Etude du Pélé Yoets - L'Importance de la Vérité (Emet) - Rav Eliaou Benloulou

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The opening of this shiur, in Lev Banim’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Dear friends, good morning. We are very happy to be back with you for our study of the PO Elzer Papo. Today we are working with the letter Alef, always with the letter Alef, in a progression of studying the midotes, working with the midotes, and the letter Alf. Here we are Alf, like "and," and of course everyone knows the translation of "and," and "and." It is the truth, the truth. It is certainly among all the midotes that we are asked to work on during a lifetime. The midote of truth, well, it is such an important notion that all the greatest poskim, all the greatest decision-makers in Africa, all the greatest writers, therefore in the world of the Torah, we inevitably, at one point or another, work, write many things. This midote tells us about the stamp, the or—you know, when we take a stamp, we have finished when we take a stamp, we have finished writing a letter, we make a signature, we put a stamp, we put a seal, as was done even before, in those days. Well, our ramim tell us that the stamp of Akadosbu, the signature of Akadosbu, well, it is the and it gives us a This gives us a little insight into the scope of this virtue, which each of us must cultivate at our own level. Of course, it's stated at the beginning of the text. Michel tells us that the virtue of Michel tells us that the virtue of truth is eternal, and of course, it saves us from death, no more and no less. This means that someone who always speaks the truth will protect themselves from many unfortunate situations we might encounter in our lives. So, as it's written in the Gmara Sanedrine, we're told a short story. On page

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1. 0:00Dear friends, good morning. We are very happy to be back with you for our study…
2. 1:03when we take a stamp, we have finished writing a letter, we make a signature, we…
3. 2:06story. On page 92, the first page, it says that there was a city there called…
4. 3:07dibourouazara, literally one who transforms his word, who changes his word. We can say that he…
5. 4:14entirely, he is only truth, and his hidden [spirit] is... This brings to mind a little…
6. 5:46be cunning, one must not use cunning with one's mouth. And we take this here, in…
7. 6:48permissible in our eyes, that's what the P tells us here, that it becomes what we…
8. 7:49all the various and sundry works of Jewish morality, that we are given the basis for…
9. 8:51m michkal, weights and measures. We must not transform things to the point of unfortunately lying,…
10. 9:52Kados Bou asks me when I leave this world, when I arrive before the Malachim there,…

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