[Avodah] meraglim

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer]

On 6/6/2010 12:48 PM, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
> when the meraglim were punished, for what part of the message was it?

I think the chet ha'meraglim is hinted by the many pesukim later in the
parashah that focus on geirim: They should have assumed that v'ra'u kol
amei ha'aretz ki shem Hashem nikra alecha v'yaru mimecha would lead the
indigenous peoples to become, at least, gerei toshav.

YGB