Category Archives: Shmiras Haloshon

The way people talk about others to you is the way they talk about you to others.

Be very careful when you bump into old friends.  Rehashing old times and asking him or her how so and so is doing, often leads to lashon hara.

Just as the reward for Torah study is equal to the reward for all other mitzvos, the punishment for lashon hara is equal to the punishment for all other sins.  ~ Talmud Yerushalmi, cited in Shmiras HaLashon

If, chas v’shalom, a person’s speech or hearing became damaged, it would cause him more anguish than the loss of any organ, since these two faculties are so crucial.  All the more so would a person suffer great anguish in … Continue reading →

You are forbidden to tell others that a person failed to fulfill mitzvos.  ~ Guard Your Tongue

Even if no harm was caused by one’s lashon hara – such as if his audience did not believe it – he still transgressed a prohibition, and requires atonement. ~ Chofetz Chaim zt”l – I’m so sorry that the previous … Continue reading →

The Torah understands the depths of our nature, and reveals to us that we are indeed capable of guarding our tongues. ~ Chaftez Chaim

From the time we were exiled from our land, we have been praying and longing each day that Hashem may at last redeem us, but our prayers have not yet been answered.  There are many sins responsible for the length … Continue reading →

If a person uses a limb of his body to perform a mitzvah in this world, Hashem’s radiance will rest upon that limb in the World to Come.  However, if he forsakes one of the 248 positive commandments (which correspond … Continue reading →