The Contest - Shemirat Halashon Part 87 - Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

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good morning the 87th segment of think before you speak series the laws of shemitah clarity with a few few stories be a great zakut for the chef to give a little bit more time or effort into their learning the rabbis might create a contest and that competition would sometimes bring out a bigger drive for learning for instance in this particular yeshiva the rebbe's decided to make a contest where on the piece of gemara the page of gemara that they were learning that day the rebbe announced anyone that writes the most creative and compelling question and answer on this gemara will get a wonderful price and when everyone heard that they were pushed to jump into this contest and they spent hours analyzing that page of gemara looking for the most great creative question or answer or that is found on that page and for hours they wrote and they handed in the papers by lunch one boy walks up the roux then and says to him hey your father is one of the rebbies in yeshiva

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1. 0:00good morning the 87th segment of think before you speak series the laws of shemitah clarity…
2. 1:01to give a little bit more time or effort into their learning the rabbis might create…
3. 1:31get a wonderful price and when everyone heard that they were pushed to jump into this…
4. 2:02can you go into his office and kind of talk to him a little bit and…
5. 2:34but even more so van looks back at the boy and says my dad my father…
6. 3:05rejected he's not allowed to go and tell that boy that the rabbis rejected his paper…
7. 3:36even worse because you're telling them about against the punishment is even more severe you have…
8. 4:07and this student on the paper that he handed in for the contest that's a much…
9. 4:37more severe it's hard enough for rebbies to reach the heart of the boys and try…

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