 Good day, mate. So I've noticed that there are Two types of people in the world. There are those who have contempt prior to investigation and those who don't and I've noticed with many low IQ types They tend to have this surly distrustful suspicious attitude that just kind of vibrates off them and That's understandable because if you were going through life where everyone was smarter than you You'd probably have some contempt as well And some suspicion on the other hand I noticed generally speaking high IQ types if they if they have no reason to suspect you That they tend to be quite open and trusting generally speaking but if you ever violate their trust then Then you're probably never going to get it back so Contempt prior to investigation So I used to have contempt for spirituality I always thought it was it was for losers It was for people who wanted the benefits of organized religion without doing the work That organized religion requires and without being held to the standards that any organized religion has if you're a Catholic There are certain standards if you're orthodox Jew there are standards if you're something Adventist there are certain standards and So I thought spirituality was the easy way out But then after decades and decades of practicing organized religion I noticed that I had these disabling emotional addictions that religion wasn't taking care of and I'd always had contempt for 12-step programs But when I finally realized that my own way of doing things didn't work Then I finally finally became open to Attending 12-step programs think I went to my first one something like April of 2011. So prior to that I had I don't know 15 years of kind of contempt for the theory of sex addiction Contempt for 12-step programs like admitting you're a powerless. I mean that's for losers, mate but then I Went to my first meeting. I was able to identify with something that virtually everybody who shared It resonated with me and I was changed I was affected and I realized hey This is good for me. So even if it doesn't make sense to me. I'm going to pursue it So the 12 steps don't make sense Leased upon initial inspection and the whole idea of admitting powerlessness. It doesn't make sense It seems to be against the doctrine of taking personal responsibilities So I had contempt for something that went on to save my life once I finally became open to 12-step programs so Contempt prior to investigation contempt prior to investigation almost always Seems to me in my experience comes from from people who feel insecure and So they they kind of predispose to lash out at the world To deny good things in the world They're convinced that their problems are insoluble or they're convinced that their problems are created by the government or by big tech or the banks or People who are out to to get them So this this attitude of contempt prior to investigation never Never seems to come from a healthy place and the healthiest people. I know don't exhibit it I'm thinking of an orthodox rabbi. I know is when he's asked questions about things. He doesn't know He says I don't know it's easy for him to say I don't know so I think the harder It is for a person to admit that they don't know something The more that indicates a deep-seated insecurity a lack of ease with themselves Which will then translate into how they communicate with others if you're not at ease with yourself Other people are not going to feel at ease around you and some contempt prior to investigation Is someone who's insecure ill at ease at the world and needs to impose certain? Structures on reality that just don't match up with reality So it's always been one of the major tells in in my YouTube discussions when I hear someone Offering opinions on a book that haven't read. I know I'm dealing with someone who's insecure and has some Some dangerously self-destructive tendencies to to express contempt for a book you haven't read or for a movie You haven't seen or a TV show you haven't watched or an essay that you haven't read Perhaps on the basis of something you've heard about it indicates that You're not at ease with reality You're not at ease with yourself. You're not at ease with reality You're not at ease with the universe. You're not at ease with your own limitations, and you don't have an accurate sense of self so Usually to be an effective radio host you have to project this like Tremendous confidence you have to have a voice that Comes through the radio and commands attention generally speaking voice that says I don't know It's not going to Command attention, but that's based on Falseness right if you are confidently stating opinions on topics. You don't know much about Then you're fundamentally living a lie. So I think that's why many talk show hosts are very unhappy people While there are some talk shows hosts who are a happy people like a Dennis Prager He's pretty much the same on the air as he is off the air So I went to the same synagogue as Prager for about four years So the Dennis Prager you here on the radio. That's pretty much the Dennis Prager that you would interact with in real life So he's a happy guy on the air is a happy guy off the air because he's fundamentally the same person but if you're Confidently proclaiming things you don't know much about That that may be good for your career as a talk show host, but you're probably going to feel pretty hollow inside. I Don't know rush Limbaugh. Well, but it seems he doesn't have many friends and he's had a Difficulty sustaining relationships. What is he on his fifth marriage by now? so A great deal of talk show host maybe even a majority even of the successful ones They're not fundamentally at ease with themselves or with other people. They're kind of awkward to be around Kind of the very opposite of Dennis Prager is very easy to be around. He's naturally an outgoing bloke People, you know really enjoy his company Probably is no one that I hear people saying I'd love to have lunch with you know Dennis Prager Anyone more than Dennis Prager because he's genuine. That's who he is and another symptom of Contempt prior to investigation. It usually means that you don't