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What is Lashon Harah?

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Rabbi Alon Anava

What is Lashon Harah?

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[Music] last class we talked about the general rules of la nada and and again in these classes we're just going very broad about rules terms regulations and so forth so last class we were talking about the rules today we're going to talk hopefully i don't know if we'll be able to squeeze two two topics at the same time but we're going to start with what is really considered if we have time we'll go to another part of la shonera that will have to elaborate that on a much longer class which is called la shonara bifinishlosha when lashonda is spoken in front of three people this is called the ap so because i can talk with one person that's one thing we spoke about the scenario that i speak in front of thousands of people or 10 people or 100 people that's another type of roshan allah but there's this type of that it's when it's a group of three if this time we'll talk a little bit about it today but nevertheless we're going to have to dedicate a class or two in regards to that because that's where it becomes a little bit more difficult because there's already gossiping in it and so forth but let's start and we'll see where we go to and we're going to start in the in the explanation what is called what is actual speech that is defined as a shondara

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  1. 0:00[Music] last class we talked about the general rules of la nada and and again in
  2. 4:19now i have to be very careful so what now i can't say anything i can't
  3. 9:00good because i come and show everybody that you did a sin now i make you
  4. 13:16but i just read out nevertheless either saying that he did a scene that many people
  5. 17:57this individual to another person i'm not allowed to say about a certain individual that the
  6. 22:46elaborate when it's not on talking or about an individual i can talk to shannara about
  7. 26:56or frightening men maybe they're just giants and you'll just go boo and they'll run away
  8. 31:44can survive and they have helicopters and whatever ems everybody searching what a tragedy a young
  9. 35:58to how much millions how many millions i stole i mean i i got to a
  10. 40:45thoroughly every word that is about to come out of your mouth how much damage it

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