[Avodah] Loshon Hora

[Zev Sero]

On 19/12/2011 6:28 AM, Prof. Levine wrote:
>  From today's Hakhel email Bulletin.
>
>> *VERY IMPORTANT OBSERVATION: *We had received the following from Rabbi Moshe Goldberger, Shlita, relating to this past week’s Parsha:
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>> “Yosef brought bad reports to Father. The Medrash says we learn to avoid Loshon Hora. What were the costs of those words? Yosef was in prison for 12 years. His father who had listened suffered for 22 years. Words can be very costly!”
>
> However, it was because of this Loshon Hora that Yaakov and his family went down to Mitzraim and, as a result, the Jewish nation was created. So this Loshon Hora brought about the most important development in history - the creation of the Jewish people!
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> Are we to surmise from this that Loshon Hora can have positive benefits as well? YL

Everything that happens has positive results in the long run, or else
it would never happen.  Kol ma de`avad Rachmana letav `avad, after all.
But that doesn't mean the event itself isn't negative, and it doesn't
absolve those who do wrong things from suffering the consequences.


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