[Avodah] Shelach

[Ilana Sober Elzufon]

CW: "Nevertheless, four decades later, we have a second mission where he
implements the same strategy to gather intelligence about the Land."

Not exactly the same strategy.

The first group was a relatively large military delegation who traveled the
entire country. It is not clear exactly how they avoided interacting with
the Canaanites - according to Rashi, G-d deliberately brought about enough
deaths that everyone was involved in mourning and didn't pay attention to
them.

The second delegation was two spies who came in "cheresh" - either secretly,
or disguised as pedlars of earthenware pots. Their mission seems to have
been more limited and focused from the outset. They gathered intelligence
just by talking to Rachav (although they presumably intended to do some more
extensive spying as well, if they had not been found out).

- Ilana
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