Toxic Tongues

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

[Music] it's all good my lord loving grace tonight's lesson is entitled toxic tongues it's about verbal abuse outside the family and verbal abuse of course bitter medicine we're going to be talking about the six main types of abusers but i want to preface by one thing okay there's one thing about bitter medicine nobody wants to take bitter medicine but once a person does get a dose of it it's it's a powerful cure and verbal abuse when somebody handles it properly it's a proper cure because as we learned last week it can atone for a person's complete sins in other words the huff's slime says something better if someone abuses you get all their merits and they get all your your transgressions any any demerits you have any spiritual debits you have if someone abuses you they get it they get it so a person who's favored that one of our sages once said that really uh if someone abuses you verbally you should send him a bouquet of flowers because he's giving you a present of his credits and he gets the questionable present of all your demerits and we're really cleaning up complete shuva okay so but with that said no one in the world has the right to abuse anyone and the torah expressly forbids verbal abuse and therefore we don't ever want to be guilty of it okay the safer which means the book of education it's a book that explains one by one the 613 mitzvot it emphasizes that even ridiculing another person by way of gesticulation in other words that's that somebody points it and public hurricanes they don't say a word but in a group of people they point to this one person the victim and they make up turn up their

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