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Moshe Geller, Hashem Yishmerehu, has been a confidant, a life                                       regarding the cover photo:
               support and a source of comfort to me.                                              We  would  like  to  express  our  heartfelt  appreciation  to  rabbi
                                                                                                   yisroel Meir zaks, a grandson of the chafetz chayim ZT”L for
               More Hashgacha peratit.  some of my wife’s friends introduced                       giving us a rare (passport) photo of his grandfather for use on the
               her to Mrs. sarah Jacobs in Monsey who for many years has                           cover of this sefer.
               been a force for spreading an awareness of shemirat Halashon.
               Mrs. Jacobs, in turn, introduced me to rabbi betzalel trovitz in
               Jerusalem whose tireless efforts at teaching and disseminating                                          translator’s note:
               the  words  of  the  chafetz  chayim  were  at  the  forefront  of  an              The Chafetz Chayim teaches that Galut is a Kapparah for the arrogance
               enormous  awakening  of  these  laws  in  eretz  yisrael.    rabbi                  of lashon Hara and that lashon Hara is a result of the baseless hatred
               trovitz has published and distributed many thousands of copies                      that exists in society. today it is obvious that the galut has gone on too
               of the sefer chafetz chayim and shemirat Halashon in israel                         long and is much too bitter.  learning the words of the chafetz chayim
               and the united states.  Mrs. Jacobs also introduced me to Mr.                       and practicing what we learn will demonstrate to HaKadosh Baruch Hu
               efrayim babbi who produced these sefarim for rabbi trovitz.                         our intense desire to end the galut and bring the geulah now.

               When we first  began to think  about publishing these notes as
               a sefer, my ateret torah friend of many years Mr. alan Haber
               insisted that it be published as a Hebrew text with the english
               translation on the facing page.  the rabbis of our community were
               encouraging and supportive of this project; Rabbi David Ozeirey
               (yad yosef torah center), rabbi david cohen (rosh yeshivat
               ohel  torah,  beit  shaul  u’Miriam  synagogue),  rabbi  Mendel
               Kessin (Tiferet Ramchal Institute), Rav Chaim Benoliel (Rosh
               yeshivah Mikdash Melech), rav dovid lopian (rosh yeshiva
               Mikdash Melech), Chacham Eliezer Harary (Rosh Kollel Ateret
               torah), chacham yosef Harari raful (rosh yeshiva ateret torah)
               and rabbi eliezer ginzberg (Moro d’asra beis Midrash agudat
               yisrael snif zichron shmuel ).  the preface and introduction to
               Sefer Chafetz Chayim was published just before Rosh Hashanna
               5764 and we distributed nearly 6,000 copies of this sefer at no
               cost to over 20 communities in the united states.

               in a parallel effort the chafetz chayim’s sefer shemirat Halashon
               was translated with the editorial review of rabbi naftali Malka
               (Deal Kollel, NJ) and, Chasdei Hashem, two years ago, Shavu’ot
               5766 we published for the first time the English translation of
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