have an accurate sense of reality accurate sense of your own strengths and weaknesses, so What comes with having an accurate sense of reality is you recognize that there are things that you don't do well so I started blogging July 3 1997 and when I'd run into technical problems I banged my head against the wall. I had this had all this fear about technology and That made it difficult for me to learn new technology and to solve computer problems So fairly quickly I learned it was a much better use of my time and money if I simply had people on Call who I could pay 50 60 a hundred dollars an hour to help me out with a technological problem So coming to that reality. Hey, I'm not good with technology It's better for me to outsource it So that helped also getting an accountant So I've spent about four hundred dollars a year to an accountant who saves me that many times over in the deductions So outsourcing my taxes to an accountant I think most people benefit by having an accountant do that So when I prepare my taxes usually means about an hour possibly two hours of work I write down numbers. I gather documents and I send them to my accountant She comes back to me with some questions. I sign the forms and I'm done in maybe two or three hours max So because I have a accurate sense of myself that I'm not really the person who you want checking the The engines before the plane takes off. I'm able to make my life a lot easier by recognizing. Okay. I need to outsource computer help I need to outsource my accounting help And then other people benefit by outsourcing say marketing or web design, so fiverr There's a website fiverr FIVERr where you can outsource logo design So I outsource on defigo fiverr my logo design for my YouTube channel various WordPress problems that came up for me. I just outsourced it to fiverr so many people find that That enhances their life if they can outsource things that they don't do well and That depends upon kind of having an accurate sense of yourself an accurate sense of of reality and Realizing that you don't know at all What say you about patriotic alternative dropping millennial words, mr. Ford. Oh, I Find it hilarious The way that Mark let would talk about you know keeping patriotic alternative a safe space And he sounded just like an HR manager or a politician at the same time He says it is favorite favorite authors or Adolf Hitler George Lincoln Rockwell and David Duke Okay, so you are consciously patenting yourself as a Nazi party in England So I'm not going to make any moral argument against patenting yourself as a neo-nazi party But if you're going to do that in the Anglo world, you're asking for nothing but trouble You can have no influence and people are going to loathe you So the idea that a Nazi party would drop millennial woes Being bad optics is hilarious This is the guy who says is three favorite authors or Adolf Hitler George Lincoln Rockwell and David Duke And he's saying that in an Anglo country England so So you're already intent on self-marginalizing yourself. He already had his own Incident where he was severely reprimanded by the British National Party apparently for conduct and becoming a neo-nazi Having underage girls in his room back in in 2006. So it's just it's just funny to see see the piety Of his response And it was funny also to read the piety of millennial woes as Fairwell message where he talks about I know many of you look up to me Really, I mean, I'm sure there are a lot of people who enjoy millennial woes. This is not a diss of millennial woes I didn't expect people to look up to me But Who in their right mind would look up to millennial woes? He's never hold a job in his life He's lived off the doll all his life and begging for donations I It's just stunning to me that he would he would think he has all these people who are looking up to him And it was stunning to me that millennial woes thought his channel was really all about self-improvement Millennial woes the extent that he was powerful and what he did it was because he admitted he was a degenerate He admitted that he wasn't really capable of navigating life so he kind of retreated to the to the basement and Spent all his time online, you know exchanging Naked pictures with people and engaging in degenerate activities like it was his brutal honesty that made him Vulnerable and made him relatable for many people But I don't think people were putting him on a pedestal and so when he titled his farewell note Dear friends and fans Just it just seemed delusional He was powerful when he was vulnerable, but when he when he turns pompous then it loses his power And his YouTube messages he received numerous thankful messages and gratitude in response to his announcement sure people appreciated his vulnerability and People appreciated his brutal honesty When he admitted yeah, I'm a degenerate then he said it takes a degenerate to respect tradition I don't think anyone in his right mind wanted to emulate millennial woes like nobody wants to take on that kind of life Would want their sons to take on that kind of life would want their daughters Caught in an intimate Relationship with with millennial woes no one wants that but what what people do respect is his vulnerability and his honesty and that came from You know recognizing reality recognizing his own strong points and weak points So yesterday I talked about Gossip so it's it's one of those things again contempt prior to investigation people say they have contempt for gossip And we shouldn't talk about millennial woes. We shouldn't kick him when he's down My point is that if you're interested in people you talk about them We only talk about people who matter to us Okay, so people who particularly relate to The problems that millennial woes were sharing who relate to his his vulnerability and have similar struggles They're gonna form a very close almost protective bond With with millennial woes and he established that because of his honesty when you speak honestly When you're vulnerable, it feels like very molecules of the air around you change and That enables you to form Intense bonds with people even with people you've