3) The Chida (Chomas Anoch, Matos, ois 2) writes: “If wine is sitting inside a closed barrel inside a wine cellar at the time that grapes are being pressed, even if it is very far away, the wine inside the barrel starts moving. This is incredible.”
The Chida writes that we can learn an important lesson regarding the power of speech from this: Just like wine inside a barrel moves even though the grapes are being pressed very far away, similarly, the words one says can have an effect in Shomayim above, even though it’s very far away. Every word one says has an effect above, for good or for bad. If one says Torah and holy things it creates ruchniyus and kedusha above, and if chas vesholam he speaks bad and speaks forbidden things, it gives ko’ach [strength] to the Sitra Achra and causes bad things to happen above.
The Chida adds that this is hinted at in the pasuk in this week’s parsha (Bamidbar 30:3) which says: לא י חל דברו ככל היוצא – “Don’t profane your words, everything that comes out your mouth you shall keep.” The gematria of the beginning letters of these words equals the same gematria as יין, they both equal 70 (the beginning letters actually only equal 69, but by gematrias it’s ok to be one off), to hint that there is an important lesson regarding speech to learn from wine.
