Gossip ‘isn’t always a bad thing,’ argue US professors
Jewish tradition views gossiping (lashon hara, or ‘evil talk’) as a great sin, even if the negative comments are true. Yisrael Meir Kagan, 19th-century Polish rabbi who became known as the Chafetz Chaim, published volumes on the harm from defaming others. The Rambam (Maimonides) describes talebearing as any statement that – if spread from one […]
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