When We Weaponize Words: Tazria Mezora
For a Shabbat Friendly Printable PDF scroll to the bottom. Every few weeks another story surfaces about cyberbullying — a teenager, sometimes younger, who took their own life. Words weaponised to minimise another's humanity, that in instances such as these, literally kill. The Talmud, centuries before the internet existed, had a term for this: kol hamalbim pnei chavero b'rabim — one who shames another in public, it is as though they have shed their blood ( Bava Metzia 58b).
