4. Be kind to yourself. Speaking badly even about yourself is unethical.
הלכות שמירת הלשון It is permissible to speak disparagingly concerning a rasha, wicked individual. With regard to potentially harmful speech, it is obvious…
It is forbidden to speak loshon hara about children. While most people understand that “kids are kids” and the Torah…
Unlike statements that are derogatory, a non-derogatory but potentially harmful statement can be made about a person if it is…
Making a statement about a product that would discourage people from buying it constitutes speaking loshon hara as it could…
Any information that, although not derogatory could harm an individual’s opportunity for a job or a shidduch should it become…
One who conveys information to others has no control over who will hear it and in what setting it will…
Thus far we have focused on the statements which are derogatory in nature. The second category of loshon hara involves…
We have seen that to speak derogatorily of one’s fellow is to degrade one’s own status as a creation b’tzelem…
Once something is defined as derogatory, it is forbidden to relate it other than for constructive purposes and under specific…
While the Scriptural prohibition against loshon hara applies only to speaking about the living, our Sages prohibit making slanderous remarks…