All posts in: Shelach

• Shelach

  7 years ago

  Paperweight measures

  One of the claims the spies made upon returning back to base was that the inhabitants of Eretz Yisrael were ‘anshei middos’ (13:32), which is normally translated ..

  Written by d fine
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• Shelach

  7 years ago

  Spiritual Espionage

  The whole episode of the spies which dominates this week’s parsha is one of the most troubling sections in the Torah. The explanation of exactly what happened ..

  Written by Andrew Savage
• Shelach

  7 years ago

  Tzitzis; the reminder before mobile phones!

  You’ll notice that twice in the psukim which deal with tzitzis does it say that the tzitzis are so that we remember HaShem’s mitzvos. In perek 15 pasuk 39 the words ..

  Written by d fine
• Shelach

  7 years ago

  Realising your own value.

  “And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their seight” Bamidbar 13:33 A lesson can be learnt from the mistake of the spies, as brought ..

  Written by Jonny Cohen
• Shelach

  7 years ago

  Wow, it looks like the sea!

  The pasuk tells us that the techeiles string on the tzitzis is central to the reminding function of the tzitzis. How? For the gemarra (Menachos 43b, cited by the Ibn Ezra ..

  Written by d fine
• Shelach

  7 years ago

  So whats your story, how will it end?

  Before reading this vort bear two things in mind! 1.The spies were kosher Jews at the time they set out (Rashi, Bamidbar 13:3). 2.Don’t trust in yourself until ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose
• Shelach

  7 years ago

  Shlach: A Drasha for a Sheva Brachos

  First of all, we must remember that even when you know how wonderful the Kallah is and her family is, you have to check “Hashemeinah hee im Razah.” (For ..

  Written by B -Havolim
• Prayer

  7 years ago

  The Brocho on Tzitzis

  One of the first things a male Jew does in the morning is to put on Tzitzis. Part of the Mitzvah is to recite the brocha Al Mitzvas Tzitzis. However unlike most ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Shelach

  7 years ago

  Kolev Prayed for Himself

  “And he came to Chevron”. Why does the Torah write “And he came to Chevron” in the singular, when it is referring to all the spies, as is evident, ..

  Written by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler
• Shelach

  7 years ago

  what’s connection between tzitzis and the shabbos desecrator?!?!?

  At the end of parshas Shelach Lecha, we have the incident with the mekoshesh, in which a man is found deliberately desecrating Shabbes and is put to death as a result. ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose