Boss Gives Him The Promotion - R' Shlomo Landau

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Johan was a secular Israeli fellow, a young fellow who worked in the aeronautics industry, did very well actually. And at some point in his life, he connected with Yiddishkeit. And as he learned, he started to observe. And as he observed, he started to grow, and his life became much more meaningful. And then all of a sudden, one of his rebbeim introduced him to the concept of Shmiras Halashon, not speaking Lashon Hara, a concept that was absolutely foreign to him. He was part of the Israeli secular culture, the tabloids, the gossip. [music] And all of a sudden he realizes that's assur. Not only is it assur, it's poison. And he takes to it like a fish in water. This is something that talks to him, and he stops [music] speaking Lashon Hara. Now, in his own personal life, it wasn't so challenging. But in his workplace, it was a very close group of people. The company encouraged water cooler banter, sitting around, shooting the breeze, schmoozing, connecting. They felt the team would work better. And he realized that in the beginning of the day everyone would go get coffee, and

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1. 0:07Johan was a secular Israeli fellow, a young fellow who worked in the aeronautics industry, did…
2. 0:39[music] And all of a sudden he realizes that's assur. Not only is it assur, it's…
3. 1:10what do you think they did? They gossiped. They spoke Lashon Hara. And the first day…
4. 1:41into his office. And outside of his office, he puts up a big sign that says,…
5. 2:11of all the employees in our entire company. The amount of time and productivity that you…
6. 2:41touch a position like that till they're mid-40s, early 50s. He made a decision not to…
7. 3:12Rebbe Nachman in them as part of the narrative? And in Mitzvah Shem, when we bring…

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