Good morning, everyone, good evening, good afternoon, wherever you are, and welcome to this week's

weekly energy boost. My name is Elie Chava, and I'm here with David, and we are talking about how evil speech

shortens one's life.

And that, obviously, pretty extreme statement.

But if you've been listening for any period of time, you know that episode after episode,

we go back to the power of words, and our listeners have been asking us to break down in detail

what really is the problem and how to be more mindful of the energy that we put out there

through our speech. Every week-weekly energy boost provides a seven-day spiritual forecast

where we provide our listeners with the most powerful

and practical tools to navigate the coming seven days. We do that through gleaning through the

wisdom of Kabbalah to pull out the principles and tools that are going to help you make the best

of this week's opportunities, but every episode also offers life lessons for any week of the year, any year of your

life. And this week is no different. It's really one of those ideas that even though you may work on it

or you have worked on it in the past, it comes back again and bites you in the butt. It's one of the

ways that the universe tests our spiritual growth is to see that when we're

tempted into old opportunities or, let's say, old versions of opportunities where in the past

we gave in, we gossiped, we made up stories, we said bad things, we even said bad things

about ourselves. And this week is no different.

One of the things that the Zohar says about this week, which is very, I think, very scary, but also

inspiring, is that thousands of years ago, if you were not on the straight and narrow, if you

were not behaving spiritually, there was an immediate

feedback loop from the universe that showed you, listen, you're talking about things you shouldn't be

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