Weekly reading – שְׁלַח לְךָ – Shelach Lecha – Send for yourself; Numbers 13:1 – 15:41; Joshua 2:1 – 24
Sometimes a person fails not because of the magnitude of the challenge before them, but because of the image they carry of themselves. That is exactly what the parashah “Shelach Lecha” is about. The people of Israel are already standing at the threshold of the Promised Land. The promise lies directly before them. Yet precisely at this decisive moment, they defeat themselves from within. It is not the giants in the land that become the greatest problem, but the “grasshopper consciousness” in their own hearts.
The parashah Shelach Lecha describes one of the most dramatic moments in the history of Israel. Years of the exodus from Egypt, of miracles, of guidance, of hope and of promise lead the people to the threshold of the Promised Land. Moses sends out twelve spies to scout the land, its cities, its inhabitants, and its fruits. They return with an enormous cluster of grapes, as testimony to the richness of the land. The land is good, fertile, and full of promise....
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