As in the case of loshon hora, one must do his best to ignore someone who is about to begin or has already begun to speak rechilus. If someone begins talking of how one person has wronged another, to willfully listen as he continues to speak is, according the the Chofetz Chaim, in violation of “Do not accept a false report” (Shemos 23:1). Just as it is lowly to speak gossip, so too it is not befitting a respectable human being to listen to gossip.
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