Audio Summaries of the daily Chumash portions In loving memory of Ousher Zelig ben Myer HaLevi Z”LTo sponsor an episode please visit: https://itistaught.com/support-this-project/To get the daily chumash summaries in your email click here https://substack.com/profile/182692001-sarede-rachel-switzer?utm_source=profile-page.Subscribe on SpotifySubscribe on Apple PodcastsPlease consider leaving a review on the platform of your choice! For comments and inquiries, email itistaught@gmail.comThe Spies' ConsequenceYehoshua and Caleb continued speaking to the nation, saying that if G-d wants them, He will bring them to the land and give it to them.They caution the nation not to rebel and not to fear the people in the land, as they will "eat them like bread", as the decent ones from among them have died, thus they no longer have the protection they used to due to their merits (an alternate reading is that the "shade of G-d" has departed from them).However the entire nation said that Yehoshua and Caleb should be pelted with stones and then the Cloud of Glory appeared to the Israelites in front of the Tent of Meeting.G-d asked Moshe "To what extent would the Israelites anger Me and for how long will they not have faith in Me? Due to all of the miracles I did on their behalf, they should have faith that I will fulfill my promise (to bring them into the Land)."G-d continues speaking to Moshe, saying that He will hit them with a plague and eradicate them. He will then make Moshe into an even greater nation.Moshe responds, saying that if G-d does this, the Egyptians will hear about it and rather than saying that G-d killed the Israelites because they sinned, they will say that while G-d had enough strength to rise up against the Egyptians, He was not strong enough to fight the inhabitants of the land of Canaan.Moshe continues along this line, saying that if G-d kills the nation suddenly, the Egyptians will interpret this as being because the inhabitants of Canaan are strong and mightly, and that while G-d was able to fight Pharaoh, Pharaoh does not compare to the 31 kings of Canaan. And in being unable to bring the Israelites into the land, G-d killed them in the desert.Moshe pleads with G-d, invoking his 13 attributes of mercy (see Bamidbar 14:18 for full list). Beginning with His trait of being "Slow to Anger" and absolving anyone who repents, bringing to light a conversation Moshe had with G-d when Moshe ascended Mount Sinai. At that time, Moshe saw G-d sitting and writing "Hashem is slow to anger" and Moshe interjected, "For the righteous" to which G-d retorted, "for the wicked as well. Moshe then said, "Let the wicked be eradicated." To which G-d said that He swears by Moshe's life that he will need G-d's trait of being slow to anger for even the wicked. And indeed after the sin of the Golden Calf as well as here with the spies, Moshe invoked G-d's trait of being "Slow to Anger", to which G-d responded, "But didn't you say I should only be slow to anger for the righteous?" To which Moshe replied, "But had you not said it would be for the wicked as well?"G-d replies that He forgives the Israelites in accordance with Moshe reasoning. However, He Swears (saying "as I Live"), that those amongst them who tested G-d ten times* will be killed off slowly over the next 40 years.*Side note: The gemara in Archin 15a-b lists these 10 times as follows:2x at sea - first when they complained saying "are there no graves in Egypt that you took us here.." and second when they emerged from the sea they said that just as they came out of the sea, the Egyptians came out on the other side.2x with the manna - first when some people left some manna over in the morning when though they were commanded not to and second when some people when out to gather manna on shabbos even though they were commanded not to.2x with the pheasants (ie the two times they asked for meat in an ungrateful way - in Shmos 16:3 and Bamidbar 11:4)2x when they complained about lacking water (Shmos 15:23 and 17:2)And the last two were the sin of the Golden Calf and the sin with the spies.G-d says that he will save Caleb since he did not follow along with the rest of the spies. Caleb had told the spies that he was going along with them though in his heart he was not. The fact that he pretended to be going along with the spies is what made them open to listening to him as they thought that he would continue with the negative rhetoric of the other spies.He says that He will bring Caleb into the land and his offspring will drive out the Giants inhabiting the land.G-d then concludes saying that the Amelikites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley and if they are to go towards them now, the Israelites will be killed by them as G-d will not be with the Israelites. Thus instead, they are to pivot and tomorrow they are to redirect their journey in the direction of the Sea of of Reeds. Get full access to Sarede’s Substack at sarede.substack.com/subscribe
