Semuchim M'yad - Connecting Parshas Shelach With the End of Parshas Behaaloscha

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Okay, good morning, friends. Shalom aleichem, baruchim haba'im. Welcome everyone to the Friday show. We have amazing material today. Today's shiur I'm dedicating by my dear friend Reb Reuven Ashulov in loving memory of his mother Chaya Esther bas Tamara. Today is her yahrzeit. Began Eden temuneh chosah, she should be a melitz yosher for her family. Al bi askol tzaddik. >> [clears throat] >> We're going to begin today with the program Smuchim Meyuchad connecting Meyuchad, Smuchim Meyuchad. So this week, again, we are aided with the assistance of Rashi. Rashi classically says, "Lama nism'cha parshas meraglim parshas Miriam?" Why is the parsha of the spies juxtaposed to the story of Miriam who spoke lashon hara about Mosha? Be says Rashi, "Miriam was punished because she spoke lashon hara about her brother, and these wicked people, they saw what happened to Miriam, and they did not take musar, they did not learn from the the punishment of Miriam." The Baal HaTurim likewise explains, "Samach meraglim l'Miriam bishvil lashon hara she sipprah." Now, you could ask, "What could they have learned there from Miriam?" What are they speaking about? They're speaking about the land, Eretz Yisrael. So, even though it's holy, meiheichi teisi, there's an issur to speak Lashon Hara about a land, about Eretz Yisrael? Just be Eretz Yisrael, it's not a human being, it doesn't have feelings, it's not something that experiences shame. It's not a living person. So, what what exactly is the accusation of the against the Meraglim that they should have learned from Miriam what there's an issue to speak Lashon Hara about earth, about land, about dirt? So, in the past we explained as follows, that the same way we say that K'lal Yisrael and the Torah are one,

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1. 0:00Okay, good morning, friends. Shalom aleichem, baruchim haba'im. Welcome everyone to the Friday show. We have…
2. 1:02Meyuchad, Smuchim Meyuchad. So this week, again, we are aided with the assistance of Rashi. Rashi…
3. 2:05being, it doesn't have feelings, it's not something that experiences shame. It's not a living person.…
4. 3:06It's part of the essential fabric of the Jewish people. It's like speaking Lashon Hara on…
5. 4:06it's not just the miraglim didn't learn the lesson of Miriam, it's somehow the lashon hara…
6. 5:06out. Like the pasuk says, "Vayishlach oisam Mosha mimmidbar Paran." Another aspect of the juxtaposition of…
7. 5:37the parshiyos is that Behaaloscha ends at the Jewish people were encamped in midbar Paran, and…
8. 6:37sha'ah ksheirim hayu. Okay, who cares if they were kosher at that moment, but they were…
9. 7:37river. So, because Miriam waited for Moshe, the people waited for Miriam. But if you look…
10. 8:38she knew she trusted that the Nevua would come to fruition. That's the lesson the Meraglim…

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