Lashon hara
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Lashon hara is the halakhic term for speech about a person or persons that is negative or harmful to them, even if it is true. It is speech that damages the person who is talked about either emotional
"No lashon hara" sign in the Mea Shearim quarter of Jerusalem
Advertisement on a bus saying "Lashon hara doesn't speak to me!" in Hebrew
Yisrael Meir Kagan
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Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan was a Lithuanian rabbi, posek, and ethicist whose works are widely influential in Orthodox Jewish life. He was known popularly as the Chofetz Chaim, after his book with tha
Lashon hara
…her down with tzaraath. Miriam had to stay outside of the camp for a week due to the tzaraath. During this time, all of Israel waited for her. Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan wrote two major halakhic works on the evil tongue: Chofetz Chaim ("Desirer of Life", Psalms 34:13–14) and Shmirat HaLashon ("Guarding the tongue…
Kagan in 1929
Kagan in Vienna, 1923
Yisrael Meir Kagan towards the end of his life.