Our Torah Parsha this Shabbos HaGadol , which is the Shabbos before Passover , is Parashas Metzora . HaShem Continues with the Laws of Tzaraas and here , discusses how purification from it takes place . HaShem Teaches what offerings are to be brought , how the process takes place and exactly what the Kohein needs to do . The Torah portion then goes on to discuss Tzaraas in houses . This can only occur in Eretz Yisroel . HaShem In His Mercy Wants To Try And Avoid Striking the person directly first with Tzaraas So HaShem In His Mercy Strikes the person's belongings and house first . Should the Kohein come and find Tzaraas in the house , he instructs first that the owner remove all his belongings from the house and only then declares the house Tamei - Contaminated . This was quite embarrassing for the owner to have all his wares displayed on a public street . One of the reasons for this is due to one of the Aveiras that causes Tzaraas on a house and that is dishonest miserliness , for this kind of Tzaraas can appear on the house of a person who may have been asked to lend a certain thing or give Tzeddakah Charity and he denied having that thing or the Charity money asked for , not wanting to help his fellow and now , all will see that he had what he denied he had, thus a punishment for miserliness . Everything we own actually is HaShem's , not ours And When HaShem Blesses us with things or money , we must not just think to keep it for ourselves , but we must realize the wonderful opportunity That HaShem Is Giving us , to Give to others . Other Aveiras that brings this Tzaraas, are Loshon Horah and Chas Ve Shalom denying the Truth That HaShem Runs the World And Is Responsible For All our Blessings , not us . HaShem In His Mercy And Kindness , Gives Mercifully even to the one who makes an Aveirah and genuinely repents , for even HaShem's Punishment , Is His Blessing in disguise , set to put us on correcting ourselves so that we can enter Shamayim . We see here in The Punishment That HaShem Metes out on a house was a blessing in disguise , for when the Kohein would come and scrape off the Tzaraas in the house and cut away bricks , stone and mortar , they found riches and valuables hidden in the walls , left by the previous Canaanite dwellers who had hidden their treasures in the walls of the houses ( and even in the fields ) when they knew we were coming home to Israel , our gift From HaShem and so , these got found and the repentant found himself wealthy . A Lesson for us , That Even When HaShem Punishes us , it is for the good , to bring us back to Him and receive His Brochas and the greatest Brocha is to be near to Him . The Laws of Tzaraas in houses go on to tell us how the house is purified and under what cases a house has to be totally demolished and all the Laws related to it . HaShem Then Discusses human impurity again in the form of ritual impurity from the human body and discusses the Zav and Baal Keri , male discharges and its contamination , where the baal keri refers to seminal discharge and the Zav , which is similar to but not the same as semen and as Rambam says , that it comes from a malfunction in the body where it had collected . Torah discusses these contaminations and their period of impurity and cleansing . Torah then discuuses the Niddah , the period of a woman every month - going back to the original Aveirah of Chava , so in essence , every woman suffers for that Aveirah of Chava , who was humanity's Mother , for every woman has a part of Chava within her , down the generations . The Niddah and its Laws and other blood flows and its impurity and how to purify herself , is discussed . The Laws of Niddah and Family Purity are the basis of a pure Jewish home , bringing HaShem's Shechinah Into the Jewish home and the continuation of Holy Jewish Children , brought up from the very beginnings of conception , in holiness and purity , the life intended for every Jew . When we go back to the time when our Jewish ancestors encamped in the Wilderness , it was our modesty and family purity that kept helping to save us . I refer to when Bilaam wanted to curse our people , yet could not For HaShem OverSaw us and our pure and miodest moral ways then . Bilaam himself referred to our purity when he spoke of how we then , in each family tent ensured that we would never put the opening of each fanily tent , facing the opening of the neighboring family tent , so as to ensure that what was between a couple , remained pure and modest and only between them . Bilaam himself referred to this in his words , " Mah Tovu Ohalecha Yaakov , Mishkenotecha Yisrael , " - " How Goodly are your tents , O Jacob , your dwelling