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But It's True!! - Shemirat Halashon Part 1

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Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

A lesson on the importance of guarding one's speech and the dangers of lashon hara.

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okay this is the first segment of schmidt the first halacha is gentlemen how many times did you ever hear people go off on a tangent speaking negatively about somebody else and then when you stop them and you say hey hey how could you say that you know what their reaction is what do you mean that's exactly what happened it doesn't matter that's the whole point you're not allowed to speak leshon even if the information is entirely true it's still hara matter of fact just the opposite if there was any element of falsehood that was spoken in the information then it's a much worse aveda it's not

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  1. 0:01okay this is the first segment of schmidt the first halacha is gentlemen how many times
  2. 0:31hey how could you say that you know what their reaction is what do you mean
  3. 1:03then it's a much worse aveda it's not anymore then it's moti shemra and that's much
  4. 1:34negative commandments seventy lot in one word and then he tramples on fourteen assay do you
  5. 2:04the real sheminata real constitutes any remark that you end up making that might hurt somebody

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