Rabbi Yaakov Lubow - Chavruta Learning: Guard Your Tongue

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okay so you have page 1092 in the uh this okay so this book that i have is high okay passed away before world war ii he was the uh top uh rabbi in in the world in europe he wasn't voted in which is very interested because in israel you have these elections who's going to be the chief he was elected out of uh the population because he was known to be the greatest sadiq and that's how it's always been in the jewish world you know for generations um an interesting thing he's called the chavitz you know what his real name is ah you see that people think then okay so really his name was israel mir kagan that was his real name why does everybody know him as high that's an interesting question you know why don't you just call him rebecca mia is cohen actually so just an interesting idea that in the jewish world if you write a book and you're not at the level of the book nobody's going to read it the book and the person are the same they're on the same level so one of the great works that the uh wrote was a book on guarding your tongue that's what they call an english guardian they've translated many languages at the beginning of the book it has all of these um chapters pages after pages of negative and positive mitzvahs that a person could be going over sinning if you want to call the word saying if he doesn't watch what he's saying so the idea of lush and horror there's two aspects just i'm not going to deal with it so much but if a person says something that's true and is negative degradation to the person even if the person doesn't end up losing money losing his job losing his fame

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