Flies in the Palace - R' Daniel Glatstein

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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.

Nitsar. It's about the next guy, but more importantly, it's about you. Did you ever see in a beautiful palace or in a penthouse, an upscale penthouse? You ever see flies flying around there, swarming? You wouldn't typically see flies in a beautiful palace or in an upscale penthouse. They don't feel comfortable in [music] beautiful, clean places. You know where you're going to see flies? You're going to see flies in the garbage with filth, with grime, with dirt. That's where the flies really feel comfortable. comfortable. It's not only about the damage [music] you could cause someone else, that you could cause someone to lose their job or disturb a shid or hurt someone's livelihood or happiness. It's about [music] you. It's it's about what kind of person are you identifying yourself as? Because when you are speaking about someone else, you need to [music] make a decision. What do you feel comfortable with? Where does your mind feel comfortable? What do your words feel comfortable talking about? His deficiencies, his [music] negative characteristics or his positive

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1. 0:08Nitsar. It's about the next guy, but more importantly, it's about you. Did you ever see…
2. 0:39comfortable. It's not only about the damage [music] you could cause someone else, that you could…
3. 1:09characteristics or his positive character traits or something good about him. You know, there was once…
4. 1:40do we like to talk about? If we hone in on the white teeth, if we…
5. 2:11to ourselves, nitsar, this is a defining moment in who I am. I want to identify…

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