Tuesday, March 5, 2013

AVAK LASHON HARA

 

In the merit of this learning may Nechunya ben Shiraz be blessed with an immediate refuah shleima bitoch she'ar cholei yisrael. 

 


To answer a question "I can't tell you it's lashon hara." falls under the category of avak lashon hara, the dust of lashon hara. We need to be careful not to answer in such a manner. Such an answer is automatically implying something negative about what happened and may instigate the listener to continue prodding. 

II 
We need to be careful not to praise a person in front of someone who doesn't like them. Why? It is very probable that the listener will contradict you by saying, "Oh, you really think he's so great? I can tell you information about him that will make you change your mind!"

(Purity of Speech by C.T. Friedman)


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