Question: Hello, Thanks so much for your help. I was recently at a restaurant and the person I was with began speaking with a family near us. He was speaking… Read more »

Question: Hello, Thank you for your help. My question is: Is it lashon hara for a bal teshuva to say in social settings that they are a bal teshuva, or… Read more »

Question: Is it permitted to speak Lashon Hara about a Non-Jew, i.e. “The President of blank country is a very mean person” ? Answer: Lashon Hora does not apply to… Read more »

Question: Is it Lashon Hara and/or wrong to describe a person, yeshiva, or shul as ‘out of town’. (Not for Shidduchim purposes). Thank You! Answer: It depends on the circumstances… Read more »

Question: Can I sell/distribute newspapers or jewish magazines if they may have articles with Lashon Hara in them? Answer: We can assume that kosher newspapers are careful about these halachos,… Read more »

Question: Hello, Thank you so much for your help. My question is regarding if something is lashon hara. I prefaced the question to my friend who is a Rebbetzin saying… Read more »

Question: Someone acted negatively to someone and caused them to cry. While rebuking the culprit, I mentioned that they caused the other person to cry. I later regretted mentioning that…. Read more »

Question: Thank you for this incredible service and harbatzas hatorah! It is halachically permitted for me to discuss my son’s teacher with my husband if there is not a specific… Read more »

Question: My mother in law is coming to town. I dont like how she intereacts with our kids sometimes. I want to know if I can halachically discuss my discomforts… Read more »

Question: Hello, Thank you so much for your help, it is sincerely appreciated. I recently ordered something online and the wrong item was sent (there were two color options and… Read more »

Question: The חפץ חיים writes מותר to ask people about this בחור in תורה, if he did not ask you directly, he just said tell me about this and this… Read more »

Question: Lichvod Harav We are considering playgroup options for our child and I’ve met several people with playgroups. Can I discuss my impressions with my husband openly even if it… Read more »

Question: Shalom aleichem kavod harav, I’m a middle-aged woman with a frum blog featuring articles relating to emuna & charedi politics & social issues from a frum perspective. I have a very… Read more »

Question: if you do not talk about a person,you talk about the public you say למשל the kashrus in bnei Brak is very weak,you did not say which store and… Read more »

Question: Wondering if there r issues with reading websites or newspaper articles like … in terms of loshon hara etc….. Are stories like these a problem to read about on theses even… Read more »

Question: to say that somebody got divorced I would think that goes into חפץ חיים כלל ב אות ב that if you say this in front of three people or… Read more »

Question: if everybody knows about the story, do you still have to be מקפיד what the חפץ חיים write in כלל ב אות ט that to make the story sound… Read more »

Question: If I see something online or Yeshiva World some thing negative about a person am I allowed to tell this over to somebody else if it’s not for Toeles… Read more »

Question: If on social media someone asks about the quality of an item or if a store sells good or bad quality can you answer it’s not good quality ?… Read more »

Question: Shalom, I became a Baal Tsuva many years ago during my service in the United States Navy. The United States military has it’s own legal system. On my ship… Read more »

Question: Hello, If someone was about to say a story that was Lashan Hara, you made a comment, which in essence made him continue his story (a follow up question… Read more »

Question: Dear Rav, Is what I heard true that if one speaks lashon hara, even once, on someone else, he gives away all his mitzvos that he has done in… Read more »

Question: A not so uncommon scenario. Let us say that there are 2 companies. Company ‘A’ run by Reuven and Shimon (clearly a Jewish company) and company ‘B’ run by… Read more »

Question: A and B are brothers. their parents are C and D. A lives out of town and is currently struggling with parnasah. he is hesitant to move back to… Read more »

Question: Rabbi, what if while in a group of the co-workers they start to gossip, and I smile or make a comment that would appear like I agree with the… Read more »

Question: Dear Rabbi, I need your help understanding something in Torah. It’s the issue of Lashon Hara. I am guilty of gossiping (a lot) throughout my life. I gossipped due… Read more »

Question: What is the heter for the secretary in a school to type all the school grades (even the low grades and behavior problems) into the computer system. There is… Read more »

Question: BH In the article about lashon hara, it is stated that even the person about whom lashon hara is said, is punished. What is the basis for this–especially, if… Read more »

Question: I know that the speaker and listener of loshon horah get a sin. Does the subject the person spoken about also get sin?   Answer: The Midrash says that… Read more »

Question: Is it lashon hara to say the name of a person that choked in your school today? Answer: A person that unfortunately choked is not an embarrassment to the… Read more »

Question: 1) If one posts a video of someone else acting inappropriately, is that lashon horah? He isn’t “saying” anything? 2) If someone is acting inappropriately and one tells others… Read more »

Question: 16 Av 5777 – August 8, ’17 I am working at a Kitchen Cabinet place, where there are set rules that I cannot allow delivery of merchandise before receiving… Read more »

Question: The Chofetz Chaim says that loshon hara is equal to all sins combined. He does quote the Yerushalmi 1:1 which says, “ותלמוד תורה כנגד כולן”. The Yerushalmi does not… Read more »