מוסר אנושי

Evil speech — lashon hara, in Hebrew — refers to the prohibition against speech that is harmful to another person, even though it may be true. The parameters, laws, and spiritual implications of lashon hara are discussed throughout the Jewish textual tradition and are a focus of Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan's Chafetz Chaim, the first work to organize the laws of proper speech comprehensively.