T47 (Tinyana) PNC - Sakanah to Say Torah; Klipah Dakah and Yisro

Saying Torah is a great danger and demands extraordinary skill: the speaker must weigh his words on a scale so that each listener hears only what he needs and no more. Even though everyone hears the whole shiur, each one truly absorbs only his portion. This is the secret of 'And Yisro heard' (Exodus 18:1) — didn't the whole world hear? Yet only Yisro's hearing counts as real hearing (Zohar Yisro 68); the world's hearing isn't really hearing. One who cannot speak Torah at this level is forbidden to teach. For every person coming to hear Torah brings his evil with him — the husks born of his sins — and they jostle and pressure the gathering ('this dochaka at the bride's gathering is from them' — Berachos 6). These husks want to nurse from Torah, and their nourishment comes only from the 'extras' — what a listener absorbs above his understanding. This is the secret of 'razei Torah given to the chitzonim': what is above the listener's ken becomes their food. So the wise speaker must aim his words so no listener hears beyond his own portion. There is also a fine, subtle husk close to holiness that can nurse even from the body of the Torah itself, even without 'extras.' Its remedy: speak about Israel's salvation — that fine husk flees. This is why 'Yisro came and went before the giving of the Torah' (Zevachim 116): Yisro is that fine husk, which flees when it hears the salvations of Israel. The true tzaddik fears more when saying Torah than on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.