Mesillat Yesharim with Rabbi Avigdor Miller - Degrees of Revenge (Part 3)

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

well Shalom everybody welcome back thank you so much for joining me we're up to page 221 uh we're still in chapter 11 uh we will be in chapter 11 for a little while yet and we are looking at the subject of rilot and uh lashan Hara rilot is U essentially uh tattletail saying something to somebody that you you heard somebody else say about them that was negative and obviously lanara is saying something that's truthful um but is delivered to that's truthful um but is delivered to another individual or group of people in a way that undermines that individual uh or sheds sheds them in a bad light uh and from there we looked at the subject of taking Revenge hatred and revenge uh a lot of ill speech is rooted in hatred um but then we just sort of began to look at revenge in general the concept of Revenge and how refraining from taking Revenge uh can be a good opportunity to elevate yourself uh opportunity to elevate yourself uh provided you're not refraining from Revenge because you're intimidated or frightened of somebody um you know somebody doesn't lend you something uh like you know something out of their shed like a farming implement uh a spay or a wheelbarrow or something and then two months later they come over and they want to borrow you know a couple of eggs um you know is that your opportunity to sort of take revenge or is a opportunity to show the neighbor how they should really be acting um and so yeah so

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1. 0:05well Shalom everybody welcome back thank you so much for joining me we're up to page…
2. 1:06opportunity to elevate yourself uh provided you're not refraining from Revenge because you're intimidated or frightened…
3. 3:08because the Yahara continuously rils up the heart and constantly seeks to make at least some…
4. 4:41toward that that neighbor's reaction to your need needing to be met and not meeting that…
5. 5:44these little little sort of residues of muck that can over time really darken a per…
6. 7:16imperceptible so the husband does something wrong to the wife the wife her affection for him…
7. 8:48I struggle to get around now you know that's how terrible is that uh so you…
8. 9:48him no it won't just just don't make it a few years do it quickly do…
9. 11:20cook a meal and feed yourself and wash your clothes I don't see how you not…
10. 12:52disagreement with my partner and um and I thought well listen this morning instead of taking…

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