[Avodah] FW: Noach and Lashon T'horah

[M Cohen]

>>It always bothered me: The Torah nevertheless does use the lashon "tamei"
many times (my CD search came up with 238). What happened to the concern for
lashon nekiah?


I heard from R Yitzhak knobel (in the name of R Yaakov kaminetsky ? the
following explanation:

..actually 'tamei' is not technically a lashon ainah nekiah, and the torah
c/ have used tamei here too (and therefore uses everywhere else)

however since the flood was brought on thru the avairah of znus (Rashi 6:12
& 6:13), and we know that the nivel peh is a common pesach that can lead to
znus, the torah goes out of its way here to be extra careful with its
loshon.

Mordechai Cohen