Commandment 2

Commandment 2, 1

On Avoiding Evil-Speaking, and on Giving Alms in Simplicity. He said to me, "Be simple and guileless, and you will be as the children who know not the wickedness that ruins the life of men. First, then, speak evil of no one, nor listen with pleasure to any one who speaks evil of another. But if you listen, you will partake of the sin of him who speaks evil, if you believe the slander which you hear;