Parshas Shelach: THE 24 SPIES

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there only one person per sh so there were a total of 12 men why does it say another question is what's is him so which one is it now friends we're familiar we usually uh think that there were a total of 12 maragam after all that's what it says in the beginning of the par where the T lists the names of the you know it's interesting the Trum by all of the you have a z except for it says I'm sorry there you don't have says it's because all the other they separated between them the Mel and their which was the shet except for remained connected by all the other there's a separating between be it as it may we we tend to think there were a total of 12 maragam however if you look in thei there is a revolutionary in thei in there's a there's a there's a reboy here what do we use the REO for the REO for the REO is we learn out there are Mor 16 carried a cluster of grapes eight carried figs in other words according to the Raba there were 24 Morag 16 for the esal and eight for the figs and the pomegranate but rabal says by the way it's interesting because according to the Yami then K and yushua participated in carrying the fruits the Rashi and the opinion of the B is that K and Yeshua did not participate in carrying the fruits but this opinion Raba is in contr distinction to rabish what does RAB hold rabish says remind him eight carried the cluster of grapes four carried the figs and this is the great so according to R AA there were not 24 moram there were there were not 12 Morag there are 24 morum and I know you're thinking that's not what they told me in Yesa that's not what they told in kindergarten that's not when they told me in Nursery School that's not what they told me in elementary school or even in high school well you've graduated to get the real scoop the real scoop is there are 24 maragam that is the opinion of RAB AKA in the usami and not only is this the opin brings this there were 12 and there were 24 comes reer Ander in the in as we know sometimes rer will just quote a gamar and if we're fluent enough in the garar is quoting we should be able to figure out what's troubling rabar well says look at the in the beginning of sanin and how do I know so what exactly is bothering rabar it behooves us to look in the gamar and sanedrin we know the first Mish and Sanhedrin occupies the first am and the mishna says like this how do I know a Sanhedrin Katana a small court is 23 and the will judge and the will save which means a aah judges and an a saves so that means you have to have 10 acquitting 10 finding guilty and then you need another three now how do I know an is 10 because it says by the how long will this bad Community continue the sin this bad Convention of people continue their bad ways so we know there were 12 morim and we subtract Yeshua and K so the sour said a Sanhedrin is 23 is predicated on the idea that aah is 10 how do I know aah is 10 because it says by the court and it says by the morum and presuming there were 12 moram minus yua and K so that's 10 so what seems what rer is bother by is if the source that an ad 10 is from the moram that only works out according to the opinion of RAB that there were 12 moram so you subtract Yeshua and K but according to R that there were 24 moram and if you subtract yua and K so that would leave you 22 so we should learn out an adah is 22 and in that case a Sanhedrin should be 47 you need 22 equ quitting 22 finding guilty and another three so in other words where he doesn't tell us what he's bothered by but by citing and referencing this gar in the context of T and that brings the of RAB AKA that there are 24am what reer seems to be bothered by is so then we've destroyed the source that accorded 23 based on a A+ 3 10 10 + 3 should be 22 + 22 + friends there's another gar in sh that should now be highly problematic namely from where do we learn out minion where do we learn out it says that every matter of K needs 10 how do I know that it says and it says by and how big is an we learn out is we learn out is 10 from the morum because it says so if the morum were 10 we apply that to it says from there we'll extend it to and in that case ask we could ask in other words if raber is asking that according to Raba that there are 24 morim then a Sanhedrin should be 22 22 and three we could ask then according to R Raba you should need a minion of 22 and if by the way if you need a minion of 22 it would come out that many shs would never have a minion you know imagine you walking around I need a you know forget a center Center is going to do you no good what what you going do with 10 people you need 22 people and by the way I found that none other than the himself asks this question says I always wondered that according to re that there were 24am you know is 10 we know ad is 10 we learn out from the maragam but but then well we we should see that you need 22 comes the and what theer says would seem to answer's question as well that even though there were 24 maragam and take out Yeshua and K but nevertheless only 10 of them spoke lashan Hara about the land so even if there were 22 morum only 10 of them um disparaged the land so therefore when it says it's only going on 10 but then and friends that would answer both questions that means a by minion would be 10 and to answer's question by