לשון הרע

One who slanders, the Holy One Blessed is He says to the Official of Hell, "I am on him from above, and you are onto him from below." His remedy is to engage in Torah and humble his self opinion. Also through this he will not come to slander.

Through slander, one enlarges his sins to the proportion of the three sins.

A matter said in the presence of the person being discussed, or in the presence of three listeners, is not accounted as slander. When there is not love between the Jewish People, gossipers are made, and through gossipers, scoffers are made.

This slander, even though it should not be accepted (outright as true), it warrants suspicion. People who love one another, it is permitted for them to tell each other things they heard from someone else, and the one who hears is permitted to accept his words, and this does not constitute slander.

One who speaks negatively about the People of Israel, in the end he will have illness on his mouth. Through slander, a man does not have desire to learn (Torah), also he derides the Tzaddik.

From slander one is saved through truth. When one guards himself from slander, he will also not contemplate bad on his fellow.

One who does not accept slander about a Tzaddik, through this he will merit to be counted among the tzaddikim.

Coarseness brings a person to speak disparagingly about others. Slander, one doesn't say until one comes to denying the core of faith and sinning in the Heavens and earth.

It is permissible to say slander about one who causes strife. One who says false slander on his fellow (lit. lets out a bad reputation – based on a lie), he doesn't ever get forgiveness.

One who says slander, and one who listens to it, it is fitting to thrown hm to the dogs.

A rectification for slander is the recitation of the (passages describing the) incense-offering.

Through slander, one cannot receive the countenance of the Divine Presence. Due to slander, plagues, come upon him, and his sins are magnified till the heavens, and it is fitting to stone him.