Green Speech #22 - Do you want to know what someone said about you especially if it was not nice or downright nasty?
Judaism's primary commandment against speaking Loshon hora and rechilus (gossip) is:
"You shall not go as a peddler of gossip among your people (Vayikra
19:16). In its literal definition, a rachil is a peddler.
“Who is the peddler? Someone who collects information about what people say and do and peddles it to others.”
The classic case of "Gossip" (Rechilus) is , one person tells another, “Do you know what he said about you?”
An overwhelming amount of animosity in offices, homes and neighborhoods comes from the misguided belief that it is good and helpful to report back to people any negative comments made about them.
Many people operate on the theory that we need to know what others are saying about us. But in reality, the Chofetz Chaim says, that this Gossip (rechilus) serves no positive purpose. It creates enemies. He stresses that even if the information is absolutely true, relating it to others destroys the world.
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