The silent person here is the one who maintains an upbringing with silent parts, not interspersed with an empty, preordained period. Then he is silent. If a person wants to test himself whether he is one of those who are silent as he should, then he should see whether he can act with pure determination in what he would do only by speaking, or not. If it affects and happens. What is meant is that it is truly silent, such as when he wants to say to his servant, “Give me water and bring me food,” or walk to so-and-so and say to him such-and-such, and he does not refer to the servant with any of all of this, so the servant finds all of that in himself, by creating God in the servant’s hearing about that, and so-and-so says he said to me. Do such-and-such. He hears that with his permission, but