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Seemingly Harmless - Shemirat Halashon Part 9

520 views · Nov 16, 2021

Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

A Torah shiur on how seemingly harmless speech can be harmful.

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good morning gentlemen we're on the ninth segment of think before you speak the laws of shemin today's titled seemingly harmless it's funny you go through life and you meet all different types of people and every now and then you bump into a person who really knows how to play dumb where they have a certain plan in mind a certain objective a motive but they know how to play very innocent and dumb in a certain way to bring out a result which would seem to be so innocent and sometimes so dangerous it's funny how when a person can come off speaking about someone else and then they come off kind of defending themselves and saying really oh i didn't realize i didn't know that was us i didn't realize that was la shanhara or i didn't realize you know the person i'm talking about or i didn't realize that saying that would make the person look bad and all these little i did didn't realize is in certain way playing the dumb card to bring out an underhanded way of pretending not realizing that what's being spoken

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  1. 0:00good morning gentlemen we're on the ninth segment of think before you speak the laws of…
  2. 0:30where they have a certain plan in mind a certain objective a motive but they know…
  3. 1:01really oh i didn't realize i didn't know that was us i didn't realize that was…
  4. 1:33is real hara at the end of the day pretending and not realizing is not an…
  5. 2:03and there's absolutely no harm that comes out of it they know their audience they know…
  6. 2:34that no harm will come out of the lashon hara you're going to tell about somebody…
  7. 3:05i'm dating him anyways regardless of what you tell me i like the guy i'm going…
  8. 3:38i think that when you hear this a little deeper you'll understand and appreciate a new…
  9. 4:09relevant to the person that's listening at this moment they might not believe you or it…

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