places , O Israel . " ( Bamidbar Numbers 24 : 5 . which we say every morning in our Davening Prayers . Thus family purity is a shield against Ein Horah , the Evil Eye , which often comes from jealousy and coveting by another . Why is it only one eye in this saying , when we humans have two eyes . That is because even though the person who commits this bad act has the opportunity to look at things with both eyes open looking at the truth of how things are , they unfortunately choose to cast an eye aside to their own negative closed view of coveting and jealousy and so , they do not see the full picture of how things really are and that what each person has , is part and parcel of what each person needs in their Spiritual journey to HaShem and so this person that does this bad action , only sees part of the picture and not the whole picture and it is as if they are only looking through the tunnel vision of one eye . So family purity is a sweet pathway to HaShem . We note that in Bereishis 2 : 25 , when HaShem brought Chava to Adam , HaShem Puts In Torah , " Vayiheyu Shneihem Arumim HaAdam Ve Ishto Velo Yitboshashu , " - " They were both naked , the man and his wife and they were not ashamed , " for only between the closed doors of a couple can they openly share themselves with each other in modesty and not to the outside world , which would be shameful . So ends the Parsha . The usual Haftorah for Parashas Metzora , would usually be 2 Kings 7 : 3 - 20 , talking also of the lepers Gechazi and his 3 sons , that we mentioned last week , in relation to the Parsha of the Metzora who spoke Loshon Horah , the main reason for this punishment of Tzaraas . Gechazi as mentioned before , slandered his master Elisha the Prophet and also tried to take for himself what he was instructed not to take and so he and his three sons were stricken with Tzaraas , a link to the Parsha . But seeing as this Shabbos is Shabbos HaGadol , the special Shabbos directly before Pesach , the very day HaShem Commanded us to take the lamb , on this special Shabbos , many communities have the Minhag Custom , to read Malachi 3 : 4 - 24 , reminding us to remember Moshe and the Laws from HaShem and How HaShem Wants To Give us in abundance . Passover , is a time HaShem Gave us our freedom , And Put us in the Path of His Laws through Moshe after HaShem Redeemed us . This Haftorah also discusses the coming of Eliyahu Ha Navi at the End of Days , the Final Redemption and we are reminded of Moshe at the Burning Bush , when he was Told by HaShem , Who to say Sent him . The fact that Hashem Told him to only say part of HaShem's Name Reference , showed Moshe that our removal from Mitzrayim , would not be the final redemption on Passover , and this Haftorah is thus an apt one for it refers to the Final Redemption , May it come soon in our days . Other communities have the Minhag to only acknowledge Shabbos HaGadol if it comes on Erev Pesach and so they read the HaFtorah of 2 Kings 7 : 3 - 20 only as their Haftorah . Each should follow his or her Minhag . One of the main reasons for Tzaraas , is Loshon Horah , Slanderous talk about another . This is a terrible Aveirah , one that even caused us to lose our Temple over causing groundless hatred for our fellow . As we near Passover , The Festival of Freedom , we need to learn to free ourselves from that which destroys . Loshon Horah Slander destroys more than just the one spoken about . Speaking Slander , ruins three people , The perpetrator of the Loshon , the one listening to the Loshon and the one spoken about . To be truly free , is to be on the close path with HaShem . Such is true freedom . To make an Aveira of Loshon Horah , chains us to the negative , for such a person that Loshons , ties themselves to the negative untrue paths of slanderous talk , which pulls the perpetrator of it into more and more negative thinking of others . To be truly free as we were after leaving Egypt on Passover , is to emulate HaShem's Ways Of Honestly and seeing the best in others . To slander others is to seek ruin , Chas Ve Shalom , of HaShem's Beautiful World . We should always seek life and light and travel always on HaShem's Path toward HaShem . Shlomo Ha Melech said very distinctly in Mishlei that ' Life and Death are in the power of the tongue ( Midrash Vayikra - Rabbi Weissman ). ' We can kill more people with a word then with a sword . A sword can only kill one person at a time that is close but a word can destroy many at once , and even those very far away . HaShem Creates all people and when we Chas Ve Shalom go and slander another person , as I mentioned in the last Parshah writing that I did , that it is