Parsha Perspectives for Today (Shelach, 5781) - Never Hopeless

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

unfortunately it is in a string of parashots that do not reflect well on claw israel on the jewish people the jewish people at this stage are in their adolescence growing pains they are emerging and trying to mature as a people from safe herbaceous of family shemos we emerge as a nation we have our sacred charge the koanim konam and here in bamidbar as we are journeying through the desert which should have been a direct route into the land of israel we're also on as much as we are a physical geographic journey we are on a metaphysical spiritual journey of self-discovery the people are experiencing their um adolescence and growing into themselves as we've been doing all this year we're going to tap into the ishtar the beautiful insights of druk last week whenever was in boca he gave me a new copy of his save for ishtar met on by midbar just published now tough shin pay aleph a new expanded edition that has more divrei torah and will weave together divreitara from all over but including many from the aishtamin so he says the following the beginning where the torah tells us hashem spoke to motion he said send forth men and let them investigate the land that i'm giving to the jewish people one man from each of his father's tribe everyone a leader among them and rashir tells us rashi begins and describes slach who is the one who initiated who is the driver of this episode of the sending of the spies is this hashem's will is he the one who wants it is this the will of the people is moshe instigating why why do they send the head advanced spies to investigate the land so send for you god tells moshe according to your opinion

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