Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Shelach (Video 234)

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

Good evening. We have this office parsha shalach. Before I begin, I just want to acknowledge from the many many many well-wishers for my special birthday. David, your words were magnificent and outstanding and very moving and Garrison and Fort Myers, also your and Garrison and Fort Myers, also your good wishes were very special. May both of you and your families enjoy many birthdays ahead. I'd may have a This week's parsha parsha shalach ushers in the fact that they did not learn the miraglim who caused you see they were supposed to leave mitzrayim and go across the yam and go across the yam and go into Israel 11 days later. And at the end they had to go for 40 years crisscrossing the midbar because they came back after their sojourn to Eretz Israel to spy out the land and to be able to survey what they saw and what they saw and what they wanted to be able to bring back and it was criticized so that they had to be in the midbar they went for 40 days. They came back on Tisha B'Av >> [snorts] >> and I could as well who said all the people after they heard the report cried, I'll give them what to cry about. If they cried for nothing, and now I'm going to give them something to cry going to give them something to cry about. And indeed, the two but they make dash were both destroyed on Tisha B'Av. And the First World War was on Tisha B'Av and the commotion 1290 in England when all the Jews were expelled uh began on Tisha B'Av and it was a notorious terrible day for Claudia Israel. Now,

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1. 0:00Good evening. We have this office parsha shalach. Before I begin, I just want to acknowledge…
2. 5:09They spoke for 20 minutes when they got back and they reported to Kol Yisrael exactly…
3. 10:51The difference of that they came up by by Yalu Lahem. They came to them to…
4. 16:13my Torah, my dear forefathers, that I shouldn't fall in." So, Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky asked, "Why…
5. 21:51Devorah that they had also the power of nevuah. And by men, the Gemara says there…
6. 27:07where crunch time may be the moment of our failure. Now when it says by Yoshivu…
7. 32:45back to mitzrayim, they wouldn't be part of the army to have to fight in Eretz…
8. 37:51And okay, we understand that that's when we'll start having the mitzvahs of trumah and ma'aser…
9. 43:32the shmira is still there. And a person should wear tzitzis. And even though the Arizal…
10. 48:45But when they got into Israel then it was an unbelievable reaction at that time to…

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