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Day 99 - Listening vs. Accepting
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 5:1-2
“Just as the Torah prohibits us from accepting loshon hora as fact, so too, it is forbidden to accept rechilus,” the Chofetz Chaim states. To accept rechilus is to transgress the negative ....
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Posted 12/20/2007 11:17 PM |
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Day 100 - Acting upon Suspicion
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 5:3-4
In the previous segment, we learned that we are permitted to listen to rechilus—without accepting it as fact—in order to protect ourselves from possible harm. I ....
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Posted 12/21/2007 11:52 AM |
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Day 101- Inside Information
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 5:5
The following case represents an all-too-common practice: Reuven works for a company which determines salary raises for its employees through an annual salary review. Today is the day when ....
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Posted 12/21/2007 11:53 AM |
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Day 102 – Subjective Thinking
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 5:6-7
As we know, when a person does something which affects us negatively, our reaction will often depend on who that person is. For example:
You arranged to get a ride home with ....
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Posted 12/24/2007 9:43 AM |
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Day 103 – Compelling Situations
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 6:1-2
We have been discussing the issue of accepting rechilus, a report that somebody said something negative about you or did something harmful to you. In this segme ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:10 AM |
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Day 104 - A Tragic Episode
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 6:3-4
The Chofetz Chaim continues his discussion of the prohibition against accepting rechilus as fact. In this segment, he describes a very common scenario in the bu ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:12 AM |
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Day 105 - At Home
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 6:5-6
Married couples often mistakenly think that passing information from one to the other is not rechilus. They assume that because their lives are so intertwined, each should know what the o ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:14 AM |
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Day 106 - A Man of Trust
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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM — Laws of Rechilus 6:6-7
In the laws of loshon hora (Day 61), we discussed a situation where the person relating the loshon
hora is Mheiman K’Brei Trei, that is, where the listener considers the speaker’s ....
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Posted 1/20/2008 1:16 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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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