The Power of Speech! #ai #leprosy #lashonhara #gossip #slander #speech #powerofspeech #animation

The Torah teaches us about a very complex disease which is called Sarat, leprosy. This is not the disease we know today. It was a special spiritual disease that God would send to punish a person who spoke lash gossip. Yes, when a person spoke badly about others, special marks would sometimes appear on their body. But because God is merciful and wants the person to repent, he wouldn't punish them directly on their body. Instead, the blemish would begin on the walls of their home. Suddenly different colors would appear on the walls. After that, if the person didn't repent, those blemishes would come upon their clothing. If they repented, good. But if not, only then would God punish them on their body. How would they know if it was truly tarat and not just dirt? They went to the cohen, the priest. The priest would come and examine the signs whether the hair and the blemish had turned white, whether the blemish was deeper than the surrounding skin,