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Lilmod Ulelamaid
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“Lilmod, you seem too rational a person to have this much of an emotional response to an issue. Why are you so attached to this issue? It seems to be taken too far at this point.”

FuturePotus, if you would study what the Gedolim have to say about the severity of loshon hora, what it causes and how it is the reason why we are still in golus, I think your question would disappear. Actually, some new questions would take its place: “Why is Lilmod underreacting? And why aren’t all the posters and readers reacting? And why aren’t those who are reacting reacting more strongly?”

“Don’t they realize how serious any loshon hora is? And don’t they realize that Loshon hora on the internet is millions of times more serious since it is read by millions of people from now until Mashiach come? And don’t they realize that loshon hora spoken about Am Yisrael as a whole or any group within Am Yisrael is way more serious than L”H about an individual? And don’t they realize how serious it is to speak l”h about a Torah institution? And don’t they realize how terrible it is to speak loshon hora about the Jewish people to goyim?
Don’t they know what Chazal say about “malshinim”? “גיהנום כלין והן אינן כלין”

Don’t they know that the Chofetz Chaim writes that we are in golus because of the sin of loshon hora and that Mashiach will come when we get rid of it? Why are they trying to prevent Mashiach from coming? Don’t they know of the great tragedies that the Chofetz Chaim writes happen as a result of loshon hora? Haven’t enough Jews been murdered and tortured already? Why are they causing any more to be murdered and tortured? How can someone remain silent when they see this happening?”

I seriously recommend that you (as well an all the posters and readers here) join Catch Yourself in the new cycle of Chafetz Chaim Yomi. If we realized how serious it is to post l’h online and how careful we have to be with every word we write, we wouldn’t dream of posting until we learned the halachos of loshon hora thoroughly.