Rabbi Lazer Brody: The Power of Speech

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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.

in the american jewish world but uh as far as chickens for shabbas let me tell you chickens for shabbos are who these special people are but to understand who they are i'm going to tell you about a little boy i'm not going to mention his name and there are a lot of little boys like that in your sholai and svat and beit shemesh and ofakim and shidero okay a little boy that as his father left home and his father left home left his mother in a gooner in a gooner where the mother's a single family parent little boy doesn't have a father and you see the little boy that when the other kids are playing ball in recess in the hater he's sitting on the side by himself why is he sitting on the side because he doesn't have any energy he's tired he wants to go to sleep but even more than that his stomach has pangs of hunger he didn't have anything to eat today and this is no joke this is if this was the reality in eretz's royal before the reality in eretz's royal before corona after corona and the unemployment and all the develop that's even worse right now okay this little boy with no father at home it comes to haider with no sandwich because mother didn't have anything to give him and he sees all the little other little boys they take out their bamba and recess they're eating their bamba and they're exchanging sandwiches this one's changing his chocolate sandwich for the other one's peanut butter sandwich and he's looking all this corn he doesn't have anything to barter he doesn't have anything to exchange and no one understands what's happening

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1. 0:31in the american jewish world but uh as far as chickens for shabbas let me tell…
2. 4:32because the gomorrah says that anyone has pity and mercy on people less fortunate than hashem…
3. 8:38imagine now another couple okay so another couple he also wants to ask the girl to…
4. 12:42that are in charge of bringing the prayers and putting them as part of the sheikh…
5. 16:45third group is people that lie and the fourth group the ones losing hara so we…
6. 21:25for torah and philip and and doing good deeds doing good deeds then we save ourselves…
7. 25:31to have a father and a husband that speaks wholesome speech okay what happens as soon…
8. 29:34insulted well forbidden speech is so so so severe that even when it's accidental a person…
9. 33:39people you encourage your son well some parents and son comes home he got a 91…
10. 37:47and do something for claudius world we all have to do two things and if we…

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