ספר ויקרא

Leviticus 14,34. “I will give (inflict) an eruptive plague upon ‎the house that has become your ancestral possession.” ‎The reader is referred to Rashi who sees in this verse good ‎tidings for the owner of such a house. This is because the plague ‎of tzoraat which requires the owner to tear down the whole ‎house will reveal treasures buried underneath by the previous ‎owner, amounting to far more in value than the whole house is ‎worth.‎We must remember the rule that the true joy man ‎experiences is when he elevates the “fallen” sparks from the ‎‎Shechinah bringing them to the level of serving their ‎Creator. When he succeeds in doing that, the spirituality ‎contained within these “sparks” elevates not only the spirituality ‎that is part of him, but even has a sublimating, spiritually ‎elevating effect on the parts of him that are secularly oriented, ‎known as his ‎חצוניות‎, so that he is enabled to discard that part of ‎himself.‎Once he has succeeded in getting rid of this essentially ‎physical part, his house is liable to develop a ‎נגע‎, i.e. the evil ‎smelling residue of what remains of the physicality that has been ‎transported to spiritually higher regions.‎When the Torah in our verse speaks of the house’s exterior ‎suddenly displaying signs of a plague, this is nothing other than ‎the evil smelling residue left behind in their house after the ‎Israelites had fulfilled G’d’s commandment (Deuteronomy 20,16) ‎not to allow any of the Canaanite residents to survive. When ‎‎Rashi speaks of this verse containing glad tidings for the ‎Jewish people, he refers to their joyful discovery that the sparks ‎themselves had left (for spiritually higher regions)?‎