How to Give Criticism Without Damaging the Relationship (AI)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Zamir Cohen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

In Proverbs chapter 10 verse1, King Solomon refers to a very common issue that can build a person's life or can destroy a person's life. In all human communication, whether it is in marriage, in employer employee relations, among friends at work, between parents and children, naturally there is also criticism. Not always what one person does is pleasing in the eyes of another. And there is criticism. And this is a natural thing. When it comes to natural thing. When it comes to criticism in workplaces, between neighbors, in marriage, human nature is that there are usually more boundaries in this matter. But between parents and children, things can reach very low levels because the child is helpless. And if the parents do not pay attention to how to speak to him in the right way, in a healthy way, they might, heaven forbid, cause him terrible harm for his whole life. But the principles that we whole life. But the principles that we will now see are true not only toward children, but in general in all human communication. When there is criticism, there are claims of one person toward another. How to do it correctly? We should remember that in the Torah it is written, "Do not wrong one another." In one place it is written, "Do not wrong your brother." In another place, "Do not wrong your fellow." Fraud is deceiving another person unfairly. Why does the Torah say this twice?

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2. 4:35say it? The feeling of the person is that the good qualities of the other person,…
3. 9:17The Torah says, "And Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and behold,…
4. 13:54becomes like two camps, one against the other, like a coalition and an opposition. But if…
5. 18:33mind? They insult and shame him. And what does this cause? Distance, resentment, rejection. But if…
6. 23:42But a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. King Solomon's verses here speaking contrasts. As we…
7. 28:16proper teaching, you will see. A man is born. From this wild donkey comes a human…
8. 32:59who does things that are not good in speech, in behavior must always ask himself, would…
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10. 42:14must be. It says about Aaron the high priest that he loved peace and pursued peace.…

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