the Sedin should also be 10 in at the end of B he says he also asked this question that according to RAB how could you learn you could say there's another source that a is 10 how's that we could take out the we don't need a because if you look in the USI thei says how do you know a minion is 10 says and it says so there's another source to learn out 10 makes a minion it says by and it says by the and just like were 10 so too is 10 so even if you say there are 24 we don't needam for a minion though we would re's question will would still stand how do you know by the Sedin is 10 by the way another question you could ask is we know there's a Mitzvah of Kem right you're familiar the Mitzvah of if somebody puts um somebody threatens one's life with the performance of any Mitzvah one does not have to give up their life to fulfill a Mitzvah however if it's in public if it's in front of 10 people then one would have to give up their life so as not to violate a Mitzvah that's learned out from which again you could ask if the source of that is the maragam then it should be 22 okay so one answer we said is well only 10 morim spoke bad about the land maybe they all carried the fruit but only 10 of them spoke badly only 10 of them spoke badly about the land and then another approach would be to say that we don't need at all we could learn straight from the which would only answer theer's question of how do we know a minion is 10 but would not answer the question of then we no longer have a source that for saned I saw quoted that regarding this question there's a an approach in aishna I looked everywhere yes mishna there there was no independent sa except at the end of the you have a small commentary called which is is the writings of RAB sh Pi the author of M sashas who added on to the m sashas and he also asked Ker's question um that according to reab how do you know or he also asked our question how do you know forar you need 10 people and don't say we Pas like RAB because we Pas like RAB AKA we would we would always follow Rab's ruling so rabish says like this did you wonder if there are 24 mam why doesn't the Torah tell us their names that's another important question who are these guys who are they so says r p according to RAB aka the fact that Torah didn't say their names and it only mentions certain names like we said earlier in the only the ones whose names were mentioned were the ones who disparage the land and it's only them that that the PK say but the ones whose names were not mentioned even though they took the cluster and they took the REM their cavana was not La so according to that when RAB learns outan is 23 it's only going on it's because only the maragam whose names are mentioned are refer to now it's very interesting there's a saer Epstein on thei in and he deals with uh the question that we asked in the beginning why does it first say and then him he says that the truth is like we asked if there were 24 moram then we should only uh how do you know an a is 10 it should be 22 he said that actually there were two charges is two people were sent for each shave one is is according to your vision and then is according to their vision so the ones thatu sent were rash the ones that CLA sent were just regular people the was referring to thean who sent so in other words according to the even though there were 24 moram but there were two different distinct M uh messenger ships namely the ones that mha sent and the ones that the rest of the Jewish people sent but rabai I want to present to you a startling interpretation and approach to understanding the meaning of the 24 morlum and if there were 24 morlum why are they not mentioned why are only son some names mentioned you know thear sanin we are accustomed to thinking that by the when was on his deathbed and says the was saying I don't want my name mentioned I don't want my name mentioned in the episode of K that's why it says benas Ben Le but it doesn't say Ben and I don't want my name mentioned in the episode I don't want my name mentioned in the episode of however the that's how Rashi learns on but says a what did not want was saying the I don't want my name mentioned in the story of the maragam what does that mean that yovin doesn't want his name mentioned in the story of the maragam what does that mean where would his name be mentioned and where is it not mentioned there's a very mysterious Med the med says says go up in the south the med says go up go up with those that are going up what does that mean go up with those that are going up the has an amazing approach to this whole idea that we we encounter in t Andi and that there were 24 morum but he begins by asking a very obvious question how could anyone say they're 24 maragam you know you may be able to get away with it if you just learn parl because in parl all you see is a l a list of 12 maragam and you'll say well maybe there were another 12 it's is because it doesn't say anywhere inl the sum total of the moram that's right it doesn't say in the sum total of the maragam but it does say in other places the total of the morum namely in in sa the says look where my icon is I took 12 men well if the PK explicitly says I took 12 men then how could reaba say there were 24 moram you know there are a few questions you could ask over here you have the names of many but one is conspicuously absent what