[Avodah] Lashon Hara in the Torah

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 04:29:34PM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote:
> The Torah discloses Miryam's indiscretion
> but not that of Aharon HaCohen
> [although we ought to ask if the T did not why did Chazal]
...
> Why does the T disclose the indiscretion of Sarah Immenu?

We learn Hil' Geneivas Daas from comparing that event to the end of
Bereishis when the bothers entirely lie about Yaaqov asking Yosef
to forgive them rather than Hashem's only telling Avraham a partial
truth.

(I am not sure "indiscretion" is the right word. She laughed, perhaps
involuntary, in private. Had HQBH not spoken up, no one would have
known. The question is her bitachon, not her discretion.)

And in the reverse... If the pasuq was trying to make a point of
portraying Re'uvein's and Dovid's actions as much worse than Chazal say
they actually were, why do they defuse the pasuq's statement by telling
us so?

Or you would ask, why mention the action at all, even without guzma?

> would someone please offer to explain the Ohr HaChaim - VaTeChaChesh Sarah
> 18:15
> what Sarah Imenu feared

HQBH. She instinctively denied her lack of bitachon evidenced from her
lauch because of having the yir'ah a servant would have for her master.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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