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A Torah shiur on the importance of learning from the past in guarding speech.
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Good morning, gentlemen. We're on the 11th segment of Think Before You Speak, the Shmiras Halashon series with clarity. This is Lilui Nishmas the Chafetz Chaim Zechor Tzadik Livracha. It's Lilui Nishmas Toufic Baruch ben Esther, Lilui Nishmato, a very holy and special Jew. At the same time, it's also Lilui Nishmas Rabbeinu Hakadosh Rabi Yehudah Hanasi. Today is the Yahrtzeit. Hashem and the Zechus of the Tzadikim and the Halacha should bring a tremendous Yeshua and Shmira to all of our bnei chavura, all the Yeshuos we need for klal Yisrael Yeshuos, and specifically the Yeshuos and Shmira Gedola Chaim Davidov ben Chaya Sarah. Today's Halacha, the title, the pest. You know, there are some people that they feel more frum when they put down other people's religious observance. Instead of them kind of working on becoming greater in their own Avodas Hakodesh, they feel more religious when mentioning and putting down the Avodas Hakodesh of other people. And this is, besides a terrible middah, it's also a terrible violation when it comes to lashon hara. It is absolutely forbidden to tell over the mistakes that people make in their Torah observance to other people. The level of a person's observance when it comes to, let's say, the laws of
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- 0:01Good morning, gentlemen. We're on the 11th segment of Think Before You Speak, the Shmiras Halashon…
- 0:31should bring a tremendous Yeshua and Shmira to all of our bnei chavura, all the Yeshuos…
- 1:02becoming greater in their own Avodas Hakodesh, they feel more religious when mentioning and putting down…
- 1:33Shabbat, where it comes to, let's say, any observance of mitzvos, are not allowed to be…
- 2:04to anyone else in a derogatory way. And not only that, Rabotai, listen to this. You're…
- 2:35of the laws of shmirat halashon of lashon hara. Now, it makes no difference. It makes…
- 3:06absolute lashon hara, and it's forbidden, period. And you're definitely not allowed to remind the baal…
- 3:37once upon a time before they did teshuvah, and bringing up the past of the areas…
- 4:07that we forget. Hashem never forgets. But Hashem says, "I'm willing to make it as if…
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