Yehoshua's Spies

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1. The Mission of the Spies

   Rabbi Yaakov Medan

   What was the reason Moshe was not permitted to enter the Promised Land? Was it the Sin of the Spies, Mei Meriva, or perhaps neither?

2. The Character of Rahav

   Haftarot: Shelah

   Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein

   Rahav becomes a prostitute when she is a little girl, due to her family's circumstances. The senior authorities in Jericho all take advantage of her. When the king asks her to give up the spies, she counters the act of a prostitute - giving up one's values for money - with values of hessed and dedication for the greater good. Rahav chooses to join in the ways of Am Yisrael, and according to the midrash ultimately converts to Judaism.

3. Chapter 2: The Sending of the Spies to Yericho

   Rabbi Michael Hattin

   In this lesson, we will begin to consider Yehoshua's sending of spies to Yericho in advance of its capture, comparing and contrasting Yehoshua's spies, with those sent by his mentor Moshe almost four decades earlier, as described in Sefer Bemidbar/Numbers Chapters 13 and 14.

4. Chapter 2 Conclusion: Rachav and the Spies

   Rabbi Michael Hattin

   This lesson continues the analysis of the spies' mission. However, we shall shift our focus from their exploits to those of the real (but unlikely) heroine of the story, Rachav the harlot. Who is this woman, and why does she turn her back on her own people by harboring the spies? What are we to learn from her conduct? We will attempt to ascertain the motives of this remarkable woman.

5. Israel's First Setback

   Rabbi Michael Hattin

   This lesson compares the biblical text with the archeological findings in Jericho, and then proceeds to explore the story of Akhan and his trespass, and Yehoshua’s response. This story is the background for the initial failure at the Ai, a sharp contrast with the initial success in Jericho. God stresses that  the destiny of Israel as a people is bound to their moral and ritual conduct.

6. The Trespass of Akhan

   Rabbi Michael Hattin

   This lesson considers the trespass of Akhan and its terrible consequences for the entire people of Israel. The core lesson of this tale is the indispensable bond of Jewish nationhood that tightly links all the people of Israel together, to the extent that the fortunes of the larger community or even the national grouping are sometimes affected by the acts of an individual. Having begun the process of settling the land, the formerly twelve disparate tribes will need to quickly assimilate the painful lesson of Akhan if they are to survive as a state. All human acts, of omission or commission, of good or evil, of selfish greed or altruistic love, impact upon the larger human and even cosmic reality of which the perpetrator and his innocuous deed represent only small but not insignificant parts.

7. Military and Political Spying

   Prof. Jonathan Grossman

   A comparison between the spies sent by Moshe and the spies sent by Yehoshua teaches us that the role of the spies that Moshe sent was political rather than military. 

8. The Mission of the Spies [audio]

   Rabbi Yaakov Medan

   תאריך פרסום: תשע"ו | | 16 minutes

   The details of the story of the spies in Parashat Shelachare notoriously difficult to understand. How can we make sense of the episode's various incongruities and shed light on Moshe's role in this historic disaster?

9. Miracles in the Book of Joshua

   Dr. Ruth Walfish | Hour and 8 minutes

   The book of Yehoshua is the point of transfer from a miraculous supernatural existence that Bnei Yisrael experienced in their years of sojourn through the desert to a more mundane, natural existence in the Land of Israel. This lecture points to a number of parallel events that occurred in both the desert and in the beginning of the book of Yehoshua, and draws comparisons between them, illustrating this gradual transition from the supernatural to mundane. 

10. Yehoshua Perek 2

    Jesse Salem | 21 minutes

    This lecture provides an overview of Yehoshua Perek 2, which describes Yehoshua sending spies to Yericho, and also deals with the contrast between Yehoshua's spies and Moshe's spies in Sefer Bamidbar. 

     

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