History, Lashon Hara, and Where We Cross the Line 01 25 2026

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

You good? >> Okay, Margan. Um, we're gonna we're gonna we I guess this is like 1B to the to what we discussed last week about the Steinald Shass and really we like morphed into a discussion on the value and the danger of of studying Jewish history. And I think I'm gonna wrap up that this week with one more one more stickle about that and then then we'll take a break and we'll start something new. Um I just today's okay so we're talking about the the the Indian history and the danger of history I guess the the need for protecting uh you know protecting the image that we have of our gadim and of people from the past etc. So there's two more concerns that I want to discuss. One is from a letter that Berlin wrote about his father and then after that we'll move on to different different um Berlin was the nitiv son. The nitiv had a future nitiv was actually married with like over a was actually married with like over a very long span of time. His first wife Berlin his oldest son and his youngest son had like a 50-year gap between them. So but his oldest son Berlin um who was aim was a was approached by somebody who wanted to write a biography about and it's about his father and uh Berlin expressed what he felt to was his father's opinion about biographies in a long letter and I want to read some of it he says

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1. 0:02You good? >> Okay, Margan. Um, we're gonna we're gonna we I guess this is like…
2. 3:18one word and was worth to him pages and pages if somebody else is safe for…
3. 6:50to know the from previous generations in the in the true way meaning in the accurate…
4. 10:27talking back and forth do he does he know does he not know and then the…
5. 14:02the money. So then he dies and was not there wasn't there. They asked me they…
6. 17:42it's but because it's it's um it's it's a now last week we mentioned the garill…
7. 21:15it's only it's not for everybody it's not it's not like a everyone has to fear…
8. 25:04to be learning that it's much more bright. It means all kinds of not just now…
9. 28:36there was many gelim who looking back Now you know looking in the back look when…
10. 32:19Hamayan in 1992 between a bunch of different people is basically vulba who was a yaka…

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