you've never met So people who have contempt for gossip again, I think it's contempt prior to investigation People never gossip about those who don't matter to them that you gossip about someone indicates that they matter to you People talk about millennial woes this week means that he matters to them that he's formed a connection to them and so people may joke about it because There's not this I don't think that is there any revelation about millennial woes that could come out that would be more damaging Than things he's already freely admitted Right, just on the basis of things. He is freely admitted He is not someone with a reputation to lose Okay, if you simply take excerpts of things that he said publicly for public consumption Then there's no longer a reputation that can be can be solid He's already trashed his reputation in in the eyes of normies And so I just find it hard to believe that there any revelations that could come out that could damage him or that Haven't read every pole thread about millennial woes, but I don't think that That people having a laugh about about his troubles can really damage him because there's really nothing that anyone can say about Millennial woes that is harsher than what he's already said. So in that sense, he's insulated himself from pain Something that a lot of screwed up people do is that they're very upfront about their weaknesses or vulnerabilities So thereby they remove your incentive to Say anything that could hurt them. They kind of reduce their vulnerability by being so open about Their shortcomings and that that reduces your incentive to go go back on them Okay, I'm looking at Article I put together on gossip a couple of decades ago from the New Republic William Powers wrote in 1997 undergirding or tabloid Journalism is a rigid code of right and wrong which people are held to very particular standards of behavior So it may be the closest we have today to a universal populist ethos Ethos of the tabloids So all the ancient social norms are honored thou shalt not kill. I shall not rape I shall not steal that I shall not lie that I shall not commit adultery But in in the tabloids reckoning of the world and this is also true for 4chan and Kiwi farms There are two sins in particular that have special importance pride and hypocrisy So what do what the Kiwi farm threads have in common? They seize on people who seem out of touch with reality seemed to have an exaggerated sense of their own importance So almost everyone Who Goes online and shares their opinions like I do they quickly develop an exaggerated sense of their own importance because they they have people who listen to them and therefore they think they have more more power or more influence more wisdom than they actually have they also Share things that they shouldn't share that they wouldn't share if they were face-to-face with people and getting Visual cues that we do in everyday conversation. So people doing what I'm doing right now very quickly spin out of control lose an appropriate sense of reality and And get into a lot of trouble but the the two The two main troubles that people get into who share their lives online The troubles of pride and hypocrisy Okay, if you have an exaggerated sense of your own importance if you have an exaggerated sense of your own influence if You have a grandiosity about you that's out of touch with reality If you have an impetuosity if you don't have sufficient filters Okay, we often do things online that we would not do in real life because online We can just do them with a click or here on live streaming so I can just say anything that comes to my head If I don't have an appropriate filter, I'm going to get into a great deal of trouble So people are much more impulsive online You have a few more miles on the clock and not just honey assort look so anyway anyone who does what I'm doing if you demonstrate excessive pride like excessive self-importance and Hypocrisy then people are gonna seize on that and they're just gonna beat you Like a bitch. I'm just gonna beat you down so Any wet when woes is strong is when he's vulnerable and He shares from his vulnerable state when he becomes a Target is when it when he becomes pompous and loses touch with his his proper place in reality So think about the Jamba day Ramsey case Tabloid storyline is really about two parents who exploited their daughter's beauty to feed their own pride and As for the OJ Simpson Story, it's not just about race. It was about a celebrity. You thought he was above the law So it nothing raises tabloid fury or Kiwi farms fury or Paul fury more than Spectacle of some e-celeb getting away with something or getting above himself So to the extent that woes he is attracting any any fury. It's the extent that people feel that he has gotten away from himself or above himself So in the pages of National Inquirer drug abuse infidelity and myriad other wrongs are often forgiven But if you are caught pretending to be something that you're not if you're caught being too big for your britches They'll flay you right we've all we've all done questionable things, but if you pretend to be something you're not and so Millennial woes is farewell announcement indicated a person lost lost touch with who he really is lost touch with his own relative Importance that he was some some major figure in nationalism went What he is is what he's often said at his best when he's honest that he's incredibly degenerate guy he's never held a job in his life and Who's failing with reality and is retreated to this online war where he can be When he can where he can be somebody Okay, so Vivo says let's not forget the patriotic alternative has banned him after the two matriarchs Loretty and Deion passed judgment on him and Mark let is a white knight of the second order So I'm not really up to date on everything that woes you may have done But it's obvious from from the things he shared on his videos that he's a self self announced degenerate who You know sends sends dick pics to two women who don't want them sometimes and who solicits them and You know has has porn addiction and All the other problems that go along with