Green Speech #20
Next we will see just how damaging Loshon hara is from a Torah perspective by seeing how many positive and negative Torah commandments are transgressed by one simple statement of Loshon Hara.
Again, Loshon Hara is words or speech that is either: derogatory, negative, hurtful, damaging or gossip unless you will save someone else from damage and injury (and even then there are conditions on how and what to say to warn someone of impending harm or damage
Before, we get to that here are some basics of Loshon Hara
The prohibition against Loshon hora applies to information that you are saying even if:
a) Even if what you are saying is true
b) Even if the person you are talking about is right there in person
(not talking about them behind their back)
c) Even just by listening to Loshon hara and accepting what the
person is saying as fact to Loshon Hara you transgress a negative commandment
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