LEV466 The holy Torah [] instructed: לֹא־תֵלֵ֤ךְ רָכִיל֙ בְּעַמֶּ֔יךָ, “Do not go as a talebearer among your nation.” (Leviticus 19:16). The Shelach explains that the pasuk uses the word “go” in order to teach us that the act of going [in order to speak negatively] is forbidden in its own right, aside from the actual prohibition of speaking rechilus.