about why does it say he's not is not one of the say so says it doesn't say so why is y not mentioned furthermore where's Ley Ley didn't Ley didn't have a representative why is Ley not mentioned so says the this idea this concept that there are 24 maragam and based on this idea raber has a question well in that case how do you know a by sanedrin is 10 so saned should be 47 how do you know says how do you know minion is 10 Rish P says how do you know a Minion for says this tradition that they're 24 maragam cannot be taken on a physical level CU actually if you look in the Aral which I found as Theus of the sh were going to print the is in number 23 the AR says that when the 12 physical morlam went were dispatched to go check out the land of Israel they were boosted and they were supported and they were infused with what is called soor so ior is when the Nish is uh is infused with a nit of another Nish they were infused with the N of the shet that they were representing so you want to know who the missing 12 mirum were why the T doesn't say their names the T does say their names really we l sh you know who it was sh Z and he's supported by Ru from was supported by the by the shet that he represented namely shim Yuda k k was supported by Yehuda so you'll ask well that's nice because was supported by y but who was yahushua supported by ah says the for him what did added the the is so the of so in other words y's soul went to Masha to the shavid of manasha namely y boosted God but who boosted Yu that's why was from he added the Y the Kad the Y was Ley himself was the shav itself the one of the itself that's why yahushua was given the extra yud that represents Ley by the way so what happened I but still there were 24 maragam their answer is they started off as 24 maragam yeah they started off as 24 maragam but there's an idea the says that the same way you know that AR says in many places that when a person doesn't have the could depart from them like if somebody gets angry their Nish can so to speak leave them so too if your own can depart certainly if you have someone else's the eore of another that certainly could depart and that's what happened all the they did not remain and true and authentic to the shave that was they were hosting and therefore Ruan left shaat Beni and shim ruin left Shamu Z shim left all the their their co- Partners their eor the sh that was infused in them to be them left because they did not remain true however except for the he had a different Spirit what do you mean he had a different Spirit he had in him also the Spirit of Yehuda so he remained true to the sh that was being and therefore he he was able to withstand the persuasion of the maragam this is the meaning of the mysterious Med go up in the South to which the med says go up with those who are going up with you well what do you mean with those who are going up with you who's going up with the morim the answer is the ones going up with the morim were none other than the themselves says Aral incredibly this is the meaning [Applause] of he had another spirit with him oh says Aral this is the meaning of the children of Israel the children of Yakov namely literally the 12at themselves who are going up with you but when they acted badly and they they acted with kav look in the he says something amazing even the themselves could be mic when they sin wow now thead says that's why when yahushua went into is who did he send K and Pinas why K and Pinas K because K remained true to the soul of Yehuda that was with him and Pinas who is from sh Lei because sh Lei also was able to stay connected to yahushua and therefore these were the two that were not persuaded the first time around so yosua utilized them now the second time around now this is the meaning of that yobu says I don't want my name associated by the maragam you see because the the were literally in the moram but says leave me out of it I don't want to take part of it I don't want to have any connection to it ah says with this we can answer the question of RAR so it's an amazing type of approach where he's using the Caba to answer alha the Kasha is if there were 24 Mir then how we've destroyed the source that an ad is 10 that a Sanhedrin is 23 that a Minion for Dak is 10 then a Minion for KES is 10 the answer is no they started off as 24 morim but as they were sinning the the of the departed from the morim when it came down to it the was only 10 because he had 12 and we take away yesu and k i but there were 24 morum 24 when they started but when the realized that they were not being influenced laa they booked they left and they were not part of this situation friends I would add I would humbly add that we know that K went to DAV if you look at number 15 he went up in the South and he came to what did he do so Rashi says went alone to do what to be not to be persuaded to be among the maragam what's very interesting is the T doesn't say why K went to Kon you're right simply and this is how Rashi learns he went there to DAV by but Rashi doesn't even say even though is us is always referring to but is it possible to say that there was another intention of why K went to the marak you know why didn't yahushua go to the marak Friends who's buried in the mar so what do you mean Abraham s RKA Leia maybe Adam and the Y says that in the midbar because Yehuda promised to bring Benyamin