Rabbi Chaim Mintz discusses the Torah's perspective on slavery and servitude.
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so welcome everybody for our nothing ex as exciting as a tah class t spot and we are studying the laws of lash and Har of slander of talking not nice about other people and we said last week that even if it means not taking a week that even if it means not taking a job because you know the people that work there enjoy talking about gossip about people the lunchtime that's where they get together and talk gossip or they run over to each other went the coffee break talk gossip they say don't take a job over there because you're going to get possibly probably trapped into their talk talking and their idle gossip and we say keep and their idle gossip and we say keep away from it certainly if we're saying even for living purposes making money for a living you shouldn't get involved in such a place like that certainly if your own honor or reput ation is on the ation is on the line people in the group talking gossip and you happen to be in that group and if you don't participate in their talk they're going to say hey come on you're not with it chill out come on open up so a little gossip won't hurt anybody for sure you shouldn't be be influenced by their talking or by their making you feel bad and feel inferior to them on the contrary you feel Superior to them that you're keeping God's Torah keeping God's law and you don't want to talk about a fellow Jew or gossip about anybody else so let them go with their gossip you shouldn't let them should rebuke them tell them they shouldn't talk telling me to to talk I'm telling you not to talk you should talk back to them and tell them that you were doing the wrong thing
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- 0:00so welcome everybody for our nothing ex as exciting as a tah class t spot and…
- 6:20him and building myself up we both did the same thing we both said there something…
- 12:39somebody and he was caught and he does not have money to pay what he sold…
- 19:02to how long he has to dig has to do this work can't tell him that…
- 25:27of good wine who's supposed to drink it who supposed to eat it who's supposed to…
- 31:49there's nice robbers and and difficult robbers different type of people the time of the gor…
- 38:02a pile himself the Yoke of all the laws of the Torah 63 Mitzvah that's too…
- 44:17themselves they gave themselves over under the jurisdiction subjugation of RA therefore we said either she'll…
- 50:32greatness of so they put themselves under the Yoke of their servitude because they wanted to…
- 56:37money right I I hear you all right thank you very much there's a lot of…
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