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Oz VeGaon Zoom Lecture: The 1948 Battle for Gush Etzion This Sunday Apr. 18
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We are happy to invite you to our next fascinating Zoom lecture?in Hebrew, please G-d, this Sunday, April 18th at 7:00 pm with?Yaron Rosenthal the Director of the Kfar Etzion Field School, the?topic of his lecture is?"The Queen Has Fallen, the Queen Has Arisen - the 1948 Battle for Gush Etzion".If you have already registered for our lecture series, you will get a?reminder?and a?direct link to?the Zoom lecture. Whoever would like to register (fee: 100 NIS or $30 for the entire series) please send your details to?ribonut@...?Whoever registers for the series, will also receive the links to our past recorded lectures.?For a list of all our lectures, please go to:?
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SEFER SHMIRAS HALOSHON
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When Foes Become Friends
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Sefer Ma’alos HaMiddos continues:
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The Talmud states that no man —even a gentile in the marketplace —ever preceded Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai in extending a greeting of peace (Berachos 17a).
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Our Sages taught: “Initiate a greeting of peace to every person” (Avos?4:20).
What is meant by “every person”? Even if you know that someone bears you ill will, nevertheless, initiate a greeting of peace toward him. This will awaken a feeling of love for you within him. And even if he will not humble himself to make peace with you,
God will humble him before you [so that he will not cause you any harm]. An allusion to this is found in Scripture, “But if he does not make peace with you ... HASHEM shall deliver him into your hand” (Devarim?20:12-13).
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Illustrative of the above is the story of David and Shaul. David sought peace with Shaul, while Shaul, far from being appeased, pursued David with the intent of harming him. Thus did David say, “I am peace —but when I speak, they are for war” (Tehillim 120:7).
In two separate episodes, Hashem gave Shaul over into David’s hands [and David could have easily killed him]. Yet, it did not enter David’s mind to cause Shaul any harm, for man must love peace and pursue it.
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SEFER SHMIRAS HALOSHON
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The Quality of Peace
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Through shmiras haloshon one is blessed with the precious quality of peace. By refraining from speaking ill of others, one ensures that he will not be the object of their enmity; to the contrary, others will love him and confide in him, and surely will not
speak ill of him.
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Peace is precious, for in its merit, God does not allow Satan to harm the Jewish people, even when idolatry is found among them (Bamidbar Rabbah?11:16).1
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One who accustoms himself to speaking favorably of others merits that God refers to him as Peace, which is one of God’s own Names.2 Conversely, with regard to the gossiper, the Sages state: “One who dines with his fellow and then speaks disparagingly of him
is referred to by the Holy One, Blessed is He, as, evil, as it is written, “Deceit in the heart of those who plot evil” (Mishlei?12:20).
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One who belittles others will, in the end, be the object of scorn — aside from the retribution that he will incur. The early commentators find an allusion to this in the verse, “Just as he inflicted a wound upon a person, so will be inflicted upon him” (Vayikra
24:20). Moreover, by speaking loshon hora, one becomes an object of contempt even in the eyes of his listener, who accepted his sinful words as truth. As the Sages put it, “False witnesses are contemptible even in the eyes of those who hire them” (Sanhedrin
29a). And his listeners will forever suspect that he might one day speak ill of them.
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SEFER SHMIRAS HALOSHON
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Rewards
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Zohar states (Parashas Chukas) that one who is zealous in avoiding forbidden speech becomes enveloped in a spirit of sanctity.
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Midrash Tanchuma (Tehillim 52:2) states: “The Holy One, Blessed is He, said: ‘If you seek to escape [the punishments of] Gehinnom, distance yourselves from loshon hora. Through this, you will be deemed meritorious in this world and the next.’ ”
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The Torah states: “You shall not eat flesh of an animal that was torn in the field; to the dog shall you throw it” (Shemos?2:30).
In fact, it is permitted to dispose of such meat in other ways as well. However, the Torah says to throw such meat to dogs as a way of reward for their not having howled at any Jew on the night of the Exodus (ibid. 11:7), for Hashem does not deprive any creature
of its just reward. Surely, then, there is infinite reward reserved for man, who, through his own free choice, refrains from speaking the forbidden (Mechilta, Parashas Mishpatim 20). |
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SEFER SHMIRAS HALOSHON
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Forfeiting the Greatest of Treasures
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Speaking loshon hora can cause the inestimable merit of one’s Torah study to be forfeited. In the words of Midrash Shochar Tov (Tehillim ch. 52):
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Let not your mouth bring guilt on your flesh, and do not tell the emissary that it was an error. Why should God be angered by your speech and destroy the work of your hands? (Koheles 5:5).
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?Let not your mouth bring guilt on your flesh —by speaking loshon hora.
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Why should God be angered by your speech and destroy the work of your hands? — for you will lose the little Torah which you have to your credit.
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The intent of this Midrash is that, as already discussed,1 speaking loshon hora causes the speaker’s merits to be transferred to the Heavenly account of the person against whom he spoke.
