The 2 Paths in Jewish Leadership - The Chofetz Chaim on the Difference Between Yehoshua & Calev

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

Okay. >> Okay, friends. Good morning. Let's see if we could condense the Chofetz Chaim's take on the >> [snorts] >> difference between Yehoshua and Caleb. We know that Moshe Rabbeinu davened for Yehoshua. He added the letter yud and he said, "Call Yoshia me'atzas meraglim." And yet Moshe did not daven for Caleb. Why not? Why he daven for Caleb? By the way, yesterday we said a gishmak lamdus. The Michtav Sofer Shmuel says the whole motivation of the meraglim is they were afraid they were going to lose their nasi'us when they enter Eretz Yisrael because there would be a melech. Now, who would be the melech? From Shevet Yehudah. So, probably it would be Caleb. So, Caleb never had the bias to begin with. So, Moshe Rabbeinu knew he didn't have to daven for him. Anyway, but that's the kasha of the Chofetz Chaim. Why did Moshe daven for Yehoshua not for Caleb? And then later it says Caleb went to Chevron. He went to daven for himself. Why didn't Yehoshua go there? Also, it says at the end of the parsha, "V'avdi Caleb eikev hoyisa ruach acheres imi vayamalei acharayi." Why doesn't Why isn't Yehoshua praised in that way? He also opposed the meraglim. Says the Chofetz Chaim, there are two paths in Jewish leadership. There is the transparent overt clear path and then there's diplomacy. They're both valid. They're both legitimate. For example, let's say there are winds of bad ideology that you're contending with. And how do you deal with Let's say you're an association of people who have a bad or corrupt ideology and you need to somehow influence them or

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1. 0:00Okay. >> Okay, friends. Good morning. Let's see if we could condense the Chofetz Chaim's take…
2. 0:31Michtav Sofer Shmuel says the whole motivation of the meraglim is they were afraid they were…
3. 1:31overt clear path and then there's diplomacy. They're both valid. They're both legitimate. For example, let's…
4. 2:36diplomatic path, they each have a mylar and they have a casaran. The first path, the…
5. 3:36warmth begins to dissipate. However if you constantly fight them and you constantly offer your viewpoint…
6. 4:36report back that in agreement with them and then you could sort of stab them in…
7. 5:38Eretz Yisrael and Calev contemplated how should he accord himself and he decided to do echad…
8. 6:39Yehoshua and Echad Echad command the lesser army." So, Calev begins to speak up. V'chi zeh…
9. 7:41Sometimes Yeshua's mentioned before Caleb and sometimes Caleb's mentioned before Yeshua to say they're both school…
10. 8:42how you that's their conscious. You can't diamond for someone's spiritual success. As the Marshall says…

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