'''Not to commit murder.''' This page may also seem to be a no-brainer. But wait! The prohibition against murder also covers Lashon Horah, Evil speech. Gossip remains a major form of evil speech, as eventually (remember the game Telephone? Someone whispers something in someone’s ear, and by the time it gets around the circle it’s all out of context and all out of proportion), it ruins lives. Should a person commit suicide because of rumors or gossip, their blood is on your hands. Talebearing is another thing. Sometimes the words of our mouths arouse jealousy, and this can cause anger, enough so that one can desire to kill. Again, this blood is on your hands. Hence the Sages said Silence is better for the wise, and how much more so for fools, as it is said, Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise. (Pesachim 99a). Mishnah 17. Simeon, his son, used to say: all my days I grew up among the Sages, and I have found nothing better for a person than silence. Study is not the most important thing, but deed; whoever indulges in too many words brings about sin.(Pirke Avos 1:17) Mishnah 13. R. Akiba said: Jesting and light-headedness lead a man on to lewdness; Tradition is a fence to the Torah; tithes [form] a fence to wealth, vows a fence to self-restraint; a fence to wisdom is silence. (Pirke Avos 3:13)<ref>[http://jdstone.org/truth/files/noach_ov.html The Hollow Inheritance]</ref>