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When a Jew studies Torah, he perfects his entire being, for he draws upon himself a spirit of sanctity, which gives vitality to his body in this world and to his soul in the next world. Thus do the Sages teach (Eruvin 54a): “One who feels pain in his head should
study Torah... One who feels pain in his throat should study Torah... One who feels pain in his entire body should study Torah, as it is written (Mishlei?4:22),
‘And a cure for his entire flesh.’ ”
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And all this can be lost through speaking loshon hora.
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Goodness, positivity and spiritual growth - Interesting essay by Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Often when looking out at the world we
see a rather bleak image. There is so much that is dark and ugly, that we can
even be blinded to all the good that continually surrounds us. In his latest
essay, Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo discusses the negative spiritual
ramifications of seeing only the bad in the world, and how appreciating the good
can bring us to understand that we have a moral and religious purpose.?
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Rabbi Cardozo writes that speaking
‘lashon hara’ of the universe is the antithesis to the purpose of genuine
religious life, which is to protest the optical illusion of only darkness, and
to teach us to refocus our spiritual spectacles.
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SEFER SHMIRAS HALOSHON
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Pure and Untainted
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The Talmud states:
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Reish Lakish said in the name of R’ Yehudah Nesiah: “The world is sustained only in the merit of the breath [of? Torah study] of school children.”
Said R’ Pappa to Abaye: “And what is with yours and mine [i.e. our Torah study]?”
Abaye replied: “There is no comparison between breath that is tainted by sin and breath that is free of sin” (Shabbos 119b).
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If the Sages were, to their minds, guilty of forbidden speech, it could only have been an inadvertent and rare occurrence. Yet they declared their words of Divine service to be tainted because of this. How much more so is this true of one who habitually speaks
the forbidden — especially loshon hora, which causes ill will and strife among Jews.
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SEFER SHMIRAS HALOSHON
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Points to Ponder
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The following is drawn from the writings of the holy Alshich:
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How can one speak before the King of kings with a mouth which utters forbidden talk? Would not God, as it were, respond, “Who is this shameful person who dares to beg forgiveness of his sins with a lowly tongue? Would he dare serve an earthly king with vessels
which are covered with grime? Surely the king would punish him severely for such disgraceful service!”
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How can one contemplate singing the praises of Psalms before the “One Who spoke and the world came into being” with a tongue which speaks evil talk? Should not one refrain from bringing an unclean object into the Sanctuary of God — out of respect for the Glory
that dwells there? Can one not feel a sense of shame, having taken that which was given him to serve his Creator, and transformed it into something despicable? Can one hope to seek God’s favor with a mouth that is impure? Can one transform an accuser into
an advocate?
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SEFER SHMIRAS HALOSHON
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The Metzora’s Cry
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Zohar (Parashas Metzora) states:
The prayer of one who speaks loshon hora will not come before the Holy One, Blessed is He, for a ruach tamei (impure spirit) hovers over it. When he repents, and [sincerely] accepts upon himself the [various aspects of] repentance, then what is written of him?
“On the day of his purification, he shall be brought before the Kohen” (Vayikra 14:2).1
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The above lends added clarity to the Torah’s instruction that the metzora (one who is afflicted with tzaraas for having spoken loshon hara2) call out to those who pass by, “[I am] contaminated, contaminated!” (ibid.13:45) so that they will pray for him. Since
his own prayers will not be accepted Above, the Torah therefore advises him to request that others pray on his behalf.
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Scripture declares: “Take note of God’s work! For who can straighten what he has twisted?” (Koheles?7:13).
We can interpret this as follows: Take note of God’s work! Ponder well the Heavenly fruits of a Jew’s prayer on this earth: prayer can radiate spiritual light and create exalted edifices in the Upper Worlds. Ensure, then, that your prayers be uttered with
proper readiness, and by a mouth that is pure and unsullied by sin. For who can straighten what he has twisted? If one’s prayer will be lacking, then its spiritual products in the Upper Worlds will be lacking as well. This will bring eternal distress to one’s
soul, for these are not earthly structures, which can be repaired or improved by a second craftsman.
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As Hillel declared: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?” (Avos?1:14).
Only the person himself has the power to correct his past mistakes — through proper repentance and a firm resolve to live by the laws of proper speech.
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1. Homiletically, this means that having repented and achieved purification, the metzora is? assured that his prayers
will, once again, gain acceptance Above.
2. Contrary to its common translation, tzaraas is not leprosy or some other bodily disease, but the physical manifestation of spiritual malady. As R’ Samson Raphael Hirsch demonstrates, if tzaraas were some biological disorder and the metzora’s confinement
were to prevent contagion, then some of its related laws are inexplicable. For example, if the symptoms of tzaraas are found on a newlywed during the festive week following marriage, the Kohen does not pronounce the person tamei (impure) so as not to interfere
with the festivities. Also, the Torah states that if one’s entire body is covered with tzaraas, he is tahor (pure), but if one spot on his body heals, then he is t
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