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Day 126 - Serious Flaws
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM Afterword: Shidduchim Situations (continued)
Having informed us in strong terms what we are not permitted to relate when providing information concerning a shidduch, the Chofetz Chaim now discusses negative infor ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:46 AM |
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Day 125 – Destructive Labeling
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM Afterword: Shidduchim Situations
The Chofetz Chaim devotes the remainder of his sefer to the topic of shidduchim (marriage matches).
If we were to look at the Torah as a kind of “Manufacturer’s Manual” for ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:45 AM |
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Day 124 - Stumbling Blocks
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM Afterword: Business Situations (continued)
In this segment, the Chofetz Chaim teaches us an important rule concerning giving advice.
Shimon is seeking a partner with whom to start a business. He sets his ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:44 AM |
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Day 123 – Risky Partnerships
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM Afterword: Business Situations
In this segment we are introduced to Shimon, a reckless businessman with an appetite for risk — especially when the money which he is investing is not his own.
On ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:43 AM |
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Day 122 - Avoiding Blame
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 9:14-15
This segment opens with a situation where a friend confronts us: “Someone used my calculator and left it on — tell me who it was!” Revealing the culprit’s ide ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:42 AM |
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Day 121 – Friendly Incitement
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 9:13
Righteous indignation is a feeling which nearly everyone experiences at some point in time. While it stems from the sense that truth and justice are on our side, ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:39 AM |
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Day 120 - After the Fact
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 9:11-12
In the previous segment, the Chofetz Chaim presented a case where one would be obligated to speak rechilus for a constructive purpose. A simpleton was on the verge of making a purchase ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:38 AM |
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Day 119 - A Shrewd Operator
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 9:10
Because it is so easy to err in the area of constructive speech, the Chofetz Chaim saw fit to offer the following illustration and expound upon it:
You are walking down a street in ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:37 AM |
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Day 118 - Negative Support
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 9:7-9
If we take a hard look at the missteps and blunders we make in life, we will find one common denominator in most of these actions: we always have support for what we do. This support help ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:35 AM |
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Day 117 - Flouting the Law
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 9:5-6
In a previous segment (Day 115) we listed five conditions which must be fulfilled before we can relate rechilus for a constructive purpose.
The fifth condition was that the recipie ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:34 AM |
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Day 116 - Threats
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 9:3-4
In this segment, the Chofetz Chaim offers an example of a person whom you heard plotting to harm or embarrass someone. Certainly if the threat is serious then it must be reported, for the ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:32 AM |
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Day 115 – Constructive Rechilus
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 9:1-2
We now begin the concluding chapter of Sefer Chofetz Chaim. In his introduction to the chapter, the Chofetz Chaim writes, “In this chapter, we will explain when ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:30 AM |
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Day 114 - A Touch of Ill Will
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 8:4-5
It is forbidden to tell a person a remark which was made about him, if that remark will cause him to be even slightly upset — though it contains nothing which is actually derogatory. Rela ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:26 AM |
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Day 113 - Avak Rechilus
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 8:1-3
In this segment, we begin learning the laws of avak rechilus (the “dust” of rechilus); statements which are not actual rechilus but which are nonetheless forbid ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:25 AM |
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Day 112 - Threats to Familial Peace
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 7:5
In this segment, the Chofetz Chaim finds it necessary to once again discuss the matter of conversation between husband and wife. If someone tells a woman something derogatory about her husb ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:24 AM |
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Day 111 - Relatives and Non-Jews
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 7:3-4
If Shimon tells Reuven’s wife that Levi spoke negatively of Reuven, Shimon has committed an act of rechilus. Though he has not repeated the story to Reuven himself, there is no doubt that ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:23 AM |
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Day 110 - The Ignorant and the Scholarly
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 7:2
In this segment, the Chofetz Chaim gives us two examples of rechilus which are at opposite extremes. The first deals with an am ha’aretz, a Jew who is woefully poor in his knowledge of Tora ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:22 AM |
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Day 109 - Between Parent and Child
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 7:1
The laws of rechilus apply to all Jews. There is no difference whether the speaker is a relative or stranger. And there is no difference whether the person being spoken about is an adult or ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:20 AM |
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Day 108 - Informers
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 6:10
In this segment, the Chofetz Chaim introduces us to a particularly deadly strain of gossip, a brand of loshon hora which is instinctively abhorrent to the average Jew. We are referring t ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:19 AM |
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Day 107 - With Innocence and With Proof
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 6:8-9
Both in the laws of loshon hora and the laws of rechilus, the Chofetz Chaim has stressed that someone who intentionally relates negative talk without a construc ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:18 AM |
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Important Numbers
