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Backhanded Compliment - Shemirat Halashon Part 86 - Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

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Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

A lesson on the subtle dangers of backhanded compliments and lashon hara.

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good morning everybody we're on our 86th segment of the think before you speak series the laws of shemination with clarity a few stories so today's titled the backhanded insult now we're talking about the laws of regilut again is defined as one person telling or doing something to someone else that will cause them to hate a third person telling someone about maybe what someone else said about them or telling someone what someone else did to them that will cause ill feeling to them that will cause ill feeling between them and the person you're talking about that's refillut so here's an interesting story a insult that is embedded in a compliment so let's see this from the top so if you imagine for a moment there's a woman in a doctor's office who after waiting some time finally gets into the room sees the doctor comes out

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  1. 0:00good morning everybody we're on our 86th segment of the think before you speak series the…
  2. 0:45so today's titled the backhanded insult now we're talking about the laws of regilut again is…
  3. 1:16to them that will cause ill feeling between them and the person you're talking about that's…
  4. 1:46comes out and she's about to pay her co-pay she comes up to the secretary and…
  5. 2:19bit time but at the end she sets her up takes her co-pay and she gives…
  6. 2:50i'm really pleasantly surprised you were wonderful to deal with now this is a wonderful compliment…
  7. 3:22but the moment that little comment about her neighbor with the name having a completely opposite…
  8. 3:54still by telling that person that somebody else had a bad experience by them or said…

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