“Black, Brown, Blonde… What Does It Mean to Be ‘Israel’?” | Prophets of Israel Daily

They're black Jews, they're brown Jews, blonde Jews, there's polka dot Jews. If you live what Rahab said that Hashem your God, he is God in heaven above and on the earth below, you can attach yourself to Israel. And so the end of chapter 2, spies return to Joshua with a totally different report than the spies in the desert in the book of Numbers. They say, "Truly the Lord has delivered into our hands all of the land, for even all the inhabitants of the country have melted before us." And that really is the final fixing of the sin of the spies before we enter into the land of Israel. They went to the most fortified city with the greatest walls, the strongest defenses, and they didn't talk about fear or giants, they speak about Hashem's victory already unfolding. So our first action in the land is actually to rectify the greatest sin of the generation in the desert.