P’nimiyut

Conscious Speech | Day 22 : Tools Without Flaw 23.01.2026 3:53 ↓

The best craftsman cannot perform his task properly if tools are flawed and of poor quality.

Conscious Speech | Day 21 : Seeming Denial 22.01.2026 3:38 ↓

The gossiper looks over his shoulder to make sure that his target is not listening. But why isn’t he worried that Hashem is listening?!

Conscious Speech | Day 20 : The Shechinah Departs 21.01.2026 4:50 ↓

Jerusalem was destroyed because of the gossipers who caused baseless hatred to reign.

Conscious Speech | Day 19 : Words of Defeat 19.01.2026 3:14 ↓

The exceptional Torah knowledge of the children in Shaul’s generation could not gain his armies victory in battle — such is the power of loshon hara.

Conscious Speech | Day 18 : A Triple Tragedy 19.01.2026 4:17 ↓

One who speaks loshon hara destroys three people: the subject of his evil words, his listener and himself.

Conscious Speech | Day 17 : Forfeiting Eternity 18.01.2026 4:46 ↓

The way to ensure ourselves of eternal reward for all our good deeds is by avoiding loshon hara.

Conscious Speech | Day 16 : Man’s Superiority 16.01.2026 3:39 ↓

Man is superior to other creatures only if he uses his power of speech in a constructive manner.

Conscious Speech | Day 15 : A Dreadful Scenario 16.01.2026 4:15 ↓

Those who refrain from speaking ill of others can rest assured that their entreaties carry great weight in Heaven.

Conscious Speech | Day 14 : Silencing the Accuser 15.01.2026 3:43 ↓

Middah k’neged middah (measure for measure) is the rule of Heaven in all instances.

Conscious Speech | Day 13 : Awakening the Accuser 14.01.2026 7:09 ↓

Those who speak loshon hara cause the Accuser to speak against the Jewish people.

Conscious Speech | Day 12 : Measure for Measure 13.01.2026 4:38 ↓

Hashem acts towards us in the way that we act toward others.

Conscious Speech | Day 11 : Equal to All 12.01.2026 4:14 ↓

The antithesis of Torah study, the greatest of all mitzvot, is loshon hara.

Conscious Speech | Day 10 : Key to Spiritual Success 11.01.2026 5:17 ↓

A person who scrupulously refrains from hurting other through words will surely not to so through action.

Conscious Speech | Day 9 : Do Whatever You Can (Part 2) 09.01.2026 5:13 ↓

If one feels that he cannot fulfill all the fine points of a given mitzvah, nevertheless, he should strive to fulfill it to the best of his ability. (In the recording, we are January 9, 2026 (not 2025))

Conscious Speech | Day 8 : Do Whatever You Can (Part 1) 09.01.2026 4:10 ↓

You stumbled this morning and spoke the forbidden? Then strengthen yourself once more, and succeed in the afternoon.

Conscious Speech | Day 7 : Breaking Bad Habits 08.01.2026 3:44 ↓

The longer one persists in guarding his tongue, the easier it becomes.

Conscious Speech | Day 6 : Beyond Comprehension 06.01.2026 4:11 ↓

For each moment that a person refrains from speaking the forbidden, he merits a hidden light that no angel can fathom.

Conscious Speech | Day 5 : Claims and Counter-Claims 05.01.2026 4:54 ↓

The quality of shmiras haloshon (guarding the tongue) is within everyone’s reach.

Conscious Speech | Day 4 : The Imperative of Halachic Study 04.01.2026 4:40 ↓

If a person is not knowledgeable of the laws of a given prohibition, then no amount of mussar will help him.

Conscious Speech | Day 3 : Purpose of this volume 04.01.2026 4:10 ↓

It is Satan’s desire that we speak loshon hora so that our prayers will be rejected Above.

Conscious Speech | Day 2 : The Essential Quality 02.01.2026 4:21 ↓

It is the power of speech which defines man’s essence and distinguishes him from other creatures.

Conscious Speech | Day 1 : Food for the soul 01.01.2026 4:58 ↓

Doing a mitzvah in this world causes a spiritual light to rest upon one’s soul; it is from this light that the soul draws eternal vitality.