“Malbin”, Not “Malbim”:
Included in the Torah’s command not to wrong another Jew is the commandment not to harm a fellow Jew with one’s words.
When Rav Meir Shapiro zt”l served as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, he would encourage the talmidim to say divrei Torah in front of their peers so that they would become trained in public speaking, which was a skill they would need to have when they would later become Rabbanim or teachers of Torah. One student once was giving a nice drasha when another talmid suddenly called out that what the bochur was saying was not his own chiddush, rather it is written in the Malbim. The talmid who was speaking got very embarrassed, but Rav Meir said, “No. This is not a Malbim. It is a ‘melaven’ – ‘melaven pnei chaveiro b’rabim’ (embarrassing one’s friend in public).”
