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Cursed is the one who says lashon hara
hiddenly cuz that's the worst thing you
can do.
Let me help you understand what I'm
talking about.
A couple of months ago, I read a very
fascinating article.
We all know that when the president
delivers his delivers a speech, he has a
teleprompter.
The teleprompter are like two screens on
his right and his left, right in front
of him on the podium, and it has his
entire speech written out word for word,
and basically the president is just
reading the script.
Now, he has an operator, a teleprompter
operator, who takes the written speech,
uploads it to the screen. That's his
responsibility. Not so big, but he has a
huge responsibility in taking the
president's let's say the State of the
Union speech, he has it. No one else has
it. He does.
And he uploads it to the teleprompter.
President Trump,
his teleprompter operator is Gabriel
Perez. I believe he's Jewish. Right,
it's a Jewish name.
And he would take the speech
and he would upload it.
Now, there's something also called the
prediction market.
When the president is about to deliver a
major speech, let's say the State of the
Union,
people are betting
what is he going to say? Not the
general, specifics.
Is he going to say a certain word? Is he
going to say a certain phrase? People
bet he'll say this phrase. People bet he
won't say this phrase. And people make
money. Let's say for example, he's going
to deliver the State of the Union
address and he's going to talk about
tariffs. So, people bet, yes tariffs
he's going to talk about, no tariffs. Is
he going to talk about Japan? I'm going
to tariff them 50%? Canada 75%? People
bet whether that's going to be included.
Now, this guy
knew exactly what the president was
going to say. He knew the phrases. He
knew whether he was going to speak about
those
words that people were betting on.
And he would bet. And of course he would
win, cuz he knew. He had all the
information in his hands.
The government saw this unusual pattern.
He was caught.
He was forced to take a leave of
absence. He made about $100,000 off of
this betting thing, and he had to return
the money.
I say
you learn a very big lesson from this
story that has to do with lashon hara.
This guy
This guy, Gabriel Peretz,
was trusted.
He was trusted with very, very vital
information.
And what did he do?
He turned it for his own use.
That's what this possuk is talking
about.
Makah re'ehu beseter.
Hitting your friend
beseter, hiddenly, secretly.
How?
All of us
have information about other people.
Right? You know something about somebody
else. You know something about somebody
else.
Right? For example,
you have a friend you know he's facing
challenges in his marriage.
He told you.
What do you do with that information?
Secret.
That That could also be lashon hara,
but it's also a secret.
Do you have a right to share that with
anybody?
Let's say you have a child
who's struggling, struggling in school,
struggling with friends, struggling
emotionally,
and he shares that information with you.
What do you do with the information?
How about a friend you know who's in
business
and he's facing difficulties in his
business,
and he shares it with you.
What do you do with that information?
That's the question.
You know what the Torah is telling us?
All this information that each of us
carry
creates a tremendous amount of
responsibility.
We have a huge responsibility.
And you know what it is?
Do I share this information?
Do I exploit this information? I got it.
I know it.
People think I have information, I need
to share it cuz it shows that I'm in
control. I have more control than you do
cuz you don't know that. I have more
power than you do because I have
knowledge that you don't know. So I want
to tell you, I want to tell him, I want
to tell her.
But the Torah is says, "No. Macha'il
Re'eihu B'Seiser. If you share someone
else's marriage problems, you share
someone else's children's problems, you
share someone else's business problems,
that is considered Macha'il Re'eihu
B'Seiser. You are slamming him
in a hidden way, and that's the worst
you can do."
This guy, Gabriel Perez, took
information he had,
secret information that he had, and he
exploited it
in a way he wasn't supposed to.
That's what we have to learn. Don't do
that.
