[Avodah] Is it Loshon Hora?

[Michael Kopinsky]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Liron Kopinsky <liron.kopinsky at gmail.com>wrote:

> 1) Do we have to say that LH has anything necessarily to do with whether
> the person's reputation was ruined? If person A speaks LH to person B, but
> person B doesn't believe the LH, it still is LH even if the person's
> reputation was not harmed in any way.
>

According to the Rambam, LH is damaging speech. This is different from the
Chofetz Chaim's definition of derogatory speech.


KT,
Michael
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