness of HaShem, blessed is He, and bond to Him to a much greater degree than when you bond to Him while speaking. (However, if you have not yet attained the ability to bond to Him in silence, it is better to speak words of Torah and bond to Him thereby)

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    לפעמים שוכב במטה ונראה לב"א שהוא ישן והוא באותה שעה מתבודד עצמו עם הבורא ית'.

    At times, a person could be laying in his bed and it appears to others that he is sleeping, but all the while he is secluding himself with HaShem, blessed is He, and bonding to Him.

Hebrew: Warsaw, 1913 · Public Domain

English: The Way of The Baal Shem Tov. Adapted into English by Rabbi Amiram Markel and Yehudah Shimon Markel, 2020 · CC-BY

Texts from Sefaria.