Friday, June 15, 2012

Dvar Torah - Parshas Shlach

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

Rabbi Label Lam and Torah.org?

So that through them The האור Light, רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

	Dvar Torah
	by Rabbi Label Lam
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Parshas Shlach

A Powerful Message about Our Power!

Moshe sent them to scout the Land of Canaan, and he said to them, "Go up this way in the south and climb up the mountain. You shall see what [kind of] land it is, and the people who inhabit it; are they strong or weak? Are there few or many? And what of the land they inhabit? Is it good or bad? And what of the cities in which they reside are they in camps or in fortresses? What is the soil like? Is it fat or lean? Are there any trees in it or not? You shall be courageous and take from the fruit of the land." It was the season when the first grapes begin to ripen. (Bamidbar 13:17-20)

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

Harav Ginsburgh and Galeinai Publication Society?

So that through them The האור Light, רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

Shabbat Shelach 5772

Friday, 25 Sivan 5772 - June 15, 2012

Dear The WatchMen from Israel,

We are still having problems with the audio quality of the Rav's Monday night shiur, so again, unfortunately, no new videos.

Included with this newsletter though is the transcript of the shiur in English.

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

Rabbi Yochanan Zweig and Torah.org?

So that through them The האור Light, רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

	Rabbi Zweig on the Parsha
	by Rabbi Yochanan Zweig
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Parshas Shlach

Internal Injury

"Send forth men..." (13:2)

This week's parsha introduces the episode of the spies who spoke disparagingly concerning Eretz Yisroel. As a result of the spies' actions the entire generation of Bnei Yisroel who accepted their evil tidings were doomed to die in the desert[1]. Rashi explains that the reason why this parsha is juxtaposed to the story of Miriam's affliction with tzora'as recorded at the end of last week's parsha, is that the spies should have taken a lesson from Miriam regarding the consequences of speaking Loshon Horah[2]. The prohibition of speaking Loshon Horah is amongst the most severe offenses recorded in the Torah. The Chofeitz Chaim enumerates the many positive and negative precepts violated when engaging in Loshon Horah[3]. Why did the spies, who where the greatest leaders of the generation, require the incident with Miriam to teach them a precept which is clearly delineated in the Torah?

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

Rabbi Yissocher Frand and Torah.org?

So that through them The האור Light, רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

Rabbi Yissocher Frand

Parshas Sh'lach

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand's Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: Tape # 773, Kavanah When Wearing Tzitzis. Good Shabbos

One Can Recognize His Own Greatness Without Being Arrogant

The final statement the Meraglim [Spies] made concerning their report regarding what they saw in the Land of Israel was: "There we saw the Nephillim, the sons of a giant from among the Nephillim; we in our eyes like grasshoppers; and so too were we in their eyes." [Bamidbar 13:33] We have commented in past years – how did the spies know how they looked to the Canaanites? They were, after all, not mind readers. The answer we have given is that if one perceives himself as a grasshopper then that will be how others perceive him as well! To put it colloquially, "if you think you are a shmateh [rag], then that is how others will look at you as well."

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein and Torah.org?

So that through them The האור Light, רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

	Netziv: Davar B'Ito
	by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
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Parshas Shlach

Two Halachic Highways¹

Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moshe and Aharon...

What were they thinking? With all due respect to Aharon, did anyone believe that if Moshe could not provide an answer, that Aharon would? Note how they are ordered in the pasuk, with Moshe listed first. The plain reading is that they turned to them in sequence.