someone who's essentially shut in never held a job and It's not really functional in the real world And his power comes from his honesty So we tend to look at movie stars and e celebs and famous people with kind of one-eyed Narrate where we're ever vigilant for ferniness That's what we don't like when people pretend to be something that they're not Once they do that then we swiftly Gleefully cut them down and we can be ruthless. We can be ugly. We can be cruel, but it's also incredibly honest There's a lot of honesty on fortune Paul and on Kiwi Farms So the battle against gossip It's been a long and unsuccessful one people have always gossip people always gossip because if you Care about someone you'll talk about them and if you don't talk about them, it means you don't care about them So who's talking about millennial woes now people who care about him people to whom he matters? so we want Well, we all want a good reputation Right, that's that's kind of our power Is that our reputation goes goes before us? But a reputation does not belong to us a reputation belongs in the minds of other people we can't control or legislate our reputation Some people may think they can pass laws and launch lawsuits to protect their reputation But reputation belongs to other people's minds. We can't control what goes on in other people's minds Now choices we make words we say actions we do will affect how other people perceive us But we we have no power over other people's perceptions of us so Would you want someone passing around inaccurate or false rumors about yourself? Of course not so so the golden rule with talking about other people is Do unto others as you would have them do to you So we should be conscious of what we say about other people and if you pass along inaccurate rumors If I pass along inaccurate rumors, it's my reputation that suffers So that's why we have incentives not to pass along Inaccurate rumors because then we lose credibility in the eyes of other people So the most famous rabbi in the Jewish tradition who spoke about Gossip was named Khofetz Chaim. That's his name of his most famous book so in the Jewish tradition leading rabbis have become known by their most famous books so for This rabbi became known as the Khofetz Chaim It means Who desires life he who keeps his tongue from evil? and If I was to abide By all the strictures that he wrote about regarding gossip I'd not be able to do these live streams. I'd not be able to blog. I'd not be able to work as a journalist nobody would journalism would be impossible live streams would be impossible but the Jewish teachings on Forbidden speech are far more complex than what the Khofetz Chaim codified. So in Jewish texts such as the Bible and the Talmud is filled with examples of Jewish and non-Jewish leaders being held accountable for their behavior and being caught out for their bad behavior at the problem with many of the Reflexive religious and traditional teachings about gossip is that they focus on the harm done to specific individuals who are gossiped about And they ignore the benefit that was widely shared among people gaining information from the benefit So if you know someone has a promiscuous sex life and they have incurable genital warts then by warning other people sure you're You're harming the guy with the warts, but you're saving other people from harm If you know that someone is a philanderer, or if you know that someone's dishonest in business, or if you know someone's an alcoholic If you know someone's unreliable sneaky shifty Then if you let unsuspecting people know this information you are helping them and protecting them against those who could be dangerous to them This is how the Khofetz Chaim was Was described by his son father had no personal relationships with anyone all the days of his life So this rabbi who passed all these very strict rules about gossip He didn't have any anybody who mattered to him. That's why he wasn't interested in gossiping about anyone Though people who behave in an anti-social manner extreme anti-social manner such as passing on STDs cheating people in business Miss using donations Thank you, sir. Vivo for all your good work here so After after a certain degree of anti-social behavior you lose the right to be protected by Prohibitions against gossip so individuals who are predators financially sexually lose that right George Will wrote in a book review Yeah drinking juice right out. It's not juice. It's crystal light. There's no sugar in it It's I think orange sunshine or something sugar-free is so delicious Mmm, it tastes tastes better than real orange juice And it's good for my blood sugar the George Will write in the New York Times in 2006 here So he's writing a book review about the making of the American conservative mind national review in its times It's a history of national review by Jeffrey Hart Professor late professor I think I interviewed him on my blog about 15 years ago and George Will writes his book is a gossipy memoir leavened by a quick Skimming of 50 years of political history. I confess he says to a fondness for gossip Which is a conservative genre? Gossips do not want to change the world. They want to enjoy it and Mickey Kals argues that reporting on the private lives of politicians gets people more interested in politics He writes July 9 2007 on slate at least mayor faces some New York Tabloid style questioning at a news conference the LA Times reporter He didn't get the story doesn't know quite what to make of this new state of affairs. I detect a mild sneering tone Luke Ford sees a beautiful synchronicity so I Broke the story about the mayor of Los Angeles is his marriage was was over and Became the top story in California in 2007 Antonio Villarigosa. He was having an affair with a Spanish language TV news reporter anchor who sometimes Reported and read stories about him on air He was having an affair with her Okay, James LeFond was the guest in latest myth the 20th century. They talked about coronavirus and Sparta versus Athens. Okay, I Think Angelina's might be getting interested in local politics for once which will give us better government in the