Holy Temptations | Mr. Charlie Harary

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The opening of this shiur, in Vayimaen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Picture the scene. Klal Yisroel on the banks of Eretz Yisroel, waiting to hear from their leaders what will be with the conquest of the Promised Land? The leaders show up, twelve of the greatest people of the generation, and ten stand, basically, and say there's no chance. Walled cities, giants, ארץ אוכלת יושביה It ain't happening, there's no way we're going to be able to do this. Except for two people. Imagine how hard that was for Yehoshua and Kalev. And the pasuk speaks about it later on, right after the event. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, Hashem looks over and says, Wow, עבדי כלב, my Kalev. Wait, what? How did Hashem forget Yehoshua? Imagine you're walking down the street, you and your friend, and you hear, God forbid, a fire burning in a building, and people are screaming. And the two of you run in and you call the fire department, and you open up a stairwell and you save people's lives, and you save the day. And then a month later, the city gives you an award,

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1. 0:07Picture the scene. Klal Yisroel on the banks of Eretz Yisroel, waiting to hear from their…
2. 0:39HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, Hashem looks over and says, Wow, עבדי כלב, my Kalev. Wait, what?…
3. 1:10and the mayor gets up and he goes: I want to tell you what heroism really…
4. 1:41of being called עבדי? Right? Moshe, כי עבד נאמן קראת לו. You don't get a bigger…
5. 2:11So when the עצת, when the advice of the Meraglim started, Yehoshua wasn't even tempted by…
6. 2:42But you see my Kalev? He was tempted, he wanted it, his desires were burning for…
7. 3:12that desire to do that, to see that, to go that way, to not be with…

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