Editing Lashon hara (section)

==''Baalei lashon hara''==
The expression ''baalei lashon hara'' literally means "masters of evil tongue", and it refers to habitual speakers of ''lashon hara''. The serious prohibition of communicating ''lashon harah'' relates foremost to somebody who incidentally did so. Someone who makes it his habit to talk ''lashon harah'' about others ("did you hear ...", "do you already know ...", etc.) is called a ''ba'al lashon hara''. By repeatedly communicating so, lashon hara became an integral part of this person, and his/her sins are far more severe, because this person regularly creates a ''[[chillul hashem]]'', a "desecration of the name of [[HaShem]]" ({{bibleverse|Leviticus|22:32|JPS}}). ''Lashon hara'', ''rechilut'' and ''motzi shem ra'' are not accepted social tools in Judaism, because such behavior cuts the person who does in this manner off from many good things in the world around them. It is often phrased that one should stay away from people who communicate ''lashon hara'', because any day, one will almost certainly become an object of derogatory communication by the same people.<ref name=torah.org-lashonhara-prohibition />