Dedicated to the wonderful Clean Speech Colorado team
That’s all folks. It’s day 30, the final lesson in the series. So can I ask you. What’s your SQ?
That’s all folks. It’s day 30, the final lesson in the series. So can I ask you. What’s your SQ?
If you’re reading this, hopefully you’ve already watched the whole Volume 3 of Clean Speech Colorado | Oseh Shalom, Words of Peace. And you’ve already watched your world become a much more peaceful place to be. For you, for your family, your friends, your coworkers, your whole community.
You’ve developed a shalom personality. You’ve become a person who appreciates the benefits and pleasures of a peaceful life, and who actively pursues shalom throughout the day.
“Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace.”
When we finish reading from the Torah and put it back in the arc, we always say this verse from Proverbs. It reminds us that the whole goal of the Torah is to lead us to shalom. The paths of Torah are peace. The more Torah you study, the more peaceful your life will be.
Along with the verse, we often add another quote, from the Talmud, which says, “Torah scholars increase peace in the world.”
You might not be able to increase your IQ, but your SQ just keeps going up and up the more you learn.
So don’t stop now. There’s no limit to how high your SQ can be. The only question is, what will your next step be?
Try this today: Choose what you’ll study next. Maybe review the 30 lessons in this series, or in one of the previous campaigns, or sign up for a class on Jewish mindful speech.
Here’s a beautiful lesson from the holiday about shalom and how significant it is.
In the Talmudic discussion of lighting the menorah, the Talmud considers the following hypothetical situation.
Imagine that it’s Chanukah, and it’s also Friday night, and you only have one candle.
Have you ever heard the line, “I would never belong to a club that would have me as a member”?
It’s a classic. Known simply as Groucho Marx’s joke, it’s the definition of self-deprecating humor.
And oddly enough, it can be a powerful tool of shalom.