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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)
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