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Old News - Shemirat Halashon Part 72

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Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan discusses the dangers of spreading outdated harmful speech.

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good morning gentlemen we're on the 72nd segment of the think before you speak series the laws of shaming with clarity a few stories today we're going to talk about laws of refuge titled old news so i want you to think for a minute if you remember the old days people used to go to bungalow colonies in the summer and this is before the big houses that took or replaced well once upon a time was a small bungalow i want you to picture this story where you have a family who was cramped up together in a very small bungalow with many children there for the summer and how it was so difficult to make it through those nights besides the heat air conditioning never really did it never really worked in the mid of summer and the children all stacked up together on bunk beds in little rooms and here are the parents the next morning you could see the father walking to shore and he's half asleep and he bumps into one of his uh bungalow neighbors and he says to him i didn't sleep a wink last night my kids had me up last night all night and the truth is it's not their fault we're in a two-bedroom bungalow i have six kids in one room and my wife and i in the other room and it is pandemonium every single night it is crazy what goes on and all you need is one kid to wake up and everybody else is woken up as well and we start over again from scratch two o'clock in the morning four o'clock in

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  1. 0:02good morning gentlemen we're on the 72nd segment of the think before you speak series the…
  2. 0:47today we're going to talk about laws of refuge titled old news so i want you…
  3. 1:18small bungalow with many children there for the summer and how it was so difficult to…
  4. 1:49and he says to him i didn't sleep a wink last night my kids had me…
  5. 2:20the morning i don't think i'm going to make it through this summer his neighbor is…
  6. 2:50to allow you to extend it he even threatened to take you to bed dean if…
  7. 3:21your bungalow wouldn't sign the permission wouldn't give you the right to go out and get…
  8. 3:51he reintroduced a concept of rishi lut and although you already know it but by bringing…
  9. 4:21even if it's something that's going to cause him to hate another jew that he already…
  10. 4:51that was done to him once upon a time it'll arouse his anger all over again…

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