Elections bring a flood of slander, in the news, on WhatsApp and at the Shabbos table. Is it permitted to say it, or even to listen? Rabbi Shay Tahan explains the Chofetz Chaim's rules of lashon hara and rechilus, and when speaking l'to'eles (for a constructive purpose) is allowed, with its conditions.

Rabbi Shay Tahan is the Rosh Kollel of Kollel Shaarei Ezra in Flatbush and the Rosh Beis Din of Beit Horaa Arzei Halevanon.

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Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DNKHCNnLu8