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Shelach Lecha Shabbat Mevarechim 17 June 2017 23 Sivan 5777 Shabbat ends London 10.27pm Jerusalem 8.29pm Volume 29 No. 38 Shelach Lecha Shabbat Mevarechim. Rosh Chodesh Tammuz is next Shabbat and Sunday Artscroll p.798 | Hertz p.623 | Soncino p.860 In memory of Harav Yisrael ben Harav Uriah “They arrived at the Valley of Eshkol and cut from there a vine with one cluster of grapes, and bore it on a double pole, and of the pomegranates and of the figs” (Bemidbar 13:23). 1 Sidrah Summary: Shelach Lecha 1st Aliya (Kohen) – Bemidbar 13:1-20 20 will die in the desert over the next 40 years. God tells Moshe to send spies into Cana’an (later The spies die in a plague, except Yehoshua the Land of Israel), one from each tribe. The and Calev. Moshe tells the nation about the names of the spies are listed. One of them is 40 year decree and they mourn. Despite Moshe’s Hoshea, whose name Moshe changes to discouragement, a section of the people attempt Yehoshua (Joshua). Moshe instructs the spies to enter the Land but are brutally thwarted by the to enter the Land from the south, look at its Amalekites and Cana’anites. nature and check the strength of its inhabitants. God tells Moshe to instruct the nation that when Point to Consider: why did Moshe change they bring animal offerings, these should be Yehoshua’s name? (See Rashi to 13:17). accompanied by a bread meal offering (mincha) and a wine libation (nesech). 2nd Aliya (Levi) – 13:21-14:7 Question: why did the punishment last for 40 The spies enter the Land. They travel to the valley years (14:34)? Answer on bottom of page 6. of Eshkol, where they cut a grape vine which they carry on poles, as well as figs and pomegranates. 5th Aliya (Chamishi) – 15:8-16 After 40 days in the Land, the spies return to The mitzvah to bring a meal offering and a wine share their report and show the people the fruit. libation extends to all offerings and to all Their report begins positively, but then warns of members of the nation. the powerful nations living in the Land and the 6th Aliya (Shishi) – 15:17-26 strength of their fortified cities. Calev, one of the When making bread from grain grown in the Land spies, tries to reassure the people that they will of Israel, one has to take a tithe from the dough nevertheless conquer the Land. The other spies, (challah). The Torah specifies the offerings that except Yehoshua, contradict him claiming that it need to be brought if the whole nation is a land "that devours its inhabitants and that all accidentally worships idols (Rashi). the people are giants". The people cry out in rebellion and weep all night to return to Egypt. 7th Aliya (Shevi’i) – 15:27-31 Moshe and Aharon despair, whilst Calev and The offering brought if an individual accidentally Yehoshua, who say that the Land is actually “very, worships idols is detailed. The punishments for very good”, rend their clothes. intentional idolatry and blasphemy are detailed. 3rd Aliya (Shlishi) – 14:8-25 A man is found desecrating Shabbat in the Calev and Yehoshua declare that God will ensure desert. God instructs Moshe to put him to death. the Israelites’ conquest of the Land, as long as God tells Moshe to teach the nation about the they do not rebel against Him, but the people mitzvah of tzitzit (this passage is the third threaten to stone them to death. God laments the paragraph of the Shema – see green siddur, p.70). nation’s lack of faith and threatens to destroy Haftarah them in a plague. Moshe pleads for forgiveness, From the Book of Yehoshua, the haftarah relates stressing that other nations may claim that it that just before the Israelites enter the Land, was beyond God’s power to bring Israel into Yehoshua sends two spies. They are pursued the Land. God relents, but with a qualification – to Jericho but are hidden away by a lady called all those who angered Him will not enter the Rachav. She asks them to spare her and her Land (see next aliya). family after entering the Land. They concur. 