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Subject:
important insight
Author:
amybitton@sympatico.ca
Date:
6/3/2007
I appreciate Rabbi Hecht's concept that it is the thought process that prededes lashon hara that needs examination, even more than the words themselves. One needs the patience to live with cognitive dissonance, i.e. the discomfort that comes when our ideal image of what somebody should have done did not actualize. If we can learn to live patiently with that cognitive dissonance for a while, while refraining from speech, then the context would have a better chance of being understood, and a lot of lashon hara could be eliminated.
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