long run Special interests have less power when the people are paying attention Well, what would happen if all the politicians in power are no longer womanizers? That's not a serious possibility So whoever you're sleeping with that's gonna have a profound influence on you And if you're in a public position then the public has a right to know that they will be better informed If they know who you're sleeping with Because whoever we're sleeping with is going to have a profound effect on us Now the tabloid media multiplies and amplifies The many voices of viewpoints and contemporary culture giving reign to many that typically excluded the shrill and evasive Response to tabloid media from respectable journalism and other elite social quarters Indicates the extent to which tabloid popularity threatens officialdom's powers to regulate the discourse This academic Kevin Glenn series journalism is far more concerned with controlling organizing and Ordering the hierarchy of voices It admits into its discourse and his tabloid news whose contents are driven by ratings and circulation Liz Smith says that gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin gown Camille Puglia Says how fictionalized as they are the tabloids with their twin themes of sex of violence tell the pagan truth about life Okay, so friends is throwing down a link here Okay, he's got Got a link here to YouTuber named false British liberalism and Anglo empiricism are the foundations of scientific racialism So is he saying this is a bad thing? Jack Schaefer writes for Slate About a public editor column by the New York Times is Clark Hoyt This is in August 2007 one of the flaws in Hoyt's thinking meaning the New York Times thinking It's his belief that one's reputation is a possession like a car or a tennis racket It's one's reputation actually resides in the minds of others Person can have as many reputations as people who know him or know of him Positing that the top link in a Google search of a name equals somebody's reputation is silly and Hoyt's column only encourages that notion Whatever their shortcoming search engines are a million times superior to human memory which they are rapidly replacing Web also offers those wounded a variety of ways to manage their reputations and mitigate the offenses of journalists By exaggerating the power of journalists and of Google to determine reputation Hoyt's column encourages people to think of themselves as techno pawns I'm all forgetting journalists to correct meaningful errors of fact But if you want to secure a better reputation than the one that Google currently spits out get busy and build it yourself Okay, so the Huffett's high and was a European traditional Orthodox rabbi lived at the from 1838 to 1933 his real name was Israel Mayor Kagan Pupko It's popularly known as the Huffett's Hyam Okay, so Falsz is arguing against the idea that racism is German. Yeah racism is a universal human trait He was an influential Lithuanian Jewish rabbi of the Muslim movement, which is self-improvement movement a holocaust meaning a decider of Jewish law and An ethicist whose works continue to be widely influential in Jewish life His most famous book is the Huffett's Hyam, which means desiring life and it is against gossip So at a rabbinic meeting in 1910 Rabbi Mayor Simke DaVinsk attacked the Huffett's Hyam Various rabbis made fun of the book Huffett's Hyam Because what he was doing was turning trying to turn stories a garter into halacha law My husband ish said that the Huffett's Hyam just didn't know what he was talking about in this law So the Huffett's Hyam created halacha Jewish law out of Musa ethical exhortations frequently extreme. He took agatex stories Turned them into halacha law. He took broad ethical statements and turned them into Jewish law. I Don't know anyone Today they'd have the courage to say these criticisms the Huffett's Hyam He's become much more influential after his death So according to the Huffett's Hyam this leading rabbi no gossip essentially is permitted even between husband and wife many other rabbis thought differently Today the Huffett's Hyam in Munch of orthodox life is the last word in these matters Though many rabbis such as Rav Shlomo Zalman al-Bak would have the temerity to tell you Shiva students that they Don't need to listen to the Huffett's Hyam He said that in a Haredi publication, but they removed it because they're too too afraid What a MRE's let me look up and my meal replacement Ready-tweet food, so I'm sure there are some MRE's that are kosher. I just look up MRE kosher Yeah, there are military kosher meals. There are plenty of MRE's that are kosher according to rabbi Jacob Emden You could say Lashon Hara gossip about anyone who is your enemy So I guess this is a justification for the Lashon Hara that He tells in his own book so Jacob Emden lived 1697 to 1776 he wrote a memoir that has never been published in English because it'd be so scandalous he talks about Wrestling with his sexual desires and all sorts of revelations that Rabbis traditionally don't make so there's never been the the Jewish equivalent of Augustine's confessions Rabbis typically don't reveal scandalous things about themselves unlike many Christian clergy There are all sorts of herterium permissions for Lashon Hara The Mere rabbi says that if you say it publicly it is not Lashon Hara If you read the correspondence of great rabbis it almost always Violates Judaism's laws of Lashon Hara Now these rabbis don't believe they're violating Lashon Hara. They believe the target of their enmity deserves it If their target does bad things then they deserve to be exposed Now Mark Shapiro says this is a little depressing for many of these rabbis It's just a personal weakness that they're venting and none of them would admit it They just say that they are exposing hypocrites as the Talmud commands So that's an excellent essay that came out about a decade ago called from principles to rules and from Musa to Halacha Well Hafez Haim's rulings on libel and gossip So in the year 1873 When the Hafez Haim had finished writing his book Hafez Haim on libel and gossip he wished to publish it with