And if despite all your efforts you’re still loaded with negatives, be happy, since you are such a: לֵׂ ב נִ שְ בַׁ ר broken heart, which has tremendous value. Chazal say that whoever speaks Lashon Hara deserves to be thrown to dogs. We can suggest that since a Baal Lashon Hara speaks evil to get attention from people and he loves Kavod, therefore we show him just the opposite.
People like to show how smart they are, and how they are knowledgeable and wise, and up to date and “with it”, and not a Bat’lan (loafer) or a fool, etc., so they speak Lashon Hara. A person who has no self-esteem wants to put others down, so he’ll come out bigger than the person he’s speaking about.
So the Torah puts him in his place. A dog is a symbol of lowliness and inferiority; a zero. And Chazal describe Lashon Hara with the Passuk: לֹׁא תִשָא שֵּמַע שָוְא משפטים כג א do not bear a report of: שָוְא, which means “vain”’ a total waste with no Tachlis; to teach that the Baal Lashon Hara is total emptiness and a low-life.
Imagine how much Schar and greatness is due to a person who refrains from Lashon Hara and speaks words of Torah and Chesed. How much unending greatness?
