Parashat Sh'lach

Numbers 13:1-15:41

How many times are we about to reach our goals and we back down, out of fear of the unknown, out of fear of not meeting expectations, or simply because we just don't believe we've reached the end of the road and we're terrified of what's next? will come later When the leaders of each of the tribes that were sent to explore the territory they were supposed to inhabit in the near future returned to the camp, they first described the wonders of the place to the astonishment of the people gathered there with Moshe and Aaron, but then they began to object to the matter.

Yes, the fruits are huge and it takes two people to collect a bunch of grapes, yes, milk and honey really flow, but the inhabitants are huge and dangerous, it is better to stay where and as they are. Among all these supposed leaders, only Caleb and Joshua encourage them to continue, which leads the other explorers to exaggerate and increase the degree of danger they are going to face and end up convincing people that it is much better to even return. to Egypt, to the slavery of which they lamented so much, rather than move on.

Fed up with so many complaints and lack of trust, despite everything he had done for them, God decides that none of them, except Joshua and Caleb, will be able to reach the desired goal of arriving and settling in the Promised Land, and, In addition, he will condemn his children to wander for forty years in the desert. Without contemplations. God may have freed them from slavery in Egypt, but they continue to cling to their chains, unable to trust in a better future.