Chofetz Chaim
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Sep 14, 2026
Joey HaberHOST
I'm gonna give you one example of the beauty of a Torah path, and then I'll end with one last story and conclude.
Joey HaberHOST
A few weeks ago was the Chafetz Chaim's Yortzeit.
Joey HaberHOST
And so I was asked to make a speech that the Chafetz Chaim Heritage Foundation would air on behalf of the Yortzeit of the Chafetz Chaim.
Joey HaberHOST
So, it was gonna be recorded before, I was in my house on a Sunday.
Joey HaberHOST
Maybe it's a week and a half before Rosh Hashanah.
Shlomo ZakheimHOST
It was shocking.
Shlomo ZakheimHOST
You see the Chavetz Chaim, it's like, Like to us, many of us, seeing a video of the Chafetz Chaim can be compared to seeing a video of, I don't know, the Rambam.
Shlomo ZakheimHOST
Or seeing a video of like Aaron HaKayim.
Shlomo ZakheimHOST
Like a video of Aaron HaKayim in the desert, I don't know.
Shlomo ZakheimHOST
The video of Yom Kippur.
Shlomo ZakheimHOST
The Chafetz Chaim.
Shlomo ZakheimHOST
The Chafetz Chaim.
Shlomo ZakheimHOST
I grew up, Baruch Hashem, with my grandfather, and he often spoke, today in class we spoke about a story My grandfather, baruch Hashem, had a very small relationship with one of the great tzaddikim, Rav Yisrael Zalman of Melchizedek.
David KadoshHOST
Yesterday, we spoke about Lashon Hara, evil speech, and the middot that generate from beneath the surface.
David KadoshHOST
Today, we talk about a close cousin, a sin so similar that people often confuse the two, yet distinct enough that the Torah and the Chafetz Chaim can treat it, treat them very separately.
David KadoshHOST
Today, we talk about Rechilut, talebearing, gossip, the carrying of information from one person to another in a way that creates or inflames conflict between them.
David KadoshHOST
And the distinction is worth understanding clearly.
David KadoshHOST
The Sefer HaChinuch explains, because talebearing kills, not with a weapon, with a word.
David KadoshHOST
It destroys reputations, ends relationships, fractures families, tears communities apar-apart, and it does so with a, the particular cruelty of a weapon that leaves no fingerprints because the damage appears to happen between the two people involved, and the person who struck the match is nowhere to be seen.
David KadoshHOST
The Chafetz Chaim identifies a particular form of rechilut that he considers the most dangerous of all, which is so common in our communities that most people have never even identified it as a problem.
David KadoshHOST
He calls it rechilut b'to'elet, talebearing with a purpose.
StarkHOST
A very funny story.
StarkHOST
People like to think of the Chafetz Chaim as all, you know, no lashon hara and always just being nice to everybody.
StarkHOST
But this is a story that's a little bit like a brisker maisa about the Chafetz Chaim.
StarkHOST
Rav Chaim Pimcha Sheinberg, right? Everyone knows from the Lower East Side, you know, real American, L'chol Hadeus, even I knew him in his 90s, he was, you know, American to American.
StarkHOST
He went to Mir, Poland.
StarkHOST
Who does that? Like no running water? Like, excuse me, like an American boy.
StarkHOST
This was an amazing achievement.
StarkHOST
So they brought him to the Chafetz Chaim.
Hershel SchachterHOST
So if you're holding the shofar in your right hand, so you're blowing from the right side of, you know.
Hershel SchachterHOST
So people made up a whole story, [clears throat] that the, the reason why the Chafetz Chaim quotes Rabbi Meir Simcha haKohen is because when the government wanted to close Volozhin Yeshiva, if they don't introduce more, uh, secular education.
Hershel SchachterHOST
So there was a big machloket of the Rabbonim, where they should, uh, they should have more secular education, and at least have people learn, uh, two hours a day Gemara.
Hershel SchachterHOST
Or no, you have to close down the whole yeshiva.
Hershel SchachterHOST
So the Chafetz Chaim was not invited to the meeting.
Hershel SchachterHOST
The Or Same'ach sent out the invitations to the meeting.
Hershel SchachterHOST
Chafetz Chaim wasn't invited.
Hershel SchachterHOST
So he came uninvited, and he came to the, uh, Or Same'ach, and he asked him, "I didn't get an invitation." So he said, "Oh, we only invited big rabbis from big cities.
Nachum MethHOST
The Chavetz Chaim has given us two practical example situations where people very often jump to conclusions when they hear reports about how their friends have treated them in business or in other relationships, and we very quickly jump to conclusions and automatically assume the worst.
Nachum MethHOST
And the Chafetz Chaim, of course, tells us that in these situations, they're so tragic for many reasons.
Nachum MethHOST
And the Chafetz Chaim points out we violate so many Isurei Torah, so many Torah prohibitions, when we hear negative reports about our friends and we immediately jump to conclusions and get really upset about them.
Nachum MethHOST
Chavot Chaim tells us we violate the prohibition of lo sis ha-shem ha-shav.
Nachum MethHOST
You shall not bear a false report.
Reuven BrandHOST
equivalent to bringing the karbon.
Reuven BrandHOST
And so the Chafetz Chaim says, I don't understand.
Reuven BrandHOST
This is crazy.
Reuven BrandHOST
Why is it that people are running around the world looking for schoolas? This is my language.
Reuven BrandHOST
People are looking for schoolas.
Reuven BrandHOST
Why are you looking for schoolas? You want a schoola? Learn zvachem! Because then it will be a ke'ilu, you are a macro of a karbon.
Reuven BrandHOST
What could be a greater eschus? He says, the Mashal, the Chafetz Chaim says, the Mashal, imagine you have a man who has the key to the king's treasury.
Reuven BrandHOST
but he leaves it at home.
Yiddy KleinHOST
By being more attentive and sensitive to our spouse, that is the ultimate act of kindness.
Yiddy KleinHOST
This brings to mind a beautiful idea from the Chafetz Chaim.
Yiddy KleinHOST
By Ebris, we wish to perish.
Yiddy KleinHOST
As the Beis Yosef.
speaker_0HOST
I need to care about that.
speaker_0HOST
The Chafetz Chaim says, what about someone who's concerned about learning Torah or going to a shiur or coming to some, maybe being asked to give a devar Torah, say a v'or, say over something, and the person says, I'm afraid people are going to look down on me.
speaker_0HOST
That's what she came to say.
speaker_0HOST
That's what she has to say.
Yehoshua LiffHOST
A yid has a concept of the ne'imus ha-nefesh.
Yehoshua LiffHOST
The Chafetz Chaim's granddaughter came to him.
Yehoshua LiffHOST
We said over the story a few times.
Yehoshua LiffHOST
We'll say it over again.
Yehoshua LiffHOST
The Chafetz Chaim's 93rd Yartzer coming up this week of the Chafetz Chaim.
Yehoshua LiffHOST
Ah, 93 years ago.
Yehoshua LiffHOST
93, less than a hundred years ago, we had the Chafetz Chaim in our midst.
Yehoshua LiffHOST
We still have the Chafetz Chaim in our midst.
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