Sharing Secrets
That's what it means ‘Don’t speak into the ears of a fool.’ Anybody who doesn’t have your ideas is a fool, that’s the truth. He doesn’t understand what you are really thinking about; and even though he understands it a little bit, but he doesn’t understand it in the way you understand it. You tell it to him and you look at his face and there’s no reaction there and it cools you off.
You know when I speak to you, the thing that I have in my mind is not reflected in your mind entirely; only part of it is reflected in your mind. Your face shows that it’s not reflected fully and so I’m cooled off. I lose out by telling it to you. Now, I take my chances with you; after all you’re my guests here. You came here so I’m not going to not talk to you, but still it’s a dangerous thing.
You know there was a great sage who lived about eighty years ago, Rav Simcha Zissel, and had the practice that when it occurred to him some important Torah idea, a noble idea, a derech in avodas Hashem, so for a long time he didn’t tell it to anyone. Even from his disciples in the yeshiva, he kept it hidden. He waited weeks and weeks and weeks to enjoy it himself. Then, when he was ready he said it in the shmooz.
And he said that had he taught it right away he would have lost it because of the lack of enthusiasm of his listeners. Now, when he spoke to the public, he was speaking to very good talmidim. They were great men, his students; all were talmidei chachomim, lamdanim. But still they could never understand it with the same enthusiasm that he understood it.
