The Compliment Effect - R' Zev Smith

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

Yasi received a phone call from one of the wealthiest people in town. Yasi, I need a favor from you. What is a favor? Every year, [music] Purum comes and I give out thousands of dollars. I give $100 bills to anybody I meet, my family, relatives. It's not a seducka. I want to make people happy, but this year I have to go to Israel. My daughter had a baby. I'm give you $10,000 cash as a token of my appreciation. What would you think if y says, "You know what? Just go to Israel. forget about it. Wouldn't that be foolish? Maybe tragic. You could help so many people. You could make people closest and dearest and nearest to you closest and dearest and nearest to you so happy and you give it up. But it's not so tragic since it's only [music] a mushel. But you know what maybe is tragic? Sometimes with a nimil gave us the greatest gift. It's called words. Put it so succinctly. [music] Words are uplifting. Words are therapeutic. Words are [music] soothing. Words identify a person, validate a person, make a person feel [music] good. And there's in words. Are we utilizing the great great strength that's called words? The med says when words are good,

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1. 0:06Yasi received a phone call from one of the wealthiest people in town. Yasi, I need…
2. 0:36closest and dearest and nearest to you so happy and you give it up. But it's…
3. 1:08words? The med says when words are good, less tav, it is nothing as effective as…
4. 1:39words with our children do we spend enough time with our parents and especially elderly parents…
5. 2:10associated with the with horror wres havoc in a person's life. There's so much we could…

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