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If you could go into an elevator with somebody, and you could convince them within just a few seconds never to speak lashon hara again, what would you tell that person that is going to be so powerful, that will be so compelling, so convincing that after they will leave that elevator, they're no never ever going to speak lashon hara again? You know what that one thing that you could tell that person is? Says the Chofetz Chaim on Hilchos Lashon Hara, you should know that when a person speaks lashon hara, he inherits all that person's sins. The person that you spoke
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- 1:32many sins that we never even committed. Why? Because of lashon hara. So, if a person…
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