Sin Of The Spies

Eretz Yisrael in the Parsha:

Rectifying the Sin of the Spies

Young religious Zionist Torah scholars find connections to the Holy Land in the week's Torah portion.

Commentators weigh in on the Sin of the Spies

Was their sin lack of faith in God, was it a provocation, was it their fear of having to fight - or a combination?

The power of one word

Where did the spies go wrong?

Jacob's ladder is Jacob himself!

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.

Spy News - don't believe it

Stop believing the descendants of the 10 wicked spies! This is not 'a land that consumes its inhabitants.' Israel is amazing. Op-ed.

Dance to the beat of creativity

Shlach (Diaspora): Why were the spies condemned for reporting the facts?

Eretz Yisrael in Parashat Shlach: Rebellion!

Young religious Zionist Torah scholars search for connections to the Holy Land in the weekly Torah reading.

Conversation in the desert

The twelve men chosen to reconnoitre the Promised Land in a heart to heart (imagined) conversation.

Bikurim-Rectification of the Sin of the Spies

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.

Shlach: When to confront and when to lay low

Do not feed a false fire. It will only grow stronger.

Why were they punished so severely for the sin of the spies?

Young religious Zionist Torah scholars on the parasha: The spies led to a rebellion against God and against Eretz Yisrael simultaneously.

Rabbi Melamed:

Correcting the Sin of the Spies in our generation

The sin of the Spies lay in their misconception that faith is revealed in miracles, while nature is alienated from faith

Shlach: Holiness of Earth and Air

Do the sections following the Sin of the Spies - Temple wine libations and tzitzit - have any connection with the story of the spies?

Shlach: Connected to the Land of Israel

Thirty years before the Exodus, a vast contingent of Ephraimites left Egypt because they had miscalculated the end-time for Egyptian exile.

Shlach: The spies and the First Fruits

Farmers bringing their First Fruits to the Temple know what the Spies did not relate to.

Shlach: Testing God

The people’s relationship with the Creator was dysfunctional and it seems they did not share Hs program for their future.

The leaders' silence and its punishment

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.

Rebellion against God and against Eretz Yisrael

'Torah of Eretz Yisrael' from Religious Zionist yeshiva students: The sin of the spies was their perspective on what they saw in the Land.

A cause to weep for generations

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.