back so his bones were wrestling his bones were rustling his bones were shaking and rolling on the the says from here we learn that if and he davs please Elevate him is buried with the what does it mean is buried with the a by the way the S also says that Yehuda is buried with the rivid on the sa asks but it isn't it K and there four Z so that means and ab and S and ROV and Le but not Yehuda so he say well maybe because Yehuda is not buried with his wife to which the rivit says you know it's whoever heard that Yehuda was in the mar maybe it means he's buried near the mar it doesn't say but rather in the cave it says excuse me not maybe in maybe he's very near the the avice so I was thinking maybe that's the reason why K went to the he's not just going to DAV by then Yeshua would have gone he was going because he wanted wanted to Pray by the uh Kev of Yehuda he wanted to Pray by the Kev of Yehuda why because he was the only one that remain true to the soul of the sh that was within him all the other shim were unfaithful to the Mel that was accompanying them but K perhaps in order to remain true so you'll say was Yehuda already buried there then because if you look in the it says so you know it's unclear whether his he was buried there at that time time but at least maybe he was going to the m where Yehuda would be buried says now we understand why when encounters the brothers what does he charge them of were maragam the maragam were Shamu Zur [Applause] would accompany them he says he was referring to this side of Thea that the 24 moram none other than the who accompanied the theim and therefore say so when RAB says there are 24 morim this approach is learning that the morum themselves were accompanied by The Souls of the and in that case the three L questions that we raised number one from rabar as to the source of a for HED being 10 the question of that the source of Minion being 10 the question of Rish the source of being 10 could be answered by saying what the teaches us that The Souls of these departed when they sinned and therefore ultimately even rabika agrees there are only 10 Unfaithful Miram so you'll say but you said at the beginning of the year that this year will expand my horizons it will give me more career opportunities I'll have job offers I'm not finished yet there's a famous story about R muger where R muger was once when he was the ren brda there was a father who had a baby boy and the father was about to pass away and the family wanted to wait for the father to pass away to name the baby after him and said no no no no do the bris and they did the bris and the father had and they asked what's the he said Shad is like this remember the angel that went to rescue light he's the same angel that went to heal abam so question is why did he have to heal abam just go straight to rescue light so says it's because that angel didn't want to rescue light he's not coming down from shamayim to rescue light but once he already came down to heal aam he's already down you know he's ready down the block so he'll make an extra stop same thing with Eli eloi is not coming down from the Heavens to heal this father but once he's coming anyway for the bris he'll make an extra stop he'll add a stop you know he'll add a stop and heal the father well in the safare where the story appears they they uh print another story about you know all the great in Europe were in multiple Rabin posts throughout Europe the shagar muger the malum many many if not most great rabim were chased out of uh their Rabin Post in Europe as R salant would say any Rabbi that they don't chase out is not a rabbi but any Rabbi that they could chase out a town is not a man anyway The Story Goes that R Shel muger was reduced to having to teach children and one time R muger wanted to have an opportunity to speak he was looking for parasa and so he comes to the city of brda and some people recognized him and he and uh they said you know maybe give a drasa so and this way they'll give you so he went to the maras and uh he let he allowed him to give a DHA now said please do me a favor come to my DHA said I don't listen to Jas so says listen I'm it's going to be you'll be there anyway just stick around and soer gave the DHA and everyone gave him except Forman he didn't even look at him so what did I do wrong why give me everyone else gave me he says because according to you there are 24 morim so all the Jas in the gar fall away so muger says what do you mean that make this up don't you know it's Yi and it's brought in tus and sa and when rman heard that he said really I didn't know you shi he says how could I be the r of the city and you're just a mamade you need to be the r of the city anyway so what do we see from this that if you know this idea that there were 24 morum you get career advancements you get job offers you get salary raises just by knowing that there are 24 maragam so my bra to you is in the Merit of us learning this material you should all have a tremendous Aliyah in all of your endeavors and I wish you all a wonderful day this week the Wednesday night share will be Tuesday night please stay tuned for that and we started today if you you could join us every morning from 9: to 9:15 Mish we learn a blad a week it's from 9 to 9:15 it's an amazing liem mode please join us and wishing everyone a wonderful day 1 second one second please