[Avodah] Lashon haRa in the Shulchan Aruch

Joseph Kaplan jkaplan at tenzerlunin.com
Sun Apr 7 15:11:10 PDT 2019


“It is often asked why no one tackled hilkhos shemiras halashon until
the CC. Or more pointedly, what changed in the early 20th cent that we
suddenly needed those laws codified.”

It may, indeed, be that something changed. Or possibly not and it may have been simply that this was an issue that the CC cared deeply about and found that there wasn’t as much halachic discussion about it as he thought there should be. IOW, had the CC lived 200 years earlier, he might have done the same thing then. There isn’t always an outside reason why something interests individuals. 
Joseph

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