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A lesson on the proper way to give praise and avoid harmful speech.
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good morning gentlemen we're on the 46th segment uh think before you speak series with some stories the laws of clarity and her children that passed in the fire roar hashem as well these should be a great zakut for moshe bin laya and for our entire khabur of this halacha is going to catch a lot of people by surprise this is not the typical halacha that you would expect from ishmael series so this boy is a yeshiva in the dormitory and he gets a package from home and he expected that his mother would be sending him the typical stuff the essentials laundry detergent shampoo and all the other stuff that typically we send our kids in yeshiva that they need when they're away but you know mom every time she sends that package there's always a little something of a surprise of goodies that says to the boy i'm thinking about you so she'll send a pack of cookies that she made for him as well so this boy opens the package goes through the stuff finds the cookies and sure enough he shares it with everybody else in the room his roommates one of his roommates walks out into the hallway and announces to everybody wow this guy is great every time he gets a package from his mother she always puts in a little surprise a little something and when he gets it like this time the cookies he shares it with us the minute everybody heard that they all come running into the room asking for a cookie and they wiped them out of his cookies would you believe it that when he went outside to the hallway and announced everybody
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- 0:00good morning gentlemen we're on the 46th segment uh think before you speak series with some…
- 1:07this halacha is going to catch a lot of people by surprise this is not the…
- 1:40that they need when they're away but you know mom every time she sends that package…
- 2:12and announces to everybody wow this guy is great every time he gets a package from…
- 2:43that his generous friend gave out a cookie to his roommates would you believe that that…
- 3:15and tell everybody that his friend is so good that when he gets a package from…
- 3:47to publicize somebody's generosity if it's going to end up causing him a loss put his…
- 4:17in a tough position and then he's gonna end up making loans for people who might…
- 4:47and he's going to be caught he's going to end up with a loss and one…
- 5:20allowed to speak badly about people but you also are supposed to keep the person's image…
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