{"id":4945306,"date":"2025-05-06T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breslev.co.il\/?p=4945306"},"modified":"2025-05-07T08:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:26:59","slug":"israel-without-lashon-hara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/4945306\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Without Lashon Hara\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">If only we could live in a world without evil speech.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">No profanity\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">No slander\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">No gossip\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">There are over 10 million species in this world, and we are the only ones Hashem gives the gift of speech. It\u2019s as if Hashem gave everyone in New York City a lottery ticket and He gave you the winning number.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Every time we misuse this gift, tragedy ensues.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">On the 9th of Av while still in the desert, we engaged in lashon hara about the Land of Israel by listening to the slander of the spies. For thousands of years since then, the 9th of Av has been marked with tragedy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">We spoke lashon hara all throughout 2023. Fortunately, Iran, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Authority didn\u2019t bother to listen. But Yahya Sinwar knew Hebrew. He listened to Israeli news stations day and night. Like an animal that senses weakness in its prey, he knew our vile speech towards one another rendered us lambs to the slaughter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">If we could eliminate lashon hara, we could eliminate baseless hatred. If we could eliminate baseless hatred and lashon hara, we could merit Hashem\u2019s blessing in eliminating any future tragedy we might be vulnerable to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Does this sound impossible?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">There is a solution.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><b>The Plight of the Metzora<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">What used to happen to someone who spoke slander or gossip?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">It wasn\u2019t pretty.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A <i>baal lashon hara<\/i> (one who habitually speaks slander or gossip) is someone who wants to make someone else look like a fool. In doing so, the <i>baal lashon hara<\/i> exiles this poor soul from the community, making him appear like a pariah before his friends and family.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">People lose friends, relationships, jobs, business opportunities, a marriage, and even family members due to others&#8217; nonchalant comments. To prevent such behavior, the punishment should be as severe as the consequences.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">That\u2019s the way it was when Moshe led us in the desert. <b>That\u2019s what parshat <em>Tazria <\/em>and <em>Metzora <\/em>is all about.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Back then, if you spoke ill about your brother, you broke out in blisters. <em>Tazria <\/em>is a physical affliction that has a spiritual root cause. So, no medicine can cure it. Everybody who sees him knows exactly why he has blemishes on his flesh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">That alone would be enough to make sure we all gave a few seconds of thought before we spoke.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">It gets worse.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The speaker of lashon hara (the <i>metzora<\/i>) must go into exile. He leaves his family, his friends, and his livelihood for a place outside the community. It\u2019s not a jail sentence. Jail terms are fixed. You can even get time off for good behavior.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">This sentence of exile is open-ended.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The <i>metzora <\/i>stays in exile until he makes repentance for lashon hara. This can take a month, six months, or much longer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">When he does make repentance, the lesions on his flesh go away. The Kohen proclaims him pure. But even after making repentance, it\u2019s not over.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Before he returns to the community, he must shave off all his hair.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">He is bald.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">His arms are smooth as a baby\u2019s cheeks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">He has no beard.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">For as long as it takes for his hair to grow back, everyone who sees him knows why he has no hair . . . anywhere.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">He tried to humiliate another, so now he is humiliated.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">In the time it takes for everything to grow back, the metzora can encounter hundreds of family members, friends, people in synagogue, and co-workers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">If you went through this just once, would you ever speak harshly against anyone again?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><b>Life Without Hate<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Imagine Israel without lashon hara.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Think of the wars we fought since Hashem instituted these laws: \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Sichon and Og? They had far superior military forces, and we made minced meat out of them, conquering Jordan in the process.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Midianites? We destroyed them without suffering a single casualty on our way to conquering the Holy Land.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Bilaam tried to use his mouth to curse us into defeat. Instead, Hashem told him that there is no sin in Israel. This prophet, as powerful as Moshe and undefeated in destroying enemies with his words, became speechless and powerless. In the end, this greatest of enemies began to use his words to praise us with blessings so powerful that to this day, we use our words to recite them in our morning prayers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">This is the miracle Hashem gives us! The chance to be pure with our words. The chance to live undeterred by any adversary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">We have Iran to contend with. We have Arab Palestinians to contend with. We have Edomite Europe to contend with. We have Hamite China and their allies to contend with.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><b><i>As I write these words, sirens are blaring throughout Afula due to incoming missiles from Yemen.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Can we fight seven armies and their trillion dollar backers forever? Is it possible to combat this global octopus forever?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">We don\u2019t need to! This is the Hashem\u2019s gift to Israel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Without lashon hara, God will fight our enemies! Hashem will protect us with miracles and wonders. The world will recognize the greatness of our Master and King \u2013 and leave His children to serve Him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">We inch closer to this great merit every time we work on refining our speech. With every proper word spoken, and every improper word withheld, we serve each other in meriting Hashem\u2019s continuing miraculous protection.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">May Hashem bless us with <i>the return of the metzora<\/i> so we will be too terrified to ever speak against one another again. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">***\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/300marketingsolutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Ben Horin<\/a><\/strong><\/span> lives in the Jezreel Valley with his family, Afula&#8217;s famous sunflowers, and the local camel, Matilda. <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:david@300marketing.co\">David loves to write<\/a><\/span><\/strong> about Judaism, Torah, Israel, and personal happiness.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If only we could live in a world without evil speech.\u00a0\u00a0 No profanity\u00a0 No slander\u00a0 No gossip\u00a0 \u00a0 There are over 10 million species in this world, and we are the only ones Hashem gives the gift of speech. It\u2019s as if Hashem gave everyone in New York City a lottery ticket and He gave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/breslev.com\/4945306\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Israel Without Lashon Hara\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62109,"featured_media":4945307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[15146],"tags":[54956,55054,20259,16465],"author_post":[16252],"new_serie":[],"class_list":["post-4945306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jewish-daily-life-and-halacha","tag-evil-speech","tag-shmirat-halashon","tag-leprosy","tag-redemption","author_post-david-ben-horin"],"acf":{"paragraph_first":"Sinwar knew that our vile speech towards one another rendered us lambs to the slaughter.  ","paragraph_second":"This is the miracle Hashem gives us! The chance to be pure with our words. The chance to live undeterred by any adversary.\u00a0\u00a0","meta_title":"Israel Without Lashon Hara ","meta_description":"Wouldn\u2019t it be great if a bolt of lightning slammed down right next to us every time we spoke slander? We would serve Hashem with even greater alacrity. We would receive His blessings and Divine protection to an even greater degree. ","special_content_in_the_post":"none","youtube":"","intro_text":"<p><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW261722653 BCX0\">Wouldn\u2019t<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW261722653 BCX0\"> it be great if <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW261722653 BCX0\">a bolt of lightning slammed <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW261722653 BCX0\">down right<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW261722653 BCX0\"> next to us every time we s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW261722653 BCX0\">poke slander<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW261722653 BCX0\">? We <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW261722653 BCX0\">would <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW261722653 BCX0\">serve Hashem<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW261722653 BCX0\"> with even greater <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW261722653 BCX0\">alacrity<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW261722653 BCX0\">. 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