a rabbinical endorsements as was customary since he also wanted to distribute the book among the Hasidim He was a Lithuanian Litfak rabbi He wished to get an endorsement from one of the prominent Hasidic masters of that time. He therefore sent an emissary to the Rebbe of Alexander You can call me the Punisher Rebbe As well as to a few prominent rabbis to give them a copy of the new book and to ask for their endorsements The emissary reached The Polish Rebbe and requested his endorsement. What is the book about asked the Rebbe about the laws of libel? He replied why do we need a book on the laws of libel the Rebbe continued Emissary the book teaches that one may not hurt his neighbor even by speech So this rabbi responded to hurt one's neighbor one does not need a tongue or speech It is enough to make a He made a slightly dismissive gesture with his hand Seeing the Rebbe refused to give him the desired endorsement the emissary continued on to the other personalities all of whom complied willingly When he came back to the Hafetz Chaim The emissary reported that all the referees gave him their endorsements except for the Rebbe of Alexander The Rebbe of Alexander the Hafetz Chaim responded Made a slight dismissive gesture with his hand The emissary told him about his meeting with the Rebbe and the content of their conversation Hearing that the Hafetz Chaim hurried hurried to add an article to the book stating There's no difference between one who speaks libel about another person explicitly One who does it by intimation in any case that is considered libel All right, so what's going on in the chat here? I went to Wendy's yesterday. They were not selling double patty burgers I guess I'm in pretty good shape as a vegetarian now. I wish I was not a vegetarian But I was raised that way and it's become a habit And so unfortunately Fortunately, it's a habit. It's a hard habit to break and I've never eaten meat or fish. So at age 53 It would be it would be a very big change So back to Benjamin Brown's article here when the Rebbe of Alexander insinuated that there was no need for a book That articulates the laws of libel meant there would be better to leave this topic in the realm of principles This case the principle that one may not hurt his neighbor even by speech In the example that he gave he wanted to intimate that one cannot cover all the possible causes of libel in speech Is it that meat discuss you? Yeah, it's a natural revulsion because I've never had it Ideally, I wish that I could eat meat. I think vegetarian sucks it it Tends to lead to depression all sorts of dysfunction to morbidity To various mental illnesses. I think it probably reduces your IQ we're obviously By the shape of our teeth. We were born to eat meat. We evolved to eat meat And it's healthier to eat meat than than to be a vegetarian Just look at the work of Nathan Coffness on this topic And that the formulation of laws would needlessly diminish the force of the principle Ah, so you were born and raised vegetarian, but you went bad and you didn't go bad in your 20s You went healthy in your 20s. Were you raised a seventh day Adventist? Yeah, vegetarians generally seem sickly. Absolutely. It's an unhealthy way to live Hafez Hayem's response represents the opposite tendency thought that the norms for libel should be defined as all-inclusive rules When he was confronted with a case that the existing rules did not cover he sort of to articulate it too The traditional rule-centered genre and Jewish tradition is halakha. That means law While the principle-centered one is known as musa self-improvement literature Hafez Hayem's literary enterprise in this branch Should be therefore be considered as the halakhaization of musa A legalization of ethics So it was the Hafez Hayem who transformed musa or agarita stories into halakha law In classical Jewish literature, there is only minimal reference if at all to the distinction between musa and halakha But in past few centuries, we get much more talk about the distinction So a halakha is morality of duty and musa means a morality of aspiration So apart from duties to inspire Rabbi Liechtenstein included in the category musa norms, which are not binding Things like going beyond the letter of the law Piety and other categories. So these norms are closer to principles than to rules A halakha cuts to the minimum that the servant of God is required to do In order to fulfill his obligation to his creator the musa literature seeks not the minimum but the maximum The path by which man will reach the zenith of religious life approaching and clinging to God Now that that open cupboard door behind me is bothering me I know you expect a certain quality of presentation here I don't want to let you down Okay, I want to know um press one in the chat if you're religious Press two in the chat if you're Jewish press three if you're christian Press four if you're an atheist Press five if you're secular Press six if you're muslim Press seven if you're gay Press eight if you're transgender Even if the jewish thinkers of all generations gave little attention to the theoretical question of the distinction between halakha and musa The living jewish tradition knew well how to distinguish between them So every bookseller of religious literature would put the halakha books in one section Okay, five is atheist. Uh, what's three christian? Okay four four Four five is secular four is atheist. Oh, we got rushden blessings blessings rustin and uh And bernard is secular, but he's on the road to Damascus He's about to have like a spiritual awakening from watching these live streams But it'd be funny if a jew helped to bring bernard to christ Okay So we got two christians Uh one atheist One secular person in the chat Blessings my my non-denominational blessing Goes out to you Okay, so in the jewish tradition the prohibition against gossip developed as musa meaning exhortation So the prohibition You should not go about as a tail bearer among your people which is leviticus chapter 19 verse 16 was clearly considered a binding norm But it was conceived throughout the generations as a duty to aspire to Not as a duty