Green Speech #14

Green Speech #14

Most people are involved with conversation much of the day.

It is much more convenient and comfortable not to have to think

about every word that comes out of your mouth. For many people

it appears unrealistic to spend the time and effort to know the laws

of “Green” Speech” (Loshon Hara) 

Eventually guarding one’s words and speech became a Mitzvah only for

the very pious. Many people have become accustomed to speaking without

measuring their words and have accepted as normal that it is okay to speak

derogatory, damaging and hurtful words and speech about another.

The  laws of Loshon Hara are on the same level of other Torah laws such

as eating pork, not observing the Shabbat etc but now they are considered

to be nothing more than an optional stringency that only few were concerned with.

Now the Chofetz Chaim was written a book named “Chofetz Chaim” that contains

all the laws of Loshon Hara. And what was generally inaccessible, the laws of Loshon hora

have now been collected and organized.

With this in mind, we will now go through the laws of Loshon Hara.