{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Even Shlomo - Rav Shlomo Carlebach zt\"l on the Weekly Parsha","title":"Tazria/Metzora | Why Good People End Up Speaking Lashon Hara","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/3cdd2755\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1337,"description":"As Parshat Tazria–Metzora confronts the difficult reality of lashon hara, Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevra of Shirat David reveal a deeper and almost surprising truth: the one who speaks negatively is not small, but someone with a big soul.\nDrawing from the Mei HaShiloach and the Meor Einayim, Rav Shlomo explores why the Torah דווקא calls the metzora an “Adam” — the highest name for a human being. What emerges is a powerful insight: lashon hara often comes not from pettiness, but from deep disappointment — from people who wanted something very much and couldn’t bear when it didn’t come true.\nIn this shiur, Rav Shlomo traces the inner journey from unmet expectations to anger, and from anger to speech that wounds. He then uncovers the deeper תיקון of the metzora — not punishment, but space: stepping outside the noise of life to rediscover that the פנימיות never changed, that it’s only the “skin” that became hardened.\nFrom the role of hitbodedut and isolation, to the deeper meaning of tzaraat affecting דווקא the עור, this episode becomes a guide to softening again — to seeing ourselves and others not through disappointment, but through the lens of what we know they can be.\n----------\nFor more Shuirim and Music from Rav Shlomo Katz, visit: https://ravshlomokatz.com\nJoin Rav Shlomo Katz's WhatsApp Community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KHKOhhPaeHx5Kb74WL9L9a?mode=ems_copy_t\nCHAPTERS\n00:00 Opening and Sponsorship Announcements\n01:17 Shlomo Hamelech and Mastery of Tazria/Metzora\n03:29 Why the Torah Calls the Afflicted ‘Adam’\n06:58 Disappointment Leads to Anger and Lashon Hara\n08:51 Isolation and Hitbodedut as the Remedy\n12:40 The Skin Metaphor and the Meaning of Tzaraat\n20:42 Final Blessing: Softening Our Hardened Skins","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/d3SVaIKXEF93XK4_ilK05fjXLCTj3k1aPADC2mnDHjs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xZWEz/ZjMzOWZlZjgxZDEx/MTBmYTEzYTY2MTU0/Njg2MC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}