[Avodah] Shelach

[Ilana Sober Elzufon]

RRW: The story in the Haftara are the Tiqqun and redemption for the Torah
Portion..

Especially when you realize that the situation of fear and trembling of the
Canaanites that Rachav described had been going on for forty years - since
yetziat Mitzrayim. It was already the case at the time of Parshat Shlach!

The spies in Parshat Shlach apparently did not speak with any actual
Canaanites. They toured much of the land and would seem to have done a very
thorough job, but they missed the ikkar. OTOH, the spies in Sefer Yehoshua
didn't manage to see much of anything except the inside of Rachav's house
and the top of her roof - but that was all they needed for their mission to
be successful.

So much of what we see depends on where we look - and on what we are looking
for.

- Ilana
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