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Halakhah su Salmi 50:20

תֵּ֭שֵׁב בְּאָחִ֣יךָ תְדַבֵּ֑ר בְּבֶֽן־אִ֝מְּךָ֗ תִּתֶּן־דֹּֽפִי׃

Siedi e parli contro tuo fratello; Tu calunni il figlio di tua madre.

Sefer Chasidim

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” (Exod. 20:13). By implication of this negative command it is forbidden to say a shameful thing about a neighbor not in his presence, i.e., that if he were to hear it, it would anger him.1Arakhin 15b. As it is written, “Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, thou slanderest thine own mother’s son” (Ps. 50:20).
But if he has committed sins and has been reproved privately but he has not accepted (the reproofs) then it is permissible to reprimand him publicly for his evil doings, with or without his presence.2Maimonides, Hilkhoth Deoth, 6:8.
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