We’re in the midst of discussing the story of the 12 scouts who travelled to the Promised Land (at this time known as “Canaan”) and came back to Moses with their report. Although separated from this incident by thousands of years, there are a couple of key takeaways from this scene which have direct application […]

Forty days later, they returned from reconnoitering the land and went to Moshe, Aharon and the entire community of the people of Isra’el at Kadesh in the Pa’ran Desert, where they brought back word to them and to the entire community and showed them the fruit of the land.  What they told him was this: […]

“They went up into the Negev and arrived at Hevron; Achiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the ‘Anakim, lived there. (Hevron was built seven years before Tzo‘an in Egypt.)  They came to the Eshkol Valley; and there they cut off a branch bearing one cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two of them; […]

“Moshe sent them to reconnoiter the land of Kena‘an, instructing them, ‘Go on up to the Negev and into the hills, and see what the land is like. Notice the people living there, whether they are strong or weak, few or many; and what kind of country they live in, whether it is good or […]

Moshe dispatched them from the Pa’ran Desert as Adonai had ordered; all of them were leading men among the people of Isra’el.  Here are their names: from the tribe of Re’uven, Shamua the son of Zakur; from the tribe of Shim‘on, Shafat the son of Hori; from the tribe of Y’hudah, Kalev the son of […]