[Avodah] Miriam and Aharon

[Ken Bloom]

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 00:55, T613K at aol.com wrote:
> [question from my husband --TK]
>
> I was asked why only Miriam was punished for speaking lashon hara
> about Moshe.  The pasuk clearly states that Aharon did so as well. 
> Why  wasn't he also punished?  I know that there are opinions that he
> also was  stricken but the parsha does not spell that out.  Can you
> ask your areivim  pals if anyone knows?

Miriam spoke, Aharon listened, and the lashon harah was about Moshe.
All three died before entering Eretz Yisrael. According to some, Miriam 
was the *only* woman who died in the midbar (since the women weren't 
involved in the sin of the maraglim), and all of the other women 
entered Eretz Yisrael. I've heard (and I don't recall the source) that 
the incident involving the rock was supposed to be a tikkun for this 
lashon harah, and Moshe and Aharon died because they didn't perform the 
tikkun correctly.

--Ken

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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