Sivan 13, 5771 · June 15, 2011 | General Overview:
| Moses sends scouts to Canaan and all of them -- except Joshua and Caleb -- bring back frightening reports. The people react fearfully and rebelliously. G‑d decrees a forty year delay until the Israelites will enter Canaan, during which time all males between the ages of twenty and sixty will perish. Many Israelites then attempt to unilaterally proceed to Canaan, but are cut down by the Canaanites. Various laws are discussed: libations, giving part of the dough ("challah") to a Kohain (Priest), certain sin sacrifices, and the mitzvah of tzitzit. A Jew is found desecrating the Shabbat and is executed. |
 | By Mendel Kalmenson |  |
|  | | THE PARSHAH | | | Numbers 13:1–15:41
Overly spiritual spies, the first Tisha B'Av, quixotic mountain scalers, consecrated dough, wrongly gathered sticks and rightly knotted strings, and quantities of meal, wine and oil . . .
|  |  | | COLUMNISTS | | | We weren't "tourists" or "sightseers"; we were backpackers. Or so we believed.
By Elisha Greenbaum |  | | | | On recognizing our talents and how to perceive others.
By Mordechai Wollenberg | | | | | I'll leave you room to err, says G‑d, because you will rebuild – grander, stronger, and more beautiful edifices.
By Sara Hecht | | | | FEATURED VIDEO | | | Shelach Parshah Report
When Moses sent spies to scout the land of Israel, they saw giant grapes, got scared, and ran away. In this edition of the Week in Rejew, Jono interviews one of them (one of the giant grapes, that is). Dovid Taub & Jonathan Goorvich | | | | | Torah Portion of Shelach
The bond between Moses and his disciple Caleb was not always known to all—even to Caleb himself. By Mendel Kaplan | | | | FEATURED AUDIO CLASSES | | | This week's Torah portion teaches the Laws of Tzitzit: In Chassidic circles it is customary for men to begin wearing the Tallit at marriage, what is the connection between marriage and the Tallit? By Moshe New | | | | | A five minute weekly Torah insight based on the wellsprings of Torah and Chassidut. By J. Immanuel Schochet | | | | | An in depth look at the weekly Parshah based on the talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe By Manis Friedman | | | | |  |
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