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<li><aht subpage="PlainText#13">Parashat Shelach</aht> describes how the process of the nation's spiritual decline culminated with the sin of the spies and its severe consequences.</li>
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<li><b>Sending of the Spies</b> – <aht subpage="PlainText#13">Chapter 13</aht> recounts the sending of the twelve scouts to the Land of Canaan. They return forty days later with a negative report about the land.</li>
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<li><b>Sin and Punishment</b> – In <aht subpage="PlainText#14">Chapter 14</aht>, the nation despairs after hearing the spies' negative report, and demands a return to Egypt.  Moshe's prayers save them from annihilation, but Hashem decrees that the children of Israel will wander in the desert for forty years as a punishment for their lack of faith and rejection of the land. A group of Israelites attempt to advance into the land against God's will and are killed by the Amalekites and Canaanites.</li>
<li><b></b> – <aht subpage="PlainText#15">Chapter 15</aht> </li>
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<li><b>Laws</b> – <aht subpage="PlainText#15">Chapter 15</aht> presents the laws of the meal offerings and wine libations that accompany an animal offering. This is followed by the laws of the sin-offerings required when the entire nation or an individual sins unintentionally. The story is told of a man found gathering sticks on Shabbat, and his subsequent punishment. The chapter concludes with the commandment to place fringes (tzitzit) on the four corners of one's garment, as a reminder to fulfill the commandments.</li>
 
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Parashat Shelach – Summary

  • Parashat Shelach describes how the process of the nation's spiritual decline culminated with the sin of the spies and its severe consequences.
  • Sending of the SpiesChapter 13 recounts the sending of the twelve scouts to the Land of Canaan. They return forty days later with a negative report about the land.
  • Sin and Punishment – In Chapter 14, the nation despairs after hearing the spies' negative report, and demands a return to Egypt. Moshe's prayers save them from annihilation, but Hashem decrees that the children of Israel will wander in the desert for forty years as a punishment for their lack of faith and rejection of the land. A group of Israelites attempt to advance into the land against God's will and are killed by the Amalekites and Canaanites.
  • LawsChapter 15 presents the laws of the meal offerings and wine libations that accompany an animal offering. This is followed by the laws of the sin-offerings required when the entire nation or an individual sins unintentionally. The story is told of a man found gathering sticks on Shabbat, and his subsequent punishment. The chapter concludes with the commandment to place fringes (tzitzit) on the four corners of one's garment, as a reminder to fulfill the commandments.


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