coffee addict wrote:
“To paraphrase the Chofetz Chaim: Just as one may not denigrate another person, one may not denigrate oneself…self denigration is not anivus (humility). Anivus is self-effacement, which is a commendable trait; self denigration is not.” where is this quote from the Chofetz Chaim Ive always heard the story about the Chofetz Chaim dengrating himself on a train and someone slapped him and he said one can’t say lashon hara about himself but then i heard someone say that his grandaughter said that story isn’t true
so i want a source”
To say that the Chofetz Chaim would have paskened a halacha based on the above story is ridiculous. Halacha is paskened based on sources.
Furthermore there is a halacha mefurash in sefer Chofetz Chaim (I forget where precisely) where he says something along the lines of “saying loshon hora that is about someone else and one’s self together is still asur because you’re still saying loshon hora about another”. From that halacha it’s pretty much explicit that loshon hora about oneself is mutar.