I started reading "Positive Word Power" from the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation and came across the following which I thought I would share with you.
What did you say?
...The Talmud (Chagiga 5b) teaches us that in the Next World, each of us will have to answer this question regarding every word we spoke in our lifetimes. It proves this by citing a verse in Amos (4:13) which states "u'maggid l'adam mah sicho - He recounts to a person what were his words."
....Rav Chaim Volozhiner writes in Nefesh Hachaim that there is a particular reason why the verse states "mah sicho - what were his words," rather than the more common formulation of "es sicho - his words." The use of "mah" means that a person will not only hear his words, but he will see what his words did, what their consequences were to those who received them.
And just to reinforce the point that our words are being recorded to be played back later, here is an article about someone I am sure would like to take back some of his words.
H/T Memeorandum
Frank Luntz, the media-friendly Republican consultant and word wiz, told a group of college students this week that Rush Limbaugh and right-wing talk radio are "problematic" for the GOP and partly responsible for the stark polarization within the nation's political discourse. He only dared to speak so candidly about Limbaugh and other conservative hosts off the record. A secretly recorded video, though, captured Luntz's remark.
Continue reading: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/frank-luntz-rush-limbaugh-problematic-secret-tape
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