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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