Day 10 of our 30 days of mindful speech for the betterment of human kind.

Today's video features Barbara Lipkin from LEA Hadassah

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Day 9 of our 30 days of mindful speech for the betterment of human kind.

Today's video features Ethan Waldman from B'nai Havurah

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Day 8 of our 30 days of mindful speech for the betterment of human kind.

Today's video features Lynn Geller from HEA

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Day 7 of our 30 days of mindful speech for the betterment of human kind.

Today's video features Irit Waldbaum from Denver JDS

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Day 6 of our 30 days of mindful speech for the betterment of human kind.

Today's video features Elisa Robyn from Shalom Park

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Day 5 of our 30 days of mindful speech for the betterment of human kind.

Today's video features Leanna Harris from Jewish Family Service

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This year in our second Jewish mindful speech campaign, we are going to focus on how we speak to people, and learn to avoid onas devarim.

Onas devarim means speaking in a way that causes discomfort to the person you’re speaking to. The discomfort could be shame, embarrassment, fear, anxiety, anger or any other unpleasant emotional reaction.

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This may sound strange, but sometimes, when two people are speaking, there are actually three people present.

The speaker.

The listener.

And the person that the two of them are talking about.

Last November, in the first Clean Speech Colorado campaign, we focused on avoiding lashon hara, loosely translated as gossip and slander about the person not in the room.

This year’s Clean Speech campaign we’ll focus on another speech topic, called onas devarim. That’s speech that causes embarrassment, pain or insult to the person you’re speaking to directly.

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The awesome power of speech is perhaps why there is so much mystical emphasis on speech in Judaism. The universe was created through speech, our humanity is defined by speech, our relationship with our Creator is built largely through speech.

As we refine our skills to replace negative words with positive words, we imbue the world around us with positivity, one word at a time.

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The Torah teaches that words are our most powerful tools for social change. Each human being is a world in and of themselves, and words can repair and destroy worlds in the blink of an eye. Our heritage has clearly defined guidelines of how to speak to each other. When we study and practice these guidelines, everything changes.

Last year's unprecedented campaign successfully brought the message of refraining from lashon hara (gossip and slander) to tens of thousands of Coloradans. This year we are pleased to present Clean Speech Colorado Volume 2: The Price of Words. It’s about building people up — rather than tearing them down — and recognizing that what we say and how we say it, can have a cost. This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate