Have you ever been in a situation where gossip hurt feelings? Can you reflect on an example of this from your own life?
Long before a rabbi by the name of Yisrael Meir Kagan, known as the Hafetz Hayim, penned his famous treatise on the laws of lashon hara, or “evil speak,” the most basic articulation of the laws was penned by the great medieval philosopher and Torah scholar Maimonides in the 12th century.
In Hilchot Deot, Laws of Personal Development 7:1-3, Maimonides lays out the laws of lashon hara. Although there is one br...
