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SHLACH 5759
PARSHA SUMMARYShlach Moses sends spies... The return of the spies... Moses pleads to G-d for the Jewish people... Sacrifices, idolatry... The wood gatherer... Tzitzit...  
ADVANCED STUDYDespair Of The Spies What is the meaning of the remarkable episode of the twelve spies? Why did the spies argue as they did? What was the answer to their challenge? And how were they able to reduce the people to despair, a people who had witnessed the great miracles of deliverance - the plagues and the division of the Red Sea - the miracles of protection against the snakes and scorpions of the desert, and the miracles of providence, the Manna and the Well? |
EDUCATIONIntroducing the Leaders of the Future to their Past In the bastion of higher learning known as Harvard University some students are touting a new way to study. And it's so informal, it's taking place in a house. Rabbi Hirschy and Elkie Zarchi arrived in Cambridge with the class of 2001. Without any publicity, their house began to fill with students and community members who came for classes, discussion and the Shabbat experience. 
CHILDRENThe Lambskin He did not believe half of the stories he had heard about the Baal Shem Tov. Yet he knew that only a miracle could help them out of their predicament. And so, when his wife kept on urging him day after day to go to the Baal Shem Tov, Moshe finally agreed to go, for there was nothing else for him to do. |
INSPIRATIONG-dliness In A Clay Vessel Mundane entanglements, involvement with worldly matters, may be tiresome, difficult and distasteful for one who aspires to spiritual heights. They are, however, an integral part of the Divine plan, and as Chassidism explains: "The ultimate intent of the descent of the descent and exile is to prepare for an immense ascent when, in the days of Moshiach, the light of G-d will radiate in a manifest way!" Last week's selection |