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Anger - Can It Ever Be A Good Idea

Rabbi Chaim Mintz

Rabbi Chaim Mintz discusses the topic of anger and its potential positive uses.

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uh welcome everybody tonight to our weekly schmooze hope everybody's in a good mood if you're not in good mood hope you get into a good mood we know that you're not supposed to eat blood of an animal but blood of a fish is permitted but interesting if you had a lot of blood from a fish that's piled up in a plate or a bowl in a plate or a bowl and you can't tell that's fish blood so you're not allowed to eat that because people might think you're eating regular blood from an animal but if it could tell there's a scale's inside of it you can tell that comes from a fish so that's permitted but if you can't tell so uh that you have to make sure to of course i think you should smell from fish no fish plus have a fishy smell probably fish plus have a fishy smell probably but in that case it's not forbidden because of itself but because we know we're not supposed to do things that people might suspect us of doing the wrong thing called mars iron doesn't look good to people looks like you're doing the wrong thing so you have to be careful not to make people have the false impression that you're eating blood of an animal now how about blood from a human being according to the law it's permitted according to the entire it's permitted according to the entire law but it's rabbinical law not to eat blood of a person let's say someone takes a bite into a hard piece of bread and the gums are a little bit weak and some blood comes out so you have to cut off the place where the blood is you can't eat that blood but

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  1. 0:00uh welcome everybody tonight to our weekly schmooze hope everybody's in a good mood if you're
  2. 6:12if the food that you're eating has no meat or smells in it no fat from
  3. 12:23is there any thing good about anger i want to bring down from the great sages
  4. 18:50at that moment it's very dangerous he can do things that are very uh bad for
  5. 25:04no you might have been born with an easier type of disposition this bishop this position
  6. 31:24how come the feet of people in africa are wide feet they don't have 10 feet
  7. 37:41you see a child doing this the child doing that i mean this is almost impossible
  8. 44:12give over and communicate to the other person the feeling you want to give and what
  9. 50:22him and the money came in afterwards he was upset and he was upset that people
  10. 56:37god judged me first and judged me not favorably and now judge me favorably to give

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