[Avodah] Regarding the two occasions of the m'raglim

[Liron Kopinsky]

>
> My point was that it wasn't necessary in the first place to send
> m'raglim. That indicated a deficiency in bitachon.
> ri


I heard an interesting understanding of the story of the Meraglim. If you
read through the peshat very carefully, it seems that the spies were tasked
with finding out about the land - is it good, is it bad, is it fortified
etc. and they messed up when they editorialized (by saying "Efes/but we
cannot...").

In reality the sending of the spies on their fact-finding mission wasn't a
lack of bitachon, but rather was proper planning for entering the land. It
is important to know, for example, if all the cities are fortified and you
need to bring seige weponary etc.

Kol Tuv,
~Liron
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