“The rabbis interpret "leprosy" the skin disease described in this weeks Torah reading, as a punishment for speaking Lashon Hara, (Derogatory Speech)”
Why does a person talk evil about somebody else? What is his sickness? In what part of his kishkes is he sick? According to the Maharal, what is sick is that he can’t keep a secret. He sees someone do something wrong, and he can’t keep it to himself. A person who has no vessels to keep a secret is not a whole human being. What is the holiness of a human being? The holiness is that a human has a body which shows, and a soul which is secret. Life depends on the secret of the soul being in the body. That is the essence of human life. What is the essence of the world? G-d, who is not showing. Someone who can’t keep a secret cuts himself off from his soul, cuts himself off from
G-d.
The more real something is, the less you can prove it and the less you can see it. The more real something is, the more important it is to you. The most important things in your life are things you cannot put your finger on, things which are completely secret. If you talk evil, that means you are not from that secret world. You are an outsider to life, a complete outsider to the world, and a complete outsider to your own soul. The most anti-G-d is the person who cannot keep secrets. What is the holiness of G-d? Why do you feel close to G-d? G-d keeps secrets. Everybody loves G-d because He really keeps secrets. G-d has a million ways of telling everybody what I do and what I don’t do, but He keeps it all secret.
