June 25, 2022; Sivan 26, 5782
Parsha The Meraglim, the spies, were exceptional people. Rashi (Bamidbar 3:3) explains that the word “Anashim” which the Torah used to describe the Meraglim – indicates that, at the time, they were highly moral people. So what went wrong? How could they have attempted to undermine the entire purpose of coming to Eretz Yisroel and have made such a cataclysmic error by speaking negatively against Eretz Yisrael?
We can perhaps gain insight from one of the descriptions that the Meraglim had given of the land that they were sent to spy out....