The Nine Days, and Tisha B'Av in particular, are days in which we can reflect on our connection with the other citizens of Israel and Jews around the world.
There are currently more than 100,000 Israelis abroad, stranded in dozens of countries ever since this current war closed the airspace above Israel. Yet the overriding concern of all these Israelis abroad is how to come home despite the missiles from Iran.
It’s safer in the Beis Medrash. It’s safer in exile-mode. It’s spiritually cleaner to stay away from politics, from armies, from national responsibility. Just what the spies wanted.
Yes, the desert with its manna and Divine Presence is more conducive to spirituality but this is not the Divine goal. The goal of the Torah is to build the Kingdom of God in the earthly realm with all its challenges
The spies misunderstood the nature of their mission.
Young religious Zionist Torah scholars find connections to the Holy Land in the week's Torah portion.
Was their sin lack of faith in God, was it a provocation, was it their fear of having to fight - or a combination?
Where did the spies go wrong?
It is the will of Hashem, that a Jew be engaged in this physical world, and, in it, find a way to remain sanctified to Hashem.
Stop believing the descendants of the 10 wicked spies! This is not 'a land that consumes its inhabitants.' Israel is amazing. Op-ed.
Shlach (Diaspora): Why were the spies condemned for reporting the facts?
Young religious Zionist Torah scholars search for connections to the Holy Land in the weekly Torah reading.
The twelve men chosen to reconnoitre the Promised Land in a heart to heart (imagined) conversation.
Bringing bikurim conveys love of the Land and the realization that it is God’s gift to His nation. That message can still be felt today.
Do not feed a false fire. It will only grow stronger.
Young religious Zionist Torah scholars on the parasha: The spies led to a rebellion against God and against Eretz Yisrael simultaneously.
The sin of the Spies lay in their misconception that faith is revealed in miracles, while nature is alienated from faith
Do the sections following the Sin of the Spies - Temple wine libations and tzitzit - have any connection with the story of the spies?
Thirty years before the Exodus, a vast contingent of Ephraimites left Egypt because they had miscalculated the end-time for Egyptian exile.
Farmers bringing their First Fruits to the Temple know what the Spies did not relate to.
The people’s relationship with the Creator was dysfunctional and it seems they did not share Hs program for their future.
The silence of the elders of Israel widened the breach in the people’s trust in Moses and Aaron, leading to the sin of the Spies.
'Torah of Eretz Yisrael' from Religious Zionist yeshiva students: The sin of the spies was their perspective on what they saw in the Land.
Baseless hatred, is a reflection of the Sin of the Spies as was the refusal of Jews to come to Israel in the early days of Zionism.
