Rabbi Chaim Mintz discusses lashon hara and its implications in the context of Jewish politics.
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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.
somebody wants to know if there's a problem with speaking lash and hara about a jewish public figure of a jewish politic a jewish politician or somebody else that is a very public that's in the public eye um and who may open himself up to criticism just by you know is he the some i guess the somebody who goes into the public public sphere forfeit his uh his protection you're allowed to speak uh
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- 0:01somebody wants to know if there's a problem with speaking lash and hara about a jewish…
- 0:31you're allowed to speak uh against his policies not being shouldn't be personal and those he…
- 1:02and it's a personal basis all the laws apply if it's had to was his uh…
- 1:34and uh on the president it's such a terrible thing for the youth to see that…
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