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Day 79 - Subjective Listening
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Loshon Hora 10:4
In the previous segment, we learned that it is forbidden for a person to expose someone’s faults if he himself is guilty of the same. In this segment, we learn that it is forbidden to e ....
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Posted 11/30/2007 9:54 AM |
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Day 80 - A Preemptive Strike
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Loshon Hora 10:5-6
The Chofetz Chaim has been discussing the rules of toeles, loshon hora spoken for a constructive purpose. In this segment, he tells us of a case where such speech is forbidden.
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Posted 11/30/2007 9:57 AM |
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Day 81 - Bypassing Rebuke
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Loshon Hora 10:7-8
We have learned that one of the seven conditions for speaking loshon hora l’toeles (for constructive purpose) is that the speaker first rebuke the guilty person privately in the h ....
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Posted 12/5/2007 9:53 PM |
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Day 82 - Beyond Reproach
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Loshon Hora 10:9-10
In the previous segment, we learned that when negative information needs to be related l’toeles (for a constructive purpose) and rebuke is not possible, th ....
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Posted 12/5/2007 10:14 PM |
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Day 83 - Ulterior Motives
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM -- Laws of Loshon Hora 10:11-12
We learned previously that one of the seven conditions of toeles is that our intentions be purely for a constructive purpose. In this segment, the Chofet ....
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Posted 12/5/2007 10:17 PM |
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Day 84 - The Art of Self-Defense
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM -- Laws of Loshon Hora 10:13
The tongue is an awesome weapon. It can destroy people's lives and reputations. It can create divisions between people and tear apart entire communities.
But there are times w ....
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Posted 12/5/2007 11:34 PM |
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Day 85 - A Necessary Review
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Loshon Hora 10:14
We have learned in the previous segment that if someone has been hurt by another party and he can reclaim his loss or prevent further hurt by telling others of the incident, he is perm ....
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Posted 12/6/2007 10:50 PM |
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Day 86 - Be Prepared
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Loshon Hora 10:15_16
A successful public speaker knows that proper preparation is the key to delivering a good speech. A lecturer cannot come unprepared to deliver an address ....
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Posted 12/7/2007 3:22 PM |
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Day 87 - Who’s to Blame?
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Loshon Hora 10:17
In this segment, the Chofetz Chaim examines a case in which you are wrongly accused of something, and it is obvious that the real wrongdoer had to be either ....
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Posted 12/7/2007 3:22 PM |
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Day 88 - Rechilus
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 1:1-2
With this segment, we begin the second part of Sefer Chofetz Chaim, which is devoted to hilchos rechilus, the laws of gossipmongering. The Chofetz Chaim begins ....
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Posted 12/9/2007 11:15 PM |
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Day 89 - Third-Party Support
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 1:3
The Chofetz Chaim begins the laws of rechilus with some fundamental points. Good intentions do not remove a statement from the category of rechilus. If a statement can cause ill will it is ....
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Posted 12/10/2007 11:10 PM |
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Day 90 - Misconceptions
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 1:4-5
Just as, by definition, loshon hora is derogatory or harmful information which is true, so, too, is rechilus true information which can cause ill will. If the information is false, the tr ....
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Posted 12/11/2007 11:21 PM |
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Day 91 - A Worthwhile Sacrifice
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 1:6-7
Rechilus has particular application to the business world because it is common for customers and vendors to traffic information to advance their commercial position. A vendor looking for ....
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Posted 12/13/2007 11:50 AM |
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Day 92 - For the Sake of Peace
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 1:8-9
The Chofetz Chaim has already informed us that we are not permitted to speak rechilus even when pressured to do so. In this segment, he tells us that if possible, one should evade the iss ....
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Posted 12/13/2007 10:10 PM |
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Day 93 - Subtle Incitement
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 1:10-11
Rechilus comes in many forms. In this segment, the Chofetz Chaim examines a case which is unusual in that the listener is not being told anything which he did ....
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Posted 12/14/2007 3:49 PM |
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Day 94 - Ambiguous Statements
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 2:1-2
Rechilus is forbidden even when told to one person. Certainly, says the Chofetz Chaim, it is forbidden when said publicly. One might argue: “If I announce in public, ‘Chaim called Meir a ....
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Posted 12/14/2007 3:49 PM |
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Day 95 - Public and Private Information
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 2:3-4
In the laws of loshon hora, the Chofetz Chaim discussed the concept of “api tlasa” (before three), where a negative statement was made in the presence of three people, which is considered ....
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Posted 12/16/2007 11:32 PM |
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Day 96 - In the Subject’s Presence
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 3:1
It is all too often that a baal loshon hora ends his tirade with, “And if he were standing here, I would say it anyway!” In the laws of loshon hora, the Chofetz Chaim taught that such b ....
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Posted 12/18/2007 12:40 AM |
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Day 97 - Second-Level Rechilus
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM Laws of Rechilus 3:2-4
Until this point, we have dealt with what we will call “first-level rechilus,” where Reuven talks negatively about Shimon to Levi, who reports this conversation back to Shimon.
The C ....
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Posted 12/18/2007 11:33 PM |
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Day 98 - Fanning the Flames
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 4:1-3
This brief chapter in Sefer Chofetz Chaim is a very revealing one. Earlier (Day 93), the Chofetz Chaim presented a situation where one is guilty of rechilus without telling the person any ....
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Posted 12/19/2007 10:22 PM |
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Important Numbers
