Ok, so the question on the floor is:
Is it lashon hara to for two people who see someone do something together, to then speak to each other derogatorily about it?
I will try to pull out the ol’ sefer chofetz chaim over shabbos, and get back to you.
Ok, so I wasn’t able to go through it as much as I’d have liked, but here is what I’m thinking: Isn’t this identical to the story of Miriam, where both miriam and aharon knew what had happened, and it was still lashon hara to talk about it it in a derogatory manner.
And is lashon hara generally anything you say which will cause someone harm, and won’t it cause someone harm if you point out to other people bad what she is doing is?
As an aside, I will tell you my funny rant about sefer chofetz chaim. It says in 4:6 that you are allowed to tell someone’s rebbi about his aveiros if that will help him, and you can even do so if the rebbi is not so careful and might tell other people about it.
So I was wondering, what kind of rebbi goes around telling lashon hara about his talmidim?
No wonder his talmidim are doing aveiros.