Musar untuk Ulangan 22:18

How great is the power of lashon hara! For when we were in the desert, many times we rebelled against the L-rd, as in the episode of the golden calf and the like, and still their decree was sealed only because of the lashon hara of the spies alone. And we find there (Arachin 15a) that verbal imputation of an [illicit] act ["motzi shem ra"] is worse than the act itself. For one who ravishes a virgin pays a fine of only fifty silver shekels, while one who imputes an evil name [to her] is fined a hundred silver shekels, it being written (Devarim 22:19): "And they shall fine him a hundred [shekels of] silver… for he has given out an evil name [(of licentiousness)] about a virgin of Israel." And he [the imputer of the evil name] also receives stripes because of this, as it is written (Ibid. 18): "And they shall chastise him [with stripes]."

(Devarim 22:13): "If a man takes a wife and he comes upon her, and he hates her, (19): and he libels her and gives out about her an evil name, and he says: 'I took this woman and I drew near to her, and I did not find virginity in her'… (22:18): and the elders of the city shall take the man and they shall chastise him." Our sages of blessed memory have said that he receives stripes, having transgressed "You shall not go talebearing."