Daily Chafetz Chaim – Day 254

You spot a friend's new purchase and blurt out that he paid way too much — are you helping or sinning?

Rabbi Klapper describes what happens in real life when someone who doesn't know these halachos sees a friend's new purchase and cries, you got robbed, that's the most expensive store! He imagines he's helping, but he's stumbling into rechilus and lashon hara: he doesn't know the going rate, what extras came with it, how long ago it was bought, or the real price. Worse, he can't know what his friend will do with the information — it may just breed anger and hatred toward the store owner and lead to further aveiros. So many sins can flow from a conversation under five minutes. The rule, Rabbi Klapper stresses, is never say anything negative about anybody or anything.

Internalize it by hearing it again — and again — tomorrow.

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