[Avodah] Vayikra Moshe l'Hoshea bin Nun Yehoshua

[Ilana Sober Elzufon]

>
> RMBluke: 2. Why daven only for Yehoshua? Yehoshua was probably the greatest
> of
> the meraglim, why would Moshe worry that he would sin? At the time
> that they were picked all of the Meraglim were tzadikim, why didn't
> Moshe daven for all of them?


I happened to see a Meshech Chochma on this. IIRC, he says that since
Yehoshua was the leader of the army in the battle with Amalek, the people
would give special weight to his words. They would say: If Yehoshua - who
fought Amalek and won - says we cannot conquer the land, then he must
certainly be right. Thus, for Yehoshua to fall into the eitzah of the other
meraglim would have meant certain catastrophe.

As things turned out, of course, the people seem not to have given such an
overwhelmingly great weight to Yehoshua's words when he came back with a
positive report.

- Ilana
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