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Shelach - In a Moment | Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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the Ayash family, uh for refuah sheleimah for uh Eliyahu ben Mazal Fortuné and Chaim ben Frida, and for continued health for Chana bat Simcha Fega. So, let's begin. I wanted to share with you uh a beautiful uh concept, a beautiful idea, um that perhaps has a little bit interesting hashla'ot, interesting uh ways of understanding it, and outcomes that come that come from it. So, the pasuk tells us very interesting So, the pasuk tells us very interesting thing in the haftarah. We read all about in the parashah uh about how the Jewish people sent spies and how terribly that went. Comes the haftarah and tells you, "Well, well, Yehoshua takes over from Moshe Rabbenu, so what does he do? He sends spies." Now, this this should be shocking. Even if the man who's took over, his name is not Yehoshua. Even if his name is Rumpelstiltskin, this should be a shocking feature, right? But Yehoshua was actually one of right? But Yehoshua was actually one of the 12 spies. He actively and actually was watching when a group of great people flipped. Rashi tells us an amazing line. He says, when the when the spies were chosen, um it says they were anashim. Usually, the word anashim means important, good men. And Rashi says, comments on it, "Otasha at that hour, sherim ayu, they were holy. So, they were proper they did the

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  1. 0:31the Ayash family, uh for refuah sheleimah for uh Eliyahu ben Mazal Fortuné and Chaim ben
  2. 3:36that's owned by Rahab, who doesn't have the choicest of jobs. She is known as the
  3. 6:42there's ein Elohim bakhol ha'aretz ki'im b'Yisrael." There's no god on earth other than Israel. but
  4. 9:48not only did she have, excuse me, the Midrash Rabbah says, that not only did she
  5. 12:53But I think the answer is understood in two parts. The first part is an understanding
  6. 16:32Just wrap your head around that for a minute. My friends, such is the power of
  7. 19:35what that did in Israel. Avi, I'm sure you remember. This is the man. He was
  8. 23:11Cuz how did I quote to you the pasuk? She says Everyone's terrified. Excellent. So Nathan
  9. 26:19statement that she did not know. The proof that it was t'shuvah me'ahavah is the fact
  10. 29:29Winds up becoming fuel. Winds up becoming force. Translated uh into uh into how far it

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