Green Speech #13

Green Speech #13

Your imagination is quite clever – At some point you might learn enough, become aware enough of - of what Loshon hara is and how not okay it is.

You slowly become very aware of the words that come out of
your mouth. You begin to see how much of what you say is Loshon Hara.

Unfortunately , sometimes, Instead of being excited that you are growing in your awareness and limiting your Loshon Hara, you become frustrated by the effort involved in the constant vigilance, over each word that comes out of your mouth one must have in order to gain mastery over your words.

Then, sometimes, frustration leads to inner rebellion. Eventually your imagination might kick in and sabotage you by saying “what’s the use”
if you want to keep all the rules of Loshon Hara, it's either better not to say anything or just forget it it is too hard I wind up speaking too much Loshon Hara anyway.

Like everything in Torah and Mitzvos - Every time you do 1 thing it is precious on its own. It's never all or nothing when it comes to picking up a peice of gold out from a gold mine. You don't say if I can't fill my sack forget about it. You'll take whatever gold stone you can pick up. Over time 1 gold stone at a time you become a rich person.

So too, every time you don't speak a word of Loshon Hara it is like picking up a gold stone.