as though we are trying to recreate , Chas Ve Shalom , that other person in a way we negatively want to perceive them , just for our own arrogance . This is a very terrible Aveirah and one of the easiest to commit . HaShem Made the tongue as one of the easiest moving muscles , for a good reason so that we can easily gain Kavod by speaking Holy Words of Torah to bring HaShem's Shechinah down to this World ( Midrash Vayikra - Rabbi Weissman ). To use the tongue for a negative reason , completely goes against the very purpose of HaShem in Allowing us a Tongue and Speech - to make this World a home for HaShem . HaShem Secured the tongue behind teeth and the walls of the mouth and gums , as a deterrent to keep it in check . We should only speak and use the power of speech , for holy purposes . To do otherwise , is to go against Creation , Chas Ve Shalom . We all are here , out of Gan Eiden and in this World , suffering , because of the Aveirah of Loshon Horah , where the Nachash - Snake , with Samael within , slandered HaShem to Chavah and was punished by having its tongue split and being forced as its food, to eat the very dust that is likened to its negativity , of what it spoke . Loshon Horah , also led to Doeg slandering David ( Midrash Vayikra - Rabbi Weissman ), to King Saul , and thus having Doeg kill 85 of the Priests at Nov , including the Head Kohein Achimelech , for a lie Doeg told . Doeg was to never be given redemption . Loshon Horah has ruined many lives and shows as I mentioned a great arrogance . Torah is a way to control its pull . Studying Torah keeps a person on a higher Madreiga - Level , thus keeping them occupied with Holier pursuits and also keeps them from being idle , when the tongue likes to flap . Within the word " Metzora ," is the Hebrew word ' Tzar , ' which means enemy , oppressor , trouble and a rock ( Shilo dictionary ) . How deeply descriptive is our meaning now . Thus Loshon Horah is a great enemy to us , bringing oppressors upon us and bringing trouble and distress to many and is cold and hard without feeling like a stone . When we Loshon , we ca not see the whole picture , so thus our view of another person is worth nothing , For Only HaShem Sees the Whole Picture . So our maligned view of another is only a cold hard unknowing one , with no emotions for another , just like a rock or stone . Only HaShem Can Decide On others , not us . We must be there to guide and help , not to put others down . We must Emulate HaShem in every way and be a helping hand to others and never use others to step on so we can try to get higher in a wrong way . Such people that stand on others to get ahead , accomplish nothing but humiliation . As the Slanderer isolates others , So Does HaShem's Punishment for Loshon Horah , isolate the perpetrator of Loshon Horah . HaShem Wants us to be pure holy individuals, pure from within , shining to the outside . How we treat others , is the path to how we are treated in return . If we go out of our way to slander others and ruin others to make ourselves feel good , HaShem Responds By Humbling us . But if we give people the benefit of the doubt , trying every possible way to find a good reason for what another may do , So Can HaShem Also Give us Mercy And Try To Excuse what we do . Our Tongues must speak sweet words of holiness always , helping others rather than trying to destroy them . Instead of sullying our soul which shows on the body , rather purify the soul , so the body may shine . We also must keep our thoughts and selves clean and pure on the outside , walking with a humility and purity that shows our physical purity to others and not fall as some do , to the negative desires that bring a person down and so low , just as was the case in Mitzrayim at the time . Our Body is our Temple and it houses our soul from HaShem , so it must at all times be kept Pure and unsullied by the physical desires that destroys the World . Let us never forget that our body is to be a home for HaShem To Dwell Within and so must be Pure and Holy and Spiritually and Physically Clean always . Let us all be a vessel to hold the Light Of HaShem and speak words always of Sweetness and Holiness and Light and let that Light Shine out of us and our physicality in Purity as we live our life as Vessels For HaShem . With deep love to HaShem , I wish HaShem With Forever And Eternal Love , A Beautiful Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest Love and Chag Pesach Sameach with Deepest Love and to all of my fellow Jews , a Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and a Chag Pesach Sameach with love . Blessed Shabbos Kodesh with love to all of HaShem's Creation .