I can't speak to the Jewish religious/moral/cultural aspects of this, obviously, only to my own moral sense. But. I think you taught several important lessons here:
--what a community is, and how to relate to the members of that community we may not like so much.
--that there are *degrees* of wrong, and that verbally repeating lashon ha-ra to others is a greater offense than thinking badly of someone. (This, IMO, is where most sects of Christianity fall down--the idea that looking lustfully at another woman while you're in a monogamous marriage is as bad as actually going out and sleeping with her.)
--*why* some of the rules you're teaching them exist.
--a lesson about forgiveness, and how to heal, and how to move forward as a community after an incident like this has occurred.
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Date: 2007-09-30 06:25 pm (UTC)--what a community is, and how to relate to the members of that community we may not like so much.
--that there are *degrees* of wrong, and that verbally repeating lashon ha-ra to others is a greater offense than thinking badly of someone. (This, IMO, is where most sects of Christianity fall down--the idea that looking lustfully at another woman while you're in a monogamous marriage is as bad as actually going out and sleeping with her.)
--*why* some of the rules you're teaching them exist.
--a lesson about forgiveness, and how to heal, and how to move forward as a community after an incident like this has occurred.
I personally think you did a lot of good.