DEUT372 One who speaks lashon hara also transgresses the prohibition of הִשָּׁ֣מֶר לְךָ֔ פֶּן־תִּשְׁכַּ֖ח אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ, “Guard yourself, lest you forget Hashem, your G-d" (Devarim 8:10), which cautions against arrogance. One who ridicules and mocks another person presumably considers himself wiser and more distinguished than others, for if he recognized his own flaws, he would not ridicule another person. There is a well-known statement of Chazal (Sotah 4b), which describes the severity of the sin of arrogance: one who is arrogant will not merit to have his remains rise for techiyas hameisim (the resurrection of the dead); he is considered as one who worships idols and other forces; the Shechinah wails over him; and he is called “abominable.” In particular, if one glorifies himself by degrading another person, then he certainly violates this prohibition, besides forfeiting his share in the World to Come, for Chazal, in their Divine wisdom, excised such a person from the World to Come, as they said, “One who glorifies himself through the degradation of another person has no share in the World to Come.”