Chofetz Chaim Yomi Hilchos LH 1:5-6 You Have To Lose Your Job Not To Speak Lashon Harah {Day 28}

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

progress. Okay. Hey, good morning everyone. We're continuing and we have a brief one today. There's no differentiation in the prohibition of speaking whether you on your own initiative decide to say or your friend stood up against you and he pressured you and he created pressure. Don't say it's not my fault. I I I wasn't I wasn't going to say it. But he put he finagled. He pressured. He put he finagled. He pressured. He harassed me. So I had to say it. No, it's your problem. You're not allowed to say it. Even your father or your obligated in their honor and in their in their fear. You have to honor them. You have to fear them. You're not allowed to contravene their words. If a father or rebi said, "Could you tell me this and this and it's not relevant to them. They're just asking relevant to them. They're just asking out of curiosity or maybe a genuine interest." Even if there's somebody you have to honor and respect, you know, then the course of conversation, you will have to be saying some derogatory information or even the dust of listen to them and you cannot speak. Let's say a person sees that if he's not someone who slanders people in the coffee room, people are going to think

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1. 0:00progress. Okay. Hey, good morning everyone. We're continuing and we have a brief one today. There's…
2. 0:31put he finagled. He pressured. He harassed me. So I had to say it. No, it's…
3. 1:02relevant to them. They're just asking out of curiosity or maybe a genuine interest." Even if…
4. 1:32coffee room, people are going to think he's a nerd and he's going to be fired…
5. 2:03you're going to suffer a great loss when it comes to your livelihood. Let's say other…
6. 2:33if they see another guy or girl who their mouth is not open wide like them.…
7. 3:04It's still like any other that you're obligated to give up all your money and not…
8. 3:35to give up all your money not to say one word to them. A person has…
9. 4:05give up all your money and so you could be sure that whatever reward is vouched…

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