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Shiduchim and its Obstacles - Shemirat Halashon Part 83 - Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

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Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

A lesson on the importance of guarding one's speech in the context of shiduchim.

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Good morning, gentlemen. This is the 83rd segment for the think before you speak series, the laws of clarity with a few stories. We learn the great Zekher Tzaddik Livrakha. We learn the great Rav Chaim Kanievsky Zekher Tzaddik Livrakha. We learn the great Rav Zecharya Wallerstein. Zekher Tzaddik Livrakha. We learn the great Rav Zev. Liza Elizabeth Henrietta and her children that passed in the fire. Ruach Hashem Teniche Eden Eden. And these Halachot should be a specific Shmira and Hatzlacha Gedola Zechut for our Benei Chavura that learns in the Kolel every morning for Balabatem from 9:00 to 11:30. We're pushing it. Be'ezrat Hashem. Be'ezrat Hashem. And this should be these Halachot should be a great Shmira, Hatzlacha Gedola, Nesiyat Chen, Shefa for Chaim David ben Chaya Sarah. Today's title for the Halachot Shidduchim and its obstacles. So, now I'm going to tell you a quick story. And I'm sure in the past you've heard very similar types of stories when it came to Shidduchim. We have a family who a wonderful Shidduch suggestion came across for their daughter. And sure enough, the boy and girl started going out, and suddenly, out of nowhere, the boy decides to break the Shidduch. Doesn't want to continue. So, this is very alarming. It's seeming that between the boy and the girl, things were going really well. So, they reach out to the Shadchan. And this time, they find out what they suspected was the reason why the last Shidduchim did not work out for their daughter. The neighbor. The Shadchan this time said, "Yep. It's not just a suspicion anymore, but your neighbor probably knocked out other shidduchim in the past for your children, but this neighbor knocked down this shidduch as

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  1. 0:01Good morning, gentlemen. This is the 83rd segment for the think before you speak series, the…
  2. 0:32And these Halachot should be a specific Shmira and Hatzlacha Gedola Zechut for our Benei Chavura…
  3. 1:02Shidduchim and its obstacles. So, now I'm going to tell you a quick story. And I'm…
  4. 1:34that between the boy and the girl, things were going really well. So, they reach out…
  5. 2:05well. The other side heard, and they bailed out on the shidduch and broke it. The…
  6. 2:39rechilus, that the neighbor was the one that said something to the boy's family, and that…
  7. 3:10that it was the neighbor that broke the shidduch, you're not allowed to believe it as…
  8. 3:42begether a rumor. And halakhically, you're not allowed to believe it as true. That is the…
  9. 4:13shidduch after shidduch, just when things started to get good, the girl backed out, dropped it…
  10. 4:45"I'm never going to get married. Every time I go out with a girl and starts…

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