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| − | <li>< | + | <li><a href="PlainText#13" data-aht="subpage">Parashat Shelach</a> describes how the process of the nation's spiritual decline culminated with the sin of the spies and its severe consequences. |
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| − | <li><b></b> – < | + | <li><b>Sending of the Spies</b> – <a href="PlainText#13" data-aht="subpage">Chapter 13</a> 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> |
| + | <li><b>Sin and Punishment</b> – In <a href="PlainText#14" data-aht="subpage">Chapter 14</a>, 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>Laws</b> – <a href="PlainText#15" data-aht="subpage">Chapter 15</a> 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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| − | <a href=" | + | <a href="The Story of the Spies in Bemidbar and Devarim" data-aht="page" class="btn btn-large">The Story of the Spies in Bemidbar and Devarim »</a>    |
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Latest revision as of 05:01, 1 January 2015
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 Spies – Chapter 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.
- Laws – Chapter 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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