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Character Assassination - Shemirat Halashon Part 19

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Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

A Torah shiur on the dangers of character assassination through speech.

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good morning gentlemen we are on our 19th segment think before you speak series the laws of with clarity lose and her children that passed in the fire it's dedicated to the usual of our benefits dedicated as well to the shot of claudius and specifically also dedicated to the swag the name of today's is character assassination and allah goes like this i'd like to give another definition let's define perception human perception human perception is how people perceive a certain person in a certain way and although the person might be something completely different but in the eyes of the people they understand that this is him your perception is what makes the understanding of that person and therefore i think you understand very well the halacha states that to disgrace a person for his lack of intelligence or to disgrace a person for his lack of strength or maybe his lack of wealth is absolutely and forbidden you are insulting his character

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  1. 0:00good morning gentlemen we are on our 19th segment think before you speak series the laws…
  2. 0:36the name of today's is character assassination and allah goes like this i'd like to give…
  3. 1:08understand that this is him your perception is what makes the understanding of that person and…
  4. 1:40and in a way it's a certain character assassination that makes people look at this guy…
  5. 2:14and that's an even bigger aveda that's an even bigger sin to insult a person's intelligence…
  6. 2:44it can damage and destroy the standing in the eyes of the people or his standing…
  7. 3:16and by insulting him his integrity or his shirim or whatever it may be it's a…
  8. 3:49comes into the room you stand up as well and if that's the case how careful…
  9. 4:23the eyes of other people thank you for listening…

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