LEV736 Those who speak negatively of others also violate [this] commandment. Since people do not want damaging information about themselves shared with others, gossips cannot claim to have even tried to fulfill this fundamental law. Gossips also violate the Torah's Golden Rule by revealing and discussing people's greatest areas of vulnerability. If we entered a room and heard people talking about us, what aspects of our lives would we least like to hear them discussing? It would probably be our character flaws and intimate details of our social life. Yet most of us, when gossiping, focus precisely on these two areas.