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    Shelach Summary Kamens 1

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    SHELACH
    PARSHAT HASHAVUA - SHELACH LECHA
    PARSHA SUMMARY
    BY RABBI SYLVAN KAMENS
    Moses sends twelve men, one from each tribe, to scout the land of Canaan,
    and to brin a re!ort about the nature of the land and its inhabitants" After
    forty days, the s!ies return brinin s!ectacular e#am!les of Canaan$s
    !roduce" %en of the s!ies re!ort that it is, indeed, a ood land, but that its
    inhabitants are too !owerful for the &sraelites to con'uer"
    %he &sraelites !anic, and des!ite the o!timistic words of encouraement from
    (oshua and Caleb, they rebel aainst Moses and Aaron and even say they
    want to return to Ey!t) (oshua and Caleb !lead with the !eo!le not to
    believe the neative s!ies$ re!ort and rebel aainst *od"
    As a reward for their effort, the !eo!le threaten them with stonin" *od
    threatens to destroy the !eo!le, but Moses intercedes" *od relents, but
    decrees that this eneration will die in the wilderness after forty years of
    wanderin, e#ce!t for (oshua and Caleb" A rou! of &sraelites test *od$s
    threat by tryin to attac+ Canaan, and are re!elled by the Canaanites"
    %he readin concludes with laws concernin sacrifices, s!ecifyin the
    amounts of flour and oil re'uired for a rain offerin and the measure of wine
    for the drin+ offerin that accom!anied ma,or sacrifices- and the law of
    challah, indicatin that a !ortion of the douh for bread is to be iven to the
    !riests"
    Shelach Summary Kamens .
    %hen there is a descri!tion of the re'uired offerin when a whole community
    has sinned unintentionally, and the narrative of an incident of a Shabbat
    violation for which the offender was !ut to death" %he /arsha closes with the
    laws of 0t1it1it"0

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