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Iggeres HaGra #7 - Carefulness With Each Word

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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importance of being careful with every word that a person is has to give an accounting for every word that they said not even a small word is lost and therefore the warned that one should train themselves as much as possible to sit on their own because uh the most overarching of all khatoem is the hate of lashon like hazal say the lashing horror corresponds to all the various of eros and um the grass said there's no need to be marach about the avere which is more hammer than all of irois and even all of one's mithsois word tyra cannot sort of speak make up for improper use of words one should acquire the following profession in this world make themselves like an elaine and put their tulips together very tightly like a mill and the whole punishment of kaphakala is just for extraneous words for each extra word one is liable or maybe i one deserves to be slingshot from one end of the world to the other now this is all by dvaramya serum extra words so uh we began last time by speaking about the very interesting khakira that the brother of rakai and vilajnar was hoyker [Applause] and in the safer today sodom he brings the khakira that his brother abhayim had namely when was a young man he had a suffix video by the way that's and in a situation where a person is user to speak divrei torah let's say anna base americans are you allowed to speak sichas hulen is there only an issue to speak to arabic taylor and where you can speak

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  3. 2:33where you where you could speak to torah or is there some kind of independent inherent…
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