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Shemirat Halashon Part 59 - Avoiding Blame

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Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

A lecture on guarding speech by Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan.

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good morning gentlemen we're on the 59th segment of think before you speak series the laws of shemitah with clarity with a few stories about hundreds and as well for the young boy yaakov israel ben tamar malka ori mordechai with all the khalim of claudius and there's a hood of these laws of shemitah these laws of shaming and specifically it's dedicated for the shmira malia and today's titled avoiding blame now i want you to think back this is a wonderful reduce that i think when you hear these halachot it'll stop us for a moment and say really i want you to think back to a time when you were looking to buy a house i know that there are some wonderful families in this community that when they were looking to buy a house they actually kept the nap that they take shabbat afternoon into consideration for the buying of the house on a specific block they were looking for a block that's quiet that there's no ball playing there's no bicycle lighting riding shabbat afternoon because they wanted to enjoy the owning of shabbat and the beauty of shabbat of the way shabbat should look like with a good nap and because of that our story begins on one day a neighbor comes walking out and walks right past another neighbor in a huff and the second neighbor turns to the first neighbor and says um mrs so-and-so you look a little bit upset is everything okay and she says i'll be honest with you you know when i moved on to this block i really thought that shabbat afternoon i'd be able to get a good nap

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  1. 0:01good morning gentlemen we're on the 59th segment of think before you speak series the laws…
  2. 0:33with all the khalim of claudius and there's a hood of these laws of shemitah these…
  3. 1:06i want you to think back to a time when you were looking to buy a…
  4. 2:09me and my husband we cherish that little shabbat afternoon sleep all week we're running crazy…
  5. 2:40and yet they let their kids just run around and do whatever they want and make…
  6. 3:46and they're wrong you're allowed to avoid blame by only saying it wasn't my kids go…
  7. 4:20say who it was if you are to step up and say it was somebody else…
  8. 4:50i did not do it it wasn't my kids it wasn't me but to come across…
  9. 5:51comment that's not your issue and that's not la and it's permissible to avoid blame and…
  10. 6:24blame but this is the one time that i want to mention that there is a…

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