Shlach - Facing Our Fear of Greatness

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

You're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Goldwag recorded with Hashem's never-ending assistance in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel 5784 2024. This week's parsha is parsha Shlach. And in our parsha, we have the story of Moshe Rabbeinu sending the spies to Eretz Yisrael to seek out the land, to see its beauty, to see the weaknesses of our enemies, and they would return and they report a negative report, and they say that we can't do it, Hashem can't do it. Maybe Hashem was able to defeat the Egyptians, but there's just too many people to to defeat in the land of Israel. We can't do it. The Jewish people cried, became known as the day of Tisha B'Av, which before the onset of what we're going to speak about, it's important to notice and point out that both Shiva Asar B'Tammuz, which was the day when the Jewish people served the golden calf, and the ninth of Av, which is the day that was decreed upon us that we would be in the wilderness for 40 years, had the potential to be amazing days. Really, you know, where we're soon we'll be heading in in just a few weeks, two to three weeks, to the time that represents the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash, the Temple, which goes back really to those original sins of the golden calf and the sin of the spies. But those were days Moshe Rabbeinu came down on Yom Kippur with the Tammuz with the with the Luchos. It's supposed to be a day of

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2. 2:36And how we can work on this idea and try to reverse the mistake that was…
3. 5:43"If they'll if the people of the land will notice that the Jews are there, so…
4. 8:17were dying. And instead of recognizing that it was a sham's gocha to show them this…
5. 11:22us. Think that Hakadosh Baruch Hu can't be mashgiach, doesn't have the ability to give us…
6. 14:24a It's an amazing positive situation Sham creates for us that we think we can't handle.…
7. 17:02We shift from what happened by Yam Suf, which which was the moment of salvation that…
8. 20:10You had the moment for the moment you had it an opportunity for eternal life. And…
9. 22:44relationship with with Hashem at that level meant death. That's why they chose to create, this…
10. 25:56well, and they become better. But it it's scary. Like when you experience a miracle, you…

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