Lashon Harah & Shmiras Halashon - The Importance of Guarding One's Tongue | Part 1

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mendel Kessin’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Tonight, I'm going to present a sheer on lotion horror, or rather on shmears of lotion. But before I begin the presentation this year, I think that I start with a story. Story of the Chofetz Chaim. Very interesting story. Uh Rav Sholom Schwadron, he is the source of the story. He would say the story over. And the story goes as follows. One of the best bochurim, one of the best students of the Yeshiva in Radin of the Chofetz Chaim, where the Chofetz Chaim of course was the Rosh Yeshiva, uh it was Purim and he got very drunk. And uh what happened is that he came to the house of the Chofetz Chaim. Now this was Purim and the uh Chofetz Chaim's house there was a lot there were a lot of people, you know, standing there and of course uh watching the Chofetz Chaim. And this student, who was one of the best students in the Yeshiva, he was very drunk and he came to the Chofetz Chaim's house. Now the house was filled with people. And what he did is he pushed his way through the people and he made his way up front. And uh he pushed his way through the crowd and he comes up to the front and there's the Chofetz Chaim sitting at a table. And he says out loud, "Rebbi, Rebbi, promise me that I can sit next to you in Gan Eden." That's what he says. Here's a Here's a student who's drunk. He goes running through the crowd,

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1. 0:01Tonight, I'm going to present a sheer on lotion horror, or rather on shmears of lotion.…
2. 6:07that commandment a tremendously elevated state in a future world. But if you take a look…
3. 12:17His conversation. Or leshonoi, which means his tongue. What we see, therefore, is that the concept…
4. 18:25superstructure of lashon hara is hezek, damage. Somebody speaks lashon hara is a mazik. That's really…
5. 24:27balashonay, if you want to die, it's up to your tongue." What the Gemara is saying…
6. 30:40To shame shish tam atur can negate kolam. Just like the reward of learning Torah is…
7. 36:54that the Jews uh uh uh failed all those tests, that is not enough to ensure…
8. 43:04which completely gives him a rise to him. He feels and he perceives the emanation itself.…
9. 49:12That if this is the case that God wants man to earn what? The comprehension of…
10. 55:18Now, maybe you think, "Well, wait a minute. What happens if a person doesn't work so…

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