T118 PNC - Explain in Vernacular — Tzaddik as Moses / Torah Reaching the Listener (1 seg)

When learning a Torah concept, it is good to also explain it in the vernacular language (in Rabbeinu's time, Yiddish — but the principle applies to whatever language one understands clearly). Explaining in the language one fully understands ensures the concept is genuinely absorbed and not merely parroted in a language one doesn't fully grasp. The deeper explanation: every true tzaddik of each generation is an aspect of Moses. And Moses's mission was to transmit Torah to Israel in a way they could receive and understand. When a teacher explains Torah in the student's own language — in the words the student truly grasps — he is acting in the spirit of Moses. The teaching becomes truly alive and beneficial to the world when it is communicated in a way that genuinely reaches the listener.