Embarrassing another Individual

General statements on the value of embarrassment: Nedarim 20a
Embarrassment keeps people from sinning: Nedarim 20a
Embarrassment aids in atonement: Berachot 12b; Megillah 25b
Practices established during burial to prevent embarrassment of certain groups: Moed Katan 27a-b
Giving Charity in public, embarrassing the recipient: Chagigah 5a
Would a person prefer a less-painful death or a less-shameful death, given the choice: Sotah 8a-b
A person's shame is heightened if he is generally ragged, and he wears only one nice item: Sotah 8b
The embarrassment felt by a person who needs to beg: Berachot b
Case where a room's support beam split due to a Torah Scholar's embarrassment in a debate: Bava Metzia 20b
The women would borrow clothing from each other when going to dance on the 15th of Av and Yom Kippur, to prevent embarrassment of those who didn't have: Taanit 26b, 31a
All of the clothing for the abovementioned rite was immersed to prevent embarrassment of girls who were menstruating: Taanit 31a
Rabban Gamliel ordered that his Burial Shrouds be Flax, so poorer people wouldn't be embarassed: Moed Katan 27b, Ketuvot 8b
Earning long life for not altering someone's name in calling him, even non-insultingly: Megillah 27b, 28a
Earning long life for not benefitting from another's shame: Megillah 28a
We learn from Tamar's refusal to identify Yehudah outright that it would be better for a person to be exposed to a fiery furnace than for him to humiliate someone else in public: Sotah 10b
Sensitivity in one's conduct in a cemetery: Berachot 18a

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