Parshat Shelach: The Missing Species - Rabbi David Kaplan

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so it's our cells like this age 800 so it's a very interesting a very deep concept here that's mentioned by one of the commentaries it says like this it's in about seven lines from the top of the page if you find a please show the person next to you it's I'm pasuk starts out puzzle cough gimel 23 so when the spies go into the Land of Israel so they're going to bring back fruit and then it says like this via bow I'd knock alesco they come to a place called the creek or how does he translated the valley of eshkol okay buck resume Esham zamora the eshkol I love him I thought they'd take a cluster of grapes value so vamos we should I am they carry it with to put they carry with poles will mean are ammonium they take a pomegranate or may not am going to take a fig so the commentaries point out that it took 10 min 28 men here to carry the grapes because they're humongous grapes ten one man carried a pomegranate and one man carried a fig these are oversized fruits in the proud of the purpose of bringing back was then try to intimidate the Jewish people and make them think that the Payette lanza bunch of giants they're all of whom are are going to crush us if we go into the land and we're going to get it's not a good idea now one of the commentaries ask the following question or anything about you know anything about the land of israel is blessed with seven species and produce they have wheat and barley which are grains but then you have five types of fruit you have figs pomegranates grapes olives and dates so the commentaries ask well they brought back

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1. 0:13so it's our cells like this age 800 so it's a very interesting a very deep…
2. 0:44zamora the eshkol I love him I thought they'd take a cluster of grapes value so…
3. 1:15the Payette lanza bunch of giants they're all of whom are are going to crush us…
4. 1:45three species in Broadway grapes and they brought bags of figs and rode back but figgy…
5. 2:15carrying the grapes one is carrying the fig ones carrying a pop again all of which…
6. 2:45then that begs the further question why were they swell why would the Figgis so the…
7. 3:15when the Torah describes the Mun the Torah describes Amun in two ways it's described as…
8. 3:45olives in the oil how does it get into the money the money is a divine…
9. 4:15blessing that goes to the figs a specific blessing that goes to the to the pomegranates…
10. 4:45therefore they did not bring him back because it would this it would defeat the purpose…

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