OU TORAH ONE+ONE Yehuda By Rabbi Jack Abramowitz

ה’ הַצִּילָה נַפְשִׁי מִשְּׂפַת שֶׁקֶר מִלָּשׁוֹן רְמִיָּה Hashem, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. – Psalms 120:2 The Malbim clarifies the difference between lying lips and a deceitful tongue. A person who has lying lips will slander you behind your back. One who has a deceitful tongue is even worse; such a person actually hates you but feigns friendship to your face. In this verse – the verse for the name Yehuda and all other names that start with Yud and end with Hei – David asks G-d for salvation from both kinds of enemies, the overt and the surreptitious.