Posts Tagged: Lashon Hara
The Origins of LaShon Hara
Miriam and Aaron complained to Moshe about his wife, calling her Isha Cushit, a woman of Cush ("Numbers," Chapter 12). The word Cushi in modern Hebrew usage refers to a person’s...
Finding the Goodness in Our World
Woody Allen, a keen but unusual observer of our world, once remarked: “More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path...
We Must Praise People, Not Just God
The Sages understood tsara’at -- the theme of this week’s parsha -- not as an illness, but as a miraculous public exposure of the sin of lashon hara (speaking badly about others). Judaism...
The Bible and Constitution Protect the KKK’s Right to ‘Adopt-A-Highway’
When Free Speech Collides with Hate Speech, Truth is the Remedy Conspicuously wearing my kippah, I walked out of a TJ Maxx in Cincinnati,...
