A Soulful Journey

An oath, with the knowledge of the community, or words committed to or before a community cannot be cancelled.  It is as if it were sworn in perpetuity at Mt. Sinai.  - Shulchan Aruch We must be very careful with our utterances.  They are heard Above and below.

The Talmud ( Sh evuot  39a) records tha t the entire world once c o nvulsed with such force that is almost split apart when the Holy One uttered, " Thou shalt not take My name in vain." "Why then ? " asks a nameless scholar .  "Why was it that the earth was v erly nearly destroyed then and not at any other part of the Decalogue ?"   Such is the awesome power of this Mitzvah to not take His name in vain that it guides the other nine.