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welcome everybody on this very sticky evening but here it's nice and you can say over night here if you want if you like the air conditioning be have to sleep good tonight and nice and cool we're in the middle of studying the laws of from the holy and uh we mentioned two times ago when we learned it last very interesting unexpected type of L that means usually we talk means you speak badly about somebody but by speaking nicely about somebody can also be lar like we said by provoking people hearing it to CRI criticize the person that we're CRI criticize the person that we're talking about if we talk about somebody's enemy about their praise the person who doesn't like him say Well you think he's such a good guy he's not as good as they think and he'll go on to knock the person down because it doesn't want the person to be praised so here you're trying to praise the person but you're causing somebody to speak badly about the person or in a crowd of people you don't know exactly whose friends are whose know exactly whose friends are whose enemies are even friends if you speak too complimentary about somebody if you go on and on and on some people start don't let's not carry the way you know he's not that great as you think he is you know you're you're you're going overboard speaking so great about him so that's also no good so you have to be careful not only not to to speak badly about people but sometimes to speak
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- 0:00welcome everybody on this very sticky evening but here it's nice and you can say over…
- 6:15people's uh habits in that area do they get together for good things or get to…
- 12:27big tragedy in the family yov was meeting with Shem and his father and they made…
- 18:38any any any slight inclination that she's going to marry him she'll have any connection to…
- 24:55special way that was a vow that he made and he didn't keep the vow yet…
- 31:17his mother stepmother a a married woman it was sister from the same common mother same…
- 37:30that the Earth spit them out it's like somebody who eats something that's not fit for…
- 43:37the way it seems so that's another portion of the tah that we climax tonight andem…
- 49:50this is something that God gave adam G with first man he created do do not…
- 56:05year to solar year since we uh have a leap year every a few years so…
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