You don't have to be a judge to be tempted with bribery

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

good evening to everybody nice to see you all to hear you all I wanted to discuss tonight the uh matter of bribery you's see why I'm talking about it this week it's connected this we parachute B usually we identify it as a uh not a good thing because usually you think about bribery is like bri being a judge he middle of a court court case to people and to bribe the judge certainly so out against to do that Torah natur forbids doing that to give a bribe to take a bribe and what is the bribe you uh go to the judge and tell them I'll give you something if you'll give me something back for it which US is something not good I'll give you some money if you'll judge me favorably against the other person even though it's not true but I'll give you give me back these are two steps I give you something give me something back for I'm giving you well actually we say what do we have to do we're not judges and we're not into the uh uh court room that we should have this uh problem coming up to us and why am I talking about bribery to people who are not judges but the truth is that we are every day being bribed and we have to resist the bribery what I've discussed talking about is thear the evil that is in the world within us surrounding us coming to us all different ways is trying to bribe us to do something wrongar tells us listen it's the evil Satan sat I'll give you something good if you give me something back I'll give you the goodness the uh pleasure of something if you'll give me bad something which is wrong that's for me

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