Please Say/Whisper the Words out Loud
Friday - 9 Heshvan
Lesson 1 - ABOUT people
Speaking negatively about a business, product, service, hotel, or colony is lashon hora as it can cause financial harm to the person. Ex: "That company’s food has no taste"
Lesson 2 - TO people
The most important rule to remember when you are tempted to criticize someone is: be clear in your mind exactly what you want this person to do or stop doing. Then figure out the best strategy to influence the person to move in this direction.
Shabbat - 10 Heshvan
Lesson 1 -ABOUT people
To say that a store is overpriced is also lashon hora as it will prevent people from going in there.
Lesson 2 - TO people
When you focus on what you want, you will often find that you have no need to negatively criticize someone else, problems will be solved with smoothness.
(Lessons Taken from Purity of Speech and the Power of Words by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin)
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