The True Power of Speech - Rabbi Mendel Kessin

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

let me ask you we know that the temple was destroyed because of baseless hatred the says on this idea that the tal brings down that baseless hatred really is the concept of lush and horror because when a person has a certain amount of baseless hatred of course they speak Lush and horror the question is why was the temple destroyed because of lushan hara and we know Lush andara of course translates as slander why was the course translates as slander why was the temple destroyed because of slander could you imagine that God takes his holiest place and destroys it because of the concept of the sin of slander how do we understand this not only that we know also that the Jewish people have been in exile for thousands of years and we also know that the Exile has been caused because of slander or lashara this is what the tells us again how do we understand this why should the Jews be understand this why should the Jews be so many thousands of years in Exiles because of the sin of lush and horror this is the question not only that there's another question let me ask you again we also know that not only are the Jews in Exile but there is a great man who lived about 200 years ago his name was Rabbi rur from hurg he said a remarkable statement and brings him down in his writings he said that every single problem that the Jews have had from the beginning of creation is

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1. 0:03let me ask you we know that the temple was destroyed because of baseless hatred the…
2. 5:42they spoke Lush and horor or slander do you believe this and a generation that worships…
3. 11:52Hebrew that is called a kitr he's a prosecuting attorney and he prosecutes in fact he's…
4. 18:01can also initiate the judicial process measure for measure what does that mean it means the…
5. 24:43realize that 90% of the reason why you're in court is because of your fault your…
6. 30:54it's much easier to bear this is what happens whereas in that courtroom have you been…
7. 37:02existence this is what must happen everything is connected now in the beginning horish the first…
8. 43:07S and inverse relationship a ciso relationship then that is the exact relationship we also have…
9. 49:15of the second temple the answer is Christianity what does this mean did you ever wonder…
10. 55:23around at that time and it began to expand into who into the famous stages the…

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