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BEST Lashon Harah EVER

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Rabbi Yonah Carlebach

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Okay. I wanted to talk about loshon hora. I'm going to call it the best loshon hora ever heard. So, it gives incentive to listen. So, I'm going to call bring down a possuk sfas emes tikon lo ad. The ad argiya loshon sheker. It's a possuk in mishlei. So, what he wants to show you that sfasaim represent emes and loshon represents sheker. So, first of all, you see it b'chush. As you know, sheker ain lo raglayim. And sfasai So, if you look at m'tzias, if you stick out your tongue, it comes to a point. Just like the word sheker, every ois of sheker comes to a point. Emes has a base. Right? You look at your sfasaim, it's it's a base. So, it has what to stand on. So, you see that emes, he doesn't say that the what you call the Ramchal, but what he wants to say is that the sherish of the briah, mai that the sherish of the briah, mai sh'bereishis, is all emes. And his raya is, take the words bereishis, bara Elokim, safsei sefas is emes. Then you go to the end of the parsha of bereishis, not bereishis, but of sheishes y'mei bereishis, is asher bara Elokim la'asos is also safsei sefas emes. So, you see the beginning of the briah till the end of the briah, the sheishes y'mei ma'aseh, was all made with emes. So, really it comes out a little bit shver

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  1. 0:01Okay. I wanted to talk about loshon hora. I'm going to call it the best loshon
  2. 0:31So, first of all, you see it b'chush. As you know, sheker ain lo raglayim. And
  3. 1:02that the sherish of the briah, mai sh'bereishis, is all emes. And his raya is, take
  4. 1:32really it comes out a little bit shver because we know that loshon hora is from
  5. 2:33Right? Bereishis bara Elokim. Now, if you if you take those three um excuse me, I
  6. 3:03every three down the aleph beis till the end, it'll always come out mispar katan to
  7. 3:34is 18, eight and one. Three times nine is 27, seven and two. Said this over
  8. 4:37two seals on it to make sure that no Lashon Hara comes out. So that's elephants
  9. 5:09also you see that the difference between Moshe Rabbeinu and the other Sadducees was the David
  10. 5:40it a step further beside a little bit that my is my Rabbeinu was saying not

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