The Prototypical Example of Words Goes Wrong

We're going to start by looking at one of the prototypical examples of speech gone wrong. The prototypical example of words gone wrong in or tradition is tied to tara, the skin disease. In the tora described the book of icra, which our rabbis essentially translate as the plague of damaging speech. So if what we started with here is the kind of roots of the idea of him bead la champ, the way that life is literally rooted in words,. swing now to the other direction, of mavet biad lachon the way that words can cause harm and even death.