29:
“The chofetz Chaim said you cannot speak l”h about yourself” – (Moderator’s Comment in the OP of the other thread; granted I don’t know which Mod)
“Moderator :The chofetz Chaim said you cannot speak l”h about yourself
Wrong.
My 9th grade rebbi, who was born in 1934 and named after the chofetz Chaim,
said the chofetz Chaim
meant that with a touch of humour and as advice
Dare to find it anywhere in his sefer” – (It Is Time For Truth)
“I don’t know what works for you in real life, but if you have a halacha or Torah matter to teach me, I am all ears and thrilled to hear it. If you have to end it with a threat, I have to assume you haven’t read the Chofetz Chaim often enough to be relied upon.
I will look into your tale.” – (Moderator 29)
It certainly sounds to me that your point was that the established Halacha is that it is Assur to speak LH about yourself, but that you would look into IITFT’s “tale” to the contrary. All I was saying is that, in fact, it is the other way around.
If I misunderstood, thanks for clarifying.
Either way, I don’t think “Dare to find it in the Sefer” is a threat, or an offensive way of making a point. I actually think it’s pretty tame by the standard of typical Beis Medrash banter.