How to get to the top of the universe

The great Israeli writer Yuval Noah Harari, in his bestseller From animals to gods explains how he was that the Homo sapiens, being one of the most fragile and weakest living beings on the planet's food scale, has managed to become the owner of the universe. From his view of the scientific world, he suggests that what made the Homo sapiens He managed to be above all other living things was faith. Trust. Confuse, trust someone, something.

Trust generates strong social bonds. When we trust someone, we arrive on each side. Have confidence in a child and make him feel that this confidence will give him the security that allows him to do anything. Trusting the person you love will make each night a full moon night and romance. Generating trust in the circle of friends, in the community, in the people, will allow us to reach the summit of the universe. The trust links are what generates Homo sapiens the opportunity to bond with others and start growing by becoming social beings.

Trust. The faith. Harari explains it in a very interesting symbol: money. A simple piece of rectangular paper with a number. However, for nothing Homo sapiens He has more faith. It is only the faith that makes someone give his car, his house or the merchandise manufactured in exchange for a paper with a number. The same faith that took the paper in that this same paper will be received by another Homo sapienswho will change it, in turn, based on shared deep faith, food, security or comfort

Such a deep faith that crosses geographies and ideologies. With a paper of these, made by the Homo sapiens Americans, you can go to Iran, Russia or North Korea, and the newspaper will also be very well received. Pure faith

Now well, there is an all-powerful tool that we have the Homo sapiens, who is the one who generates trust and differentiates us from the rest of the beings on the planet: the gift of speech. The word generates trust. In a nutshell, we can create deep bonds, build an entire world and reach the top of it.. And we can destroy everything.

A supreme tool. Lips in the service of poems of love and beauty. Or lips trapped by anger, rancor and baseness. Words that inspire endless songs. Or the murmurs of other people who talk about envy and failures.

The Book of Proverbs (18:21) says: "Hajaim ve hamavet bidei haLashon", "Life and death in the hands of the tongue". Say it Talmud in the treaty of Arajin that a sword can kill a person. He can even kill up to two people. But there is only one sword that can kill three: the tongue. Because the language kills the speaker, kills the listener and kills the person you are talking about.

Repeating something you hear becomes an accomplice. As the TalmudIt is part of a murder. In a nutshell, you can build, but also destroy and kill. It's a sword. He tells us the Talmud that no one is saved from "lashon hara", "the language of evil".

Rashi, one of the greatest exegetes of the tenth century in France (in his exegesis at Deut 1:12), says that when the Israelites in the wilderness saw Moses coming out of his tent early in the morning, they said: "Be sure He's beaten with his wife." And if they saw him leaving late, they would say, "He's been sitting there all morning thinking and plotting something against us." There will always be something to say.

The word can build or can destroy whole worlds, relationships, trusts. No one is saved from "lashon hara".

The great Bernard Shaw said, "Gossip is like a wasp, if you can not kill it at once, it's better not to spoil it." We talk about more, we talk about each other, under the pretext that others have said, without going through the filter of the truth, nor of the responsibility, to know it. is necessary for one, if necessary for something, or how much it can be damaged.

Lack of trust, the erosion of faith begin to undermine the bonds. It keeps us away and, in loneliness, we become fragile again. We go back to the staff first and then to society. We stop governing our lives. We stop being the owners of our universe. When we do not know how to live, we end up without living.

However, we have a tool that overcomes the "lashon hara": the "Lashon haTov", the "language of good". Speak well, think well. Talking cute and well about your child strengthens him, turning him into someone who has more self-confidence. Talking well and beautiful of your loved ones beautifies them and makes them grow. Talk about your friends, your people, make them all powerful.

We should start talking more nicely about Argentina. As my mother said, the problem we have is that when we talk about Argentina, we usually talk about "this country" and not about "our country". It's about talking about ours, about having more confidence in what belongs to us. More confidence in our Argentina, in ourselves as a country. Faith in everything we can achieve. Trust in our institutions, in our potential, in our currency, in our identity, in the place we can reach. Stop trying to build the destruction of the other and start building faith. Security in who we are The strength of our word, the convictions of our heart. In our words are the foundations of the world that we build for our future.

Dear friends, all friends. God created the world with the word. The text says, "And God said, Let there be light, and there was light, and God said to be the earth, and it was the earth, and God said it must be the sun and the sun. … ", he says first. Then create.

And then the mystics of Kabbalah wonder: what does God do when He created the world? What are you doing now And they are telling us that God is continuing tell the world. Of our human limitation, of Homo sapienswe only see matter. But everything is a word. What we see are words. It's the world we live in.

We have tremendous opportunity to evaluate how to invest our thoughts, emotions and decisions. The words that come from our lips will build the family, the society, the country and the world in which we want to live.

The author is a rabbi of the Amijai community and president of the Latin American Rabbinical Assembly of the Masorti Movement.