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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pursuant to reading a submission of my own, I
noticed an anecdote about me in someone else's submission
to </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> Avodah, in the same issue.
This had me, kivayachol, full of anger and throwing my fork down over
something I disagreed with. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>