All posts in: Shelach
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7 years agoWhy wouldn’t Chezky go on any dates, and what does it have to do with the spies?
Appoint for yourself men, and they will spy on the Land of Canaan (13:2) Chezky was a good learner in Yeshiva; he kept the mitzvos stringently and had been offered ..
Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
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3 years agoShelach: Feelings are real, but they aren’t reality
Shelach: Feelings are real, but they aren’t reality “Feelings are real, but they aren’t reality”, I found this quote recently and I think its profound. In Shelach ..
Written by Rabbi Aryeh Dachs
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3 years agoShelach – How to see the holiness of Eretz Yisroel
וּמָה הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר הוּא יֹשֵׁב בָּהּ הֲטוֹבָה הִוא אִם רָעָה . . .And how is the Land in which they dwell; ..
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7 years ago
Why such a severe punishment(s) for the sin of the spies?
The majority of our sedra discusses the infamous sin of the spies; the delegates from each tribe who were sent to report about the Land and ended up slandering the Land ..
Written by d fine
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7 years ago
“About-Face”
It is mind-boggling to contemplate the abrupt about-face on the part of the Jewish people. At the beginning of the parsha, they were planning to enter and miraculously ..
Written by Oizer Alport
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7 years ago
Why here is there a link??
“Livnay Yosef Livnay Menashe”. Why was Yosef’s name mentioned in conjunction with Menashe and not earlier when mentioning the spy from Shevet Ephraim, ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
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7 years ago
Good intentions?
Kulam anashim – kol anashim sheb’mikra lashon chashivus v’osa sha’ah k’sheirim hayu (Rashi) Rashi writes (13:3) that at the time the spies were sent, they ..
Written by Oizer Alport
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7 years ago
Why did moshe not daven for Kalev?
Before the Meraglim left on their mission to Eretz Yisroel, Moshe changed Yehoshua’s name and davened for him to be saved from the Meraglim. Kalev on the other ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
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7 years ago
Camouflage
“And Moshe called Hoshea, the son of Nun, Yehoshua” (BeMidbar 13:16). The Gemara explains that by adding the Hebrew letter Yud to the beginning of Hoshea’s ..
Written by Howard Jackson
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7 years ago
Whats the Connection between being michalel shabbos and tzitzis
At the end of the Parsha we find the MiKoshes Eitzin being Michalel Shabbos and then immediately following this is the Parsha of Tzitzis. The Vilna Gaon offers an explanation ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
