[Avodah] Not livid with anger

[Rabbi Y. H. Henkin]

Pursuant to reading a submission of my own, I noticed an anecdote about me in someone else's submission to  Avodah, in the same issue. This had me, kivayachol, full of anger and throwing my fork down over something I disagreed with. 
It didn't happen, but I recognize the phenomenon: a surfeit of yirat hakavod which enables talmidim to tell over second-hand stories of this sort without ever noticing that the embellishments constitute lashon hara and dibah.
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