4th Aliya (Revi’i) – 14:26-15:7 The spies bring a favourable report back to God decrees that men currently over the age of Yehoshua. United Synagogue Daf Hashavua Produced by US Living & Learning together with the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue Editor: Rabbi Chaim Gross Editor-in-Chief: Rabbi Baruch Davis Editorial Team: Ilana Epstein, Michael Laitner, Sharon Radley Available also via email US website www.theus.org.uk ©United Synagogue To sponsor Daf Hashavua please contact Loraine Young on 020 8343 5653, or [email protected] If you have any comments or questions regarding Daf Hashavua please email [email protected] 2 Synthesising Two Worlds by Rabbi Zvi Cohen, Kingsbury United Synagogue The image of the spies The Zohar (the central work of Jewish Mysticism, returning from their written, according to one historical view, in the reconnaissance of the Land 2nd century CE) states that the spies were of Israel, bearing fruit to back concerned that they would lose their leadership up their bad report is well positions when they entered the Land. Different known. It is the motif of the situations require different leaders. The spies had Israeli Ministry of Tourism been leaders in a totally spiritual existence, and also appears on bottles where every corporeal need was provided for; of Palwin wine. It is clear from the verses that they only needed to focus on the Divine. Living in the spies came back with a negative report, with the Land would necessitate planting, reaping and devastating results. However, their motive gathering. How would they retain their emphasis needs some explanation. How could such great on serving God if they were so involved in the individuals, who had seen unbelievable miracles physical? Therefore they came up with a plan to with their own eyes when leaving Egypt and maintain their positions and thereby cling on to at Mount Sinai, get it so wrong? their connection with God. Two of the spies stood up to the test and However, a Jew is meant to live in this physical returned with a positive report. Both were aided world while remaining spiritually attached to in different ways. Yehoshua (Joshua) had his God. This explains Moshe’s prayer for Yehoshua. name changed by Moshe from Hoshea to The world to come was created with the letter Yehoshua, meaning ‘God should save you from yud and this world with the letter hey (Talmud the spies’ plans’ (Bemidbar 13:16 with Rashi). Menachot 29b). The correct path is to synthesise Calev, on the other hand, went by himself to these two worlds; to engage with this world in Hebron, to the burial place of the Patriarchs, to order to serve God. Moshe added the letter yud pray that he should not be ensnared by the spies’ – Yehoshua’s realisation that one can straddle plan (13:22 with Rashi). Perhaps these facts can both worlds could save him from the spies’ plan. shed some light on the nature of the spies’ mistake. This also explains why Calev went to Hebron. It is a place of connection between this world and Additionally, the Midrash describes the nation’s the next, the burial place of the Patriarchs and experience in the desert with the following Matriarchs. These couples excelled in fusing the parable: two worlds. They were prime examples of how we should have our feet firmly on the ground, While a hen has chicks, she shelters them under with our heads directed heavenward. her wings and digs in the ground to provide them with food. As they grow, if they come too close to her, she pecks them on the head as if to say, “go fend for yourselves”. So too in the desert, every need was provided for. There was water from a rock, manna that fell daily from heaven and clouds of glory which protected and led the nation. However, when they entered the Land, it would be time to fend for themselves as these miracles would cease. In memory of Harav Binyamin ben Harav Shalom 3 Bein Adam Lechaveiro Part 1: Defining our Terms by Rabbi Daniel Fine, Community Rabbi, Stanmore & Canons Park United Synagogue The story is told of a young with his guru in India, Brian had noticed a wallet lady named Sarah who had on the floor. The guru immediately rushed to recently ‘discovered religion’; pick it up and claim it as his own. “I found it, it's after a philosophical journey, clearly meant to be mine”, the guru declared. she was inspired and This incident had actually prompted Brian to committed to her newfound consider visiting Jerusalem; the class began his Jewish observance. slow journey back to his roots. However, whilst Sarah had moved in one direction, her brother Brian had Unlike some other systems, the Torah obligates moved in a different direction. Living in India, us both in mitzvot which regulate our relationship Brian had become attached to a meditative with God (bein adam leMakom) and mitzvot group and was heavily involved in an intense which address our interpersonal relationships silent meditation project. (bein adam lechaveiro). The distinction between the two categories is not that the former is Despite their differences, Sarah and Brian performed privately and the latter involves remained on cordial terms; Brian promised that others; eating non-kosher food in a public one day he would visit Sarah in Jerusalem, place remains a bein adam leMakom issue.
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