As you know, we (the girls) divided up the book "Praying with Fire". Thank you TBC. I don't have the book with me, and I hadn't learned one of my lessons, so I called up Tova Bracha and she learned it with me. It seems so appropriate to have learned it today, because it portrayed Bubby a"h very well.
Lesson 72 talks about one's mouth. Rabbi Heshy Kleinman says that if one wants to turn to G-d in prayer, he must make sure the tool that he is using, namely the mouth, is a clean, sterilized tool.
For example, a doctor cannot perform a surgery with an unclean surgical tool. If he does, he will not be able to heal his patient. He can do the procedures professionally, but an unsterilized knife can c"v spread disease. So too, we must make sure to use our mouths in only holy, clean ways so that when we approach Hashem, we can can accomplish our goal of having our tefillos reach Him.
What are clean ways to use our mouth? Speaking nicely to others, watching what comes out of our mouths, etc.
Bubby a"h is the best example I can for a person who only used her mouth for holy tasks. No one has ever heard an unkind word come out of her holy mouth. May we all learn from her, and be able to make her proud.
A Gut Moed.
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