Green Speech #4
The Chofetz Chaim brings many sources to support the point that
Loshon Hara (Derogatory, negative, hurtful and damaging Speech)
is the cause of the Jewish people’s exile
In Parashas Shemos, the Torah relates the suffering of the Jews in Egypt. The Torah states that Moshe, who had grown up in Pharaoh’s palace, went out amongst his people to share their pain and suffering.
In his wanderings amongst the Jews, he encountered the notorious pair, Dasan and Aviram.
They made it known to Moshe that they had told the Egyptian authorities on him that they had seen Moshe kill an Egyptian who was attacking a Jew. Now that the Loshon Hara had been said, the Egyptian authorities no longer saw Moshe as family but an enemy who had to be killed.
Moshe’s Response in the Torah is “Now the matter is known” (Shemos 2:15). The Midrash interprets this to mean, “Now I understand why the Jewish people are in this terrible exile. It is because they speak loshon hora.”
Rabbi Michael Stern
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