Green Speech #17

Green Speech #17

Furthermore the root and very source that Loshon Hara causes an exile to the Jewish people, chases away the divine presence and prevents us from serving Hashem in our Temple and keeps us from living in Israel is the famous "sin of the spies"

This was the Torah's episode that before the Jewish people were about to enter (dwell) Israel for the 1st time after escaping Egypt and receiving the Torah, they sent a reconnaissance mission to spy out the land of Israel.

In truth, they didn't need to. Hashem had already assured them that he was taking care of them and that was the land that they should be. The spies got scared on their mission to Israel and came back with a scathing report that scared the Jewish people from wanting to move ahead and dwell in Israel. The night of the report, instead of preparing to go into Israel, they sat and cried.

That night of "crying" for no reason became Tish B Av-the national mourning day of the Jewish people. And the resulting punishment was that the Jewish people would now dwell in the desert for 40 years instead of dwelling in Israel. 

Here you see that Loshon Hara prevents us dwelling with Hashem in Israel and our Temple built.