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What's worse than Lashon Harah? You don't even know you do it - Rabbi Alon Anava

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Rabbi Alon Anava

What's worse than Lashon Harah? You don't even know you do it - Rabbi Alon Anava

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We're going to dedicate the class leilui nishmat the elevation of the soul Ben Zion Chaim Ben Avigdor HaCohen Neshama should have a aliyat neshama and also Mordechai Ben David Is there also aliyat neshama? Yes. Aliyat neshama and for the success of David Ben Shaul for unbelievable success in everything that he does. Amen. And we'll take the opportunity to bless everybody also with success, whoever needs success, whoever needs to find their other half should either find their other half whoever needs to have kids should have many many healthy kids parnassah, nachat yirat shamayim, anything that your heart desires and you need Hashem should bless you in the best way possible. And the most important blessing that we all merit to see the coming of Mashiach with our own eyes very very soon. And thank you as usual Avishai and Liat opening your house. Now have a beautiful background. I'm like uh surrounded by the giants. So it was mamash hashgacha pratit the other day in the lecture in Woodmere I told the some of the the ladies there I don't like how I look. And why don't you like how you look? Ah you know, I look like uh all the all the other or Orthodox people. And then I'm being judged the wrong way. So one of the ladies says what how would you get dressed? I said I want to get dressed like the Ben Ish Hai. So b'ezrat Hashem maybe next tour b'ezrat Hashem if you see the change in the attire. They're like, "Okay." Tough. So, first of all, uh I'll start with an apology, but with an explanation, and I've been speaking Baruch Hashem for over 10 years. Uh more intensively, about 8 years. And I have a pattern. If I see a lecture that the world is stopping me for me,

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  1. 0:15We're going to dedicate the class leilui nishmat the elevation of the soul Ben Zion Chaim
  2. 6:40it and believing it. One can say, "Listen, I don't want to hear lashon hara." But
  3. 12:57lectures, different topics, but I mentioned so many times in the whole I mentioned in all
  4. 19:17gentile came to Bet Shammai and he told him, "Convert me." Bet Shammai gave him a
  5. 25:38you hit a dog, the dog will attack the stick. He's not going to bite you.
  6. 31:58it around. Do teshuvah. You did something or accepted as something that you are getting a
  7. 38:22know there was some type of a tikkun here and if you twice went to court
  8. 44:41Sorry to tell you, I I don't do that. I will never take on myself suffering
  9. 51:00have enough mitzvot." Nonsense. You ever seen so much Torah in any generation? There was never
  10. 57:10But don't hate. Don't carry the hate. Now, this is severe. Now, I went very extreme

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