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CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #215 Rabbi Ephraim Meth & Mr. Robbie Neuman - The Power of Speech

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Rabbi Shay Tahan

A discussion on the profound impact and responsibility of speech according to Torah values.

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the himself was supposed to be an incredibly fun engaging person to talk with. How is it possible that the the saddic who's the the paragon right the example the role model right of not speaking lashhara and how is it possible for him to be such a wonderful exciting person to talk with so it struck me I was thinking about my grandmother after she passed away shalom she was always saying nice things about people she never saw anything that was bad she never saw anything that was that was never saw anything that was that was that was a failure everything was a person's strengths a person's successes and it struck me that the the solution is lushing to we train ourselves to speak positive then we don't have to worry about avoiding the negative because that's just what naturally comes out of our mouth. [Music] Welcome to tonight's episode of Torah Talks where we have the great great Talks where we have the great great honor we have an amazing topic the power of speech the the kayak the power of of what we say from our mouths and we have our we have we have two special friends of Kazak we have Rabbi Fry meth over here we have Robbie Newman over here thank you for joining us and before we jump into the powerful topic tonight if we can hear some background of the of yourself and the great work you're involved >> so shalom um thank you very much for this opportunity Um I grew up in Queens and I have really really wonderful amazing parents who are great role

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  1. 0:00the himself was supposed to be an incredibly fun engaging person to talk with. How is
  2. 2:33it elevates and enriches a person's life, right? When they and their friends and their whole
  3. 5:426:00 and 7:00 he becomes tired and his mind is tired and he won't get the
  4. 8:13struck me because this is how she lived her whole life. She was always saying nice
  5. 11:17interesting story that happened to me years and years ago when I was a rabbi in
  6. 14:20was a rabbi I'm not going to say his name but but he he once said
  7. 16:55How is that happening? Because who made us, he's watching over us and our children and
  8. 20:04listening to this podcast or or somebody told it to you or you'll be in a
  9. 22:38give it over to to to Rabbi Meth who ran this program for many years and
  10. 25:45having he's having some temporarily diff temporary difficulties with a kamura. Now, his father his father

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