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.
That was a superb shiur!
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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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