[Avodah] Shelach

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 05:44:45PM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
:> OTOH, who did he pick? The successful merageil from last time around -
:> Kaleiv, and a known zealot for HQBH - Pinechas.
:> - Micha

: But this is ONLY al pi midrash!

: My LOR growing up -R Wm. Cohen (not the senator!) - Darshened thusly:
...

Yes, the fact that it's al pi medrash gives your LOR room to say
otherwise.

I, OTOH, figured that the point I was making was part of the thesis of
the medrash.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 01:57:01PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: No, he doesn't.   He sends actual spies, secret agents whose names
: are not revealed, whom he chooses for their expertise, and trusts to
: report to him *in secret* on the enemy's military position and what
: weaknesses might be exploited....

But the medrash has him picking two prominent people as Kaleiv was one
of the people sent on MRAH's political junket and the other was in line
to be kohein gadol (Rashi 25:15, based on Zecachim 111b), if he wasn't
the kohein gadol yet..

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha