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their many good deeds. In order to demonstrate this point, at the End of
Days, the barren trees will actually give fruit.
One who speaks lashon hara is afflicted with tzara’at. Rashi comments
that after one’s house is afflicted and he consequently demolishes it, he
will find treasures in its walls. Why does he merit this?
Certainly, the primary purpose of demolishing the house is because of the “The Kohen shall command; and for the person
tumah of tzara’at. This serves as a punishment for one who slanders. being purified there shall be taken two live, pure
Notwithstanding, Hashem arranges that he should then find the treasures
hidden by the Amorites as compensation. birds, cedar wood, a crimson [tongue of] wool,
and hyssop. The Kohen shall command; and the
one bird shall be slaughtered into an
earthenware vessel over spring water. The live
bird, he shall take it and the cedar wood and the
crimson [tongue of] wool and the hyssop, and he
shall dip them and the live bird into the blood of
the bird that was slaughtered over the spring
water. Then he shall sprinkle seven times upon
the person being purified from the tzara’at; he
shall purify him, and he shall set the live bird
free upon the open fields”
(Vayikra 14:4-7)