that can be articulated in concrete actions and In the mishnah, so do you all know what the mishnah is the mishnah is the oral law So in traditional Judaism, there's a belief that That uh, god gave moses a written Torah meaning the five books of moses the pentateuch and an oral Torah Which was put into final form in year 200 of the common era as the mishnah So in the mishnah, we find the term lashan hara only once And that is in a negotic context. So a garter refers to stories The term motsi shamrah, which refers to sulling a person's reputation appears several times And in halakit context legal contexts, but only in the sense of ascribing improper sexual behavior to a woman So the language of the sages clearly follows the language of the Torah And this refers to the limited sense that the term lashan hara had in the world Buddy you're a christian Okay, so for the christians press one if you're a protestant press two if you're a catholic and press three if you're an orthodox So for the sages the terms of shan hara moses shamrah had a much more limited meaning than they did To mymonides and his followers so Mymonides was one of the first People who compiled a code of jewish law He lived in the 12th century So for the for the deciders of of jewish law Like mymonides They They used lashan hara to any untrue statement So the term rechel meaning gossip or tail-bearing appears in the mission only once in the sense of revealing a secret But it's not decisive Sages the Talmud mentioned these terms more frequently, but their references are short and offhand So they weren't using it within standard halakic discourse The only place in the entire Talmud where the sages deal with the topic at length that's in arachn 15b to 16a we find both halakic and agatek sayings integrated With the agata the stories in the clear majority The two main halakic sayings are permissions Why do I use pc terms such as ce and bce? Because I don't if if I said ad I'm saying we're living in the year of our lord. Why would I use a christian term? Okay, anodomino ad means the year of our lord We're living in 2020. I don't believe we're living in the year of our lord If I believe we were living in the year of our lord, I'd be a christian, but I'm not a christian so I'm I'm not going to use christian terminology I I wouldn't say, you know 500 bc because that means before christ I don't believe that jesus was the christ if I believe that jesus was the christ. I'd be a christian So it'd be weird for me to say bc or ad When I don't believe in their validity so academics tend to use bce and ce With the notion that religion does not belong in dating So yeah, it would be weird if I if I said, yeah, this is 2020 ad the year of our lord. He's not my lord If he was my lord, then I'd be a christian so Judaism does not start deriving laws about proper speech until recently so Any Jewish texts I've read in the last 15 years of reading use bc ad was a history of yiddish Where the author expressed a dim view of Judaism. So yeah, overwhelmingly academic texts use ce and bce And just like jews don't refer to the hebrew bible as the or testament Generally speaking if I believe the hebrew bible was the or testament I'd be a christian But I'm not a christian so The presence of an or testament Presupposes the existence of a new testament and as a jew I obviously do not believe that there is a new testament from god I believe that christians believe there is a new testament so for the town mutic rabbis Understood that Speech was not an area appropriate for specific articulated rules or for analytical discourse And the medieval authorities followed the same path except for one rabbi isaac al-fazi the riff What makes the era common? Okay? Common era Okay Common era is one of the notation systems of the world's most widely used calendar era bce before the common era Or before the current era is the era before ce the current era They are alternatives to the dianesian bc and ad system Yeah, said old testament front of a jewish girl. She required like she'd been stung by a wasp. Yeah To to a jew typical jew they are came Oh frequently requires particularly if they have a A jewish upbringing if they went to jewish schools Okay, the term Common era stretches back to 1615 It can be found in english as early as 1708 it became more widely used in the mid 19th century Wow, she was pretty strange. She wanted the messiah to come so she could be appointed high priestess and save the world Why why do you think that's so weird? Okay, so common era became widely used in the mid 19th century by jewish religious scholars In the late 20th century the use of use of ce and bce was popularized in academic and scientific Publications as a culturally neutral term It was also used by some authors and publishers who wished to emphasize sensitivity to non-christians by not explicitly Referencing jesus as christ and lord Okay, but there is still disagreement over this some style guides prefer or mandate its use Style guide for the episcopal diocese Says that bce and ce should be used The use of bce and ce in textbooks has been growing over the past two decades Some publications have moved over to it exclusively Such as the word almanac in the norton anthology of english literature I've heard some has said him went right saint yeah, so so, yeah traditional jews don't May not like to write a saint because it's so christian It's a way to erase christianity from the public square. Yeah, I guess that that is true it is removing removing christian symbols from how we talk about history Absolutely absolutely right there rustin in 2002 an advisory panel for the religious education syllabus for england wales recommended introducing bce and ce dates to schools bce and ce is used by the college board in its history tests Is there anything in orthodox jewish teaching about a high priestess not of which i'm aware In 2011 media reports suggested that bc ad notation australian school textbooks would be replaced by bce ce It became national news drew opposition from some politicians and church leaders And bc ad notation remained So this is interesting the canadian museum of civilization