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
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
וּמָה הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר הוּא יֹשֵׁב בָּהּ הֲטוֹבָה הִוא אִם רָעָה . . .And how is the Land in which they dwell; ..
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This week’s parsha is Shlach. Shlach means ‘send’. Here we find the whole story of the 12 spies who were sent ahead of the Jewish people to scout ..
Written by Tal Segal
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 ..
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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
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 ..
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“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
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 ..
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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