Quoting%20commentary for Bava Batra 328:16

אמר רב עמרם אמר רב שלש עבירות אין אדם ניצול מהן בכל יום הרהור עבירה ועיון תפלה ולשון הרע לשון הרע סלקא דעתך

his blame.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'evil'. By pointing to a person's good actions or qualities attention is inevitably directed to his bad actions and qualities also. ');">⁵³</span> R. Amram said in the name of Rab: [There are] three transgressions which no man escapes for a single<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'every'. ');">⁵⁴</span> day: Sinful thought,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Usually applied to unchaste or immoral thoughts. ');">⁵⁵</span> calculation on [the results of] prayer,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] 'contemplation. Or speculation in prayer'. Hence either (a: as elsewhere), 'devotion in prayer' (cf. Pe'ah, I); Or (b: as here). 'speculation on the result of prayer', 'expectation of the immediate grant of one's request'. The offence lies in the presumption of the claim that God must answer prayer of any kind whatsoever; v. Abrahams, I., Pharisaism and Gospels, II, 78ff. ');">⁵⁶</span> and slander.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] Lit., 'evil speech'. ');">⁵⁷</span> 'Slander'? [How] could one imagine [such a thing]!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely it is quite possible to avoid slandering one's fellows! ');">⁵⁸</span>

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