This is a re-upload of the world-famous lecture given by Rabbi Mendel Kessin about the profound dangers of loshon hora [slander] and the tremendous benefit of shmiras halashon [guarding one's tongue].
That was a superb shiur! I’ve never heard such a dramatic hierarchy of the levels of Lashon hara, words so alive with meaning. I think I want to listen again. Of course this entire subject concerns a Jew’s “haver” which my husband says that Rabbi Miller describes as your fellow Jew who observes the Torah. And not to a secular or “anti“ Jewish person. I didn’t hear this clarification by the Rabbi, so I wonder if that was deliberate, or he assumes one knows this.
It would seem that Rabbi Mizrachi would agree with the “haver” explanation also.
H/t Sherry/Dave Rav Ron Chaya I'm watching this with English subtitles.
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"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
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That was a superb shiur!
I’ve never heard such a dramatic hierarchy of the levels of Lashon hara, words so alive with meaning. I think I want to listen again.
Of course this entire subject concerns a Jew’s “haver” which my husband says that Rabbi Miller describes as your fellow Jew who observes the Torah. And not to a secular or “anti“ Jewish person. I didn’t hear this clarification by the Rabbi, so I wonder if that was deliberate, or he assumes one knows this.
It would seem that Rabbi Mizrachi would agree with the “haver” explanation also.
Everyone needs to hear this.
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