Rabbi Chaim Mintz - Weekly Class: Receiving the Torah - What if the Jews Said No?

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

here he's talking about if there's a rumor going around town about somebody are you allowed to believe a rumor and you are not allowed to believe a rumor even though people are talking about it and it's gossip the latest delicious gossip around gossip around town but we are not permitted to pick up on it and go around spreading it around on it and go around spreading it around to other people some people love to spread rumors you hear what I just heard pick up the phone talk to this one talk to that one people have a tendency to enjoy spreading gossip but that is not the Torah way and not the Jewish way we have to be very careful and think about how we would feel if people would gossip about us would be very comfortable and very would be very comfortable and very disturbing very distressing distressful so we have to think about the general rule that we learned from the gar the talud that which we do not like for ourselves we should not dish out to anybody else so certainly we do not do not like to be gossiped about therefore we shall not gossip about other people now here we going to discuss in the eth chapter of the about whom and who is permitted to speak L and every man woman and child who's old enough to understand relatives or non-relatives are forbidden to speak sometimes you might say well I know Uncle Joe he doesn't care if I

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2. 6:23Shas that we interrupted our weekly discussion about the Torah the which still in the first…
3. 12:54somebody so he put r at the end and Leia next to her in front of…
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7. 38:20so this was the beginning of the conversation that it's asob it continues as we go…
8. 45:17Jew no it's more Pious we had a question that came in um uh we speak…
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