Now we return to the congestion of a tightly concentrated nomadic city of Jews several thousand years ago. Every neighbor is Jewish. Those across the path are Jewish. Those to the right and left are also Jewish. The neighbor immediately behind us is Jewish.
Every neighbor is Jewish.
Yet that does not provide an out for Jews living in the uncongested, wide open spaces to speak loshon hora. Jews whose positions often receive much attention such as leaders and public figures in the center of the beehive, so to speak, still have the same mitzvahs to fulfill even though they are in constant stress and always dealing with the public. There are many stories that one could tell regarding the tragedies of loshon hora. This particular story is about a non Jew who was an extremely successful minister of his faith. In his early twenties just after he graduated from Bible college he went to a large city in America where he conducted several special services for local churches.