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(810) 645-1770 FAX: (810) 645-2068 275 E. Frank • Birmingham, MI 48009 Advertising in the Jewish News gets results. Place your ad today! Call (810) 354-6060 f all the diseases known to the human family, the most dreaded disease in the Middle East is that of leprosy. Leprosy is a strange disease. Ancient medicine classified many diseases recognized by the mod- ern dermatologists as leprosy. But leprosy is well-known today and is just as feared as it ever was. Leprosy is thought to be in- fectious and contagious. Scripture tells us that the lep- er was segregated from the an- cient camp of the Israelites and kept outside in an isolation unit. The leper was unclean; men might not come near him; he was defiled and impure. He was un- fit for society. In those days, leprosy was re- garded as a punishment for a moral crime, and that moral crime was slander. The rabbis taught that the slanderer is a moral leper and should find no place within the camp of Israel. Like leprosy, slander com- mences almost imperceptibly. It starts with gossip, prattle, idle talk. Such gossip is not intended with any malignant purpose but merely for the purpose of con- versation. But the disease grows and the fine dust of calumny gathers more and more. Words become bitter, more caustic, like arrows dipped in venom. Words of slander become like poisoned darts which not only inflict a wound but make it incurable. Like leprosy, slander is conta- gious. Scandal spreads like wild- fire. It spreads from lip to lip, from house to house, with no re- gard for a person's name or rep- utation. Like the proverbial rolling ball of snow, it gathers mo- mentum as each person repeats in exaggerated style what he heard from the last person. The story is told of a person who slandered a friend only to find out later that what he said was not true. Troubled by his con- science, he went to his rabbi for advice. "If you want to make peace with your conscience, you must fill a bag with feathers and go to every doorway in the village and drop at each one of them a feather." The man did as he was told and returning to the rabbi an- nounced he had done penance for his sin. "Not yet," replied the rab- bi. "Now take up your bag, go the Dr. Richard C. Hertz is the distinguished professor of Judaism at the University of Detroit-Mercy. same rounds again and gather every feather you have dropped." "But," exclaimed the man, "the wind has blown them all away by this time." "Exactly," said the rab- bi. "And so it is with gossip and slander. Words are easily dropped, but no matter how hard you try you can never get them back again." Slander hurts three people. It ruins the slanderer; it weakens his moral character; it robs him or her of the fine qualities of man- hood or womanhood. Secondly, it ruins the listener; it weakens his moral character because he is willing to be a party to the spreading of malicious gossip. Thirdly, it obviously ruins the one who is maligned. For whether there be any truth or not, the per- son maligned is done an injustice. He is not even present to defend himself or to speak the truth. The disease of slander is so great that it often takes years to cauterize and cure it. Sometimes it strikes even when seemingly dead. Shabbat Tazria: Leviticus 12:1 - 13:59 Numbers 28:9 -15 Exodus 12:1 - 20 Ezekiel 45:16 - 46:18. Once, a cobra somehow got into a church in India while peo- ple were gathered for worship. Someone saw it and quietly cut off the snake's head with his knife. After the service, the peo- ple found the reptile. A native touched the dead head with his bare foot; in an hour he was dead. The poison in the fangs had the power to kill even though the snake was dead. Similarly, the slanderer's sus- picions continue to exert their evil influence long after those who contributed to spreading the slan- der have ceased to exist. Our world is reaping the har- vest of seeds of hate, distrust and suspicion sown only a few years ago. Slander is wrong whether it is slander of another nation, slan- der of a fellow citizen or slander of a neighbor. In these times of heightened tension, the temptation to be a party to slander is almost over- whelming. Equally important, therefore, is the challenge to mas- ter ourselves and get, in the words of Ezekiel, "a new heart." Pray God that the whole world