They switched for a while to bce ce, but they decided to change back to bc ad In material intended for the public while retaining bce and ce in an academic context So the use of ce and jewish scholarship was historically motivated by the desire to avoid the implicit our lord in the ad So proponents of the common era notation assert that the use of bce and ce Show sensitivity to those who use the same year numbering system as the one that originated with christians But who not themselves christian? christian calendar no longer belongs exclusively to christians as the united nation secretary general People of all faiths have taken to using it simply as a matter of convenience There is so much interaction between people of different faiths and cultures and different civilizations that some shared way of reckoning time is a necessity So the christian era has become the common era So adena berkowitz when arguing at the supreme court opted to use bce and ce Because given the multi-cultural society that we live in the traditional jewish designations bce and ce cast a wider net of inclusion Some oppose the common era notation for explicitly religious reasons Many christians are offended by the removal of the reference to him in era notation So some christians argue that the use of bce ce is a return to the most bigoted christian colonialism toward non-christians They do not necessarily consider the time period following the beginning of the calendar to be a common era and an english language expert Said if we do cast aside the ad bc convention Perhaps we ought to cast aside as well the conventional numbering system That is the method of numbering years itself given its christian basis So it was a student's use of bce and ce Inspired by its use within wikipedia Which prompted the teacher and politician andrew schlafly to far found conservopedia A cultural conservative wiki It mandates that users must always use bc ad So andrew schlafly He is the son of conservative activists and lawyer phyllis schlafly Anyone watching mrs america on fox fx? It's pretty good Back to my fascinating discussion on Judaism's approach to laws of gossip okay, so Rabbi isaac al-fazi the reef He extracted from the jewish tradition Some some principles about gossip And then he includes them in his legal summary So the inclusion of these sayings Within a legal work Constitutes a clear declaration that the author sees them as part and parcel of the halakha So it's like allowing some lady standing in a harbor holding up poetry to be the basis for your immigration policy That's what happens when you try to set jewish law according to stories and poetry The rift however was probably the last major halakha Meaning master of jewish law who viewed the prohibition against libel in this way So if we rely on the conventional classification of boxers halakik or mosa the subject found its place as mosa My monodin's included it in his halakik code the mishnatura He wrote extensively about its severity, but only in a mosa context so my monodin's regarded Judaism's teachings against gossip as a principle and did not Turn it into a series of specific rules So he considers it perhaps more of a morality of aspiration rather than a morality of duty So in the post my monodin literature so From the 13th century on the boundary between halakha and mosa crystallizes And the classification of libel as part of mosa is strengthened The authors of the tour and the shukhan or ruk do not allocate any room in their comprehensive halakik works to the issue of libel so I'm saying all this because jews know absolutely nothing about Judaism when you say something that they don't like They'll often say oh, that's lishan hara now. They know absolutely nothing about Judaism But somehow they've heard that you should never say anything bad about anyone So then they'll come oh, that's lishan hara even non-jews who know a little bit about Judaism will say Oh, isn't that covered by the teachings against lishan hara? And I'll say well lishan hara is not in the shukhan or ruk to be an orthodox jew means that you are You're obliged to follow The teachings of the shukhan or ruk Which is a 15th century compendium of jewish law And the shukhan or ruk does not include laws against lishan hara It's also a linguistic indicator the talmudic sages and the medieval rabbis did not perceive libel as a halakik prohibition There is a halakik category habitual center with regard to one matter That relates to a person repeatedly violates one particular prohibition And there are clear halakik sanctions that are imposed on individuals who fall into that category among them the loss of legal credibility Now this category is used only with regard to violations of halakha not with regard to violations of mosa, which is a duty of aspiration So this was the face of the prohibition against libel in the jewish tradition until the time of the chafetz haim But the hafetz haim did not initiate the halakikization Of libel ex nihilo. He was preceded by a few important halakis And noticed the lack of laws of virtues in the shukhan or ruk and came in to fill the gap But the hafetz haim was the most famous to do this An approach closer to that of the hafetz haim is demonstrated in a forgotten mosa bok that was published 15 years before hafetz haim But it was probably not known to the hafetz haim So until the 17th century the laws of libel were classified clearly as part of mosa meaning duties of aspiration rather than duties of obligation not of halakha Which refers to duties of obligation jewish law The only possible exception was the rift lived around 9th century 10th century and his influence was tiny So from 17th century on a few steps were made towards the halakikization Of some mosa norms among them the prohibition against libel, but these were minor Did not change the normative situation the significant turning point That direction was made by the chafetz haim who composed a shukhan or ruk of libel and tailbearing So for this purpose the hafetz haim needed to develop relatively novel tools And I think that would do it for me for now. 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