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Sefer Chafetz Chayim םייח ץפח רפס
Hilchot Esurei Lashon Hara ערה ןושל ירוסיא תוכלה
Kelal Het - Halachah 9 א הכלה - ח ללכ

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(K8/8/6)-(21)..by reprimanding: Please see further on in the 10
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Kelal, the 7 notation of the Be’er Mayim Chayim. What I wrote
“remain passive and say nothing,” because in a majority of times we see
that someone who involves himself in these kinds of matters is not very
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careful to conform to all of the necessary details. Even if he is lacking 'ח ללכּ
only one detail from among the details I wrote, besides remaining with
the sin of having spoken Lashon Hara he also incites more and more
argumentation and increasingly inflames the controversy. And if he is a
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distinguished person his actions will also have caused a desecration of ,וינינִע לכבּ ערָָה ןוֹשׁל רוּפּס רוּסִּא רַאֹבי הז ללכבּ
G‑d’s Holy Name. .םיפיִעס ד"י וֹבוּ
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Mekor Hachayim
K /9. Understand even more, that it is even forbidden to humiliate םייחה רוקמ
or insult those who are dead (22). Our Authorities have written that
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our ancestors enacted excommunication as a punishment in order לכבּ ערָה ןוֹשׁל ארָקְנּ המ ,וּנרְאבּ וּרבעֶשׁ םיִללכּבּ הנִּה
that people should not slander or speak Lashon Hara against those ןוֹשׁל תלבּקַ ןידִבּ )הזבּ אצוֹיּכּ ןכו( אנוגּ יאהכּ ןכו ,וינינִע
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who are dead, even if they were unlearned people. And all the more ֶ ָ ֵ ַ ֵ ְ
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so if they were Torah Scholars, whoever slanders them is committing ,ערָה ןוֹשׁל רוּפִּס רוּסִּאבּ ראבנ הז ללכִבּ הָתּעו .ערָה
a very serious crime for which he is culpable for excommunication,
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as this law is brought down in Yoreh De’Ah section #243, paragraph אוּהֶשׁ תאו ,רפּסְמה לֶשׁ וֹתוּהמ ,הרָוֹתּה וּנל הרָסאֶשׁ
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#7. It is forbidden to humiliate a Torah Scholar even if the insult is ןכו ,ןרָדְִסכּ לֹכּה ,וינפל רפּסְמ אוּהֶשׁ שׁיִאהו ,וילע רפּסְמ
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directed against him personally and all the more so it is forbidden
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to demean his Torah learning (23). אלפּי לא ןכלו ,ערָה ןוֹשׁל תלבּקַ ןינִעבּ ראבנ אנוגּ יאהכּ
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,דֹאְמ טוּשׁפּ רבדּ קיִתְּעמ ינא םיִמעְפִל יִכּ ,ארֵוֹקּה יניֵעבּ
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Be’er Mayim Chayim אוּהֶשׁ ינְפִּמ וֹא ,ןרָדְִסכּ םירִמאמּה ךְֵשְׁמה וּיהיֶּשׁ ינְפִּמ אוּהו
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(K8/9/1)-(22)..humiliate or insult those who are dead: This is אצְמי ,בֵטיה ןיּעיֶּשׁכּ םגו ,הזבּ ןיִשׁבַּתְּשִׁמ םיִבּרֶַשׁ ,רבדּ
based on the words of the Mordechi (Babba Kamma) at the beginning of לֶשׁ וֹתוּהמ תא ראבנ הנוֹשׁארִו .שׁוּדִּח רבדּ ןינִע לכּ ףוֹסבּ
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perek HaChoveil (paragraph #82); please see that reference. And what I
wrote here “that our ancestors enacted excommunication as punishment,” .רפּסְמה
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is what the Mordechi wrote in that perek (paragraph #106) and is brought
down in the Orach Chayim, section #606, paragraph #3.
.זומת ו"כ ,'ב רדא ז"ט ,ולסכ 'ז - תרבועמ הנש .בא 'ד ,ןסינ 'ד ,ולסכ 'ד - הטושפ הנש :ימוי חול
(K8/9/2)-(23)..and all the more so it is forbidden to demean
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his Torah learning: That which we occasionally find in the writings of רפּסְמה םִא ןיבּ ,ערָה ןוֹשׁל רוּפִּס רוּסִּאבּ קוּלִּח ןיא .א
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the Geonim of earlier generations, that one of them (seemingly) insulted
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his colleague, was always only in the context of a halachic difference of המּכּ אוּה תוּליגרְדּ ףא ,קוֹחרָ וֹא בוֹרקָ ,הָשִּׁא )א( וֹא שׁיִא
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