Telegrams and cautions

 Another from the Rabbi's book

Dvorah and I learned as valuable a lesson as Naomi from this incident, one that had been expressed about a century earlier by the Haffetz Hayyim, a great Eastern European rabbinic scholar. He once taught: “When people are preparing a telegram, notice how carefully they consider each word before they put it down. That is how catch! we must be when we speak.”