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There was a story of a man who it was it
was said about him. It was said about
him that itself is lash. There was a
story of a man whose every conversation
included lashhara. Every conversation he
ever spoke. He spread rumors about
innocent people and he caused them
immeasurable harm. Anyways, one day his
conscience got the best of him and
influenced him to do chuva. He ran to
his rebi crying terribly and he said,
"All of my life I have been speaking
lashara. all of my life, forbidden
speech, evil speech, this, that,
everything. And I want to do chuva. I
want to ja tell me to do whatever I need
to do and I will do it. Fasting, giving
sodaka, giving a lot of sodaka. The
like, yeah, how much seducka we dog?
Yeah, fasting, ding, saddaka, whatever
you need. And the rebellar
is one of the worst aes
none of these methods that you're saying
are going to be necessary. So, I'll tell
you what to do. What you're going to do
is you're going to fill a bag and you're
going to put feathers in the bag and
you're going to go to all the people
that you ever spoke lashar to and you're
going to put one feather outside their
house and when you done that come back
to me. The guy's like,
"Huh? I could just give you I'll give
the shaka." He's like, "No, that's what
you're going to do." Okay. He couldn't
fathom how this procedure was going to
work. But he goes, he gets a bag of
feathers, puts it in front of every
house that he remembered
that he spoke about that person. And
anyways, he comes back to the Reb and he
says,
"I did what you said. I did what you
said. Now what?" So the Reb says, "Now
go back to every house and I want you to
pick up every feather that you put
there." Okay? Go pick up and give them
all to me. The man left to fulfill what
his Reb told him. And he came back very
disappointed. He said, "It's impossible.
Every single feather is gone." It was
all blown away in the wind. So what do I
do? And the Reb said, "Ah,
that's what I want to teach you.
This is the terrible, terrible
devastation and destruction and
ramifications of Lashinhara. As much as
you want to do chuva,
there's a limit of how much we could
really fix. Not in every situation, but
in many situations, the damage is done.
The word has spread.
This is the power of lash. This is the
power of your words. What do you see
from the story? You see from the story
that the damage of lash cannot always be
eradicated completely cuz what you said
the business is closed. You could do
chuva. You could go back and apologize.
You could get forgiveness but in the end
of the day the business is shut down.
They're divorced. He was fired.
The pain is there. So even after the
speaker regretted everything that he
regretted all of his actions everything
and he attempts he wants to make amends.
He wants to all that evil that I did I
want to fix it. In the end of the day, I
mean, we're not for sure we have to do
chu and we're for sure there's there's a
kap somewhat something, right? We don't
give up hope on anything ever, but in
the end of the day, there's still things
around. There's still things there in
many stories, in many situations. So,
too the same thing over here. The snakes
are still going to be around because
what you said happened. It's there.
That's it. You complained about the
money. You you said against Hashem. You
said against
even though regretted their action says
this is the lesson. The snakes are going
to stay. Yes, of course you want them to
go away, but they're going to stay. Now,
they're not going to kill you cuz you
have that copper snake to look at. But
just remember that the things that you
say while sitting by your pool or just
stam schmoozing. You didn't mean
anything bad. Sometimes the devastation
could be terrible, terrible. And yeah,
you could take back a little bit. Maybe
you could ask forgiveness. Okay, you
could comfort the person, but many very
very often the damage is done. Say, what
do we learn from here? And why is this
na for now? The answer is that we're in
the beginning of the summer. That's why.
And it's pa. We need to know the
magnitude of responsibility that we have
every time we open our mouths. And we're
all going to be talking over the next
few months cuz that's just what we do in
the summers. this counselor,
this thing, this thing, this rabbi, this
student, this camper, this camp, this
food, this bungalow, that bungalow,
they're new, they're coming, who's
leaving. There's so much to talk about.
A complaint, criticism, stom hacking for
no reason other than we're by the pool.
I'm saying we're sitting here all day
for hours. So, what else should we do?
Why didn't this work? Why didn't that
shak work? Let's talk bad about people.
Not cuz we're bad people, not cuz we're
malicious. I'm sure none of us mean bad.
But in the end of the day, we have to
remember the devastating effects that we
can have if we're not careful.
