Fofoca
A fofoca destrói reputações e relacionamentos. A Bíblia condena severamente o murmúrio, a calúnia e a palavra maldosa, chamando o cristão a edificar com a boca.
O poder destrutivo
O homem perverso semeia contendas, e o que anda com fofocas separa amigos íntimos. A fofoca é veneno social.
A perverse ish soweth madon (strife, dissension),
and a whisperer separateth close friends.
A chanef (hypocrite, man without G-d) with his peh (mouth) destroyeth his re’a,
but through da’as (knowledge) shall the tzaddikim be delivered.
A bringer of rekhil (gossip), revealeth sod (secrets, confidences),
but he that is of a ne’eman ruach concealeth the matter.
He that hideth sin’ah with sfatayim sheker,
and he that uttereth a slander, is a kesil (fool).
Edificar com palavras
Não saia da boca nenhuma palavra torpe, mas só a que serve para edificação. Quem fala mal do irmão fala mal da lei.
Let no lashon hora proceed out of your peh, but only a dvar that is tov, for edification in accordance with the need, that it may mediate Chen v’Chesed Hashem to the ones hearing.
He that walketh blamelessly, and worketh tzedek,
and speaketh emes from his lev.
He that backbiteth not with his leshon,
nor doeth ra’ah to his re’a,
nor taketh up a slur to discredit his neighbor.
Ashrey are you when they reproach you and persecute you and speak all kinds of lashon horah against you, speaking sheker (falsehood, lies) because of me.