[Avodah] Tisha b'Av and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 01:40:47PM -0400, Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer wrote:
: The answer is rooted in the Cheit HaMeraglim, the "original sin" of Tisha
: b'Av in which all the day's later tragedies are rooted. What was the
: cause of that sin? As I heard many years ago from Mori v'Rabi Rabbi Shimon
: Zelaznik zt"l, the Zohar HaKadosh explains that, great individuals that
: the Nesi'im who were sent to be the Meraglim were, they were concerned
: that upon entering Eretz Yisroel all Jews would be holy and lofty,
: and their nesi'us would no longer be necessary. This negi'a led them
: to mistakenly conclude that it would be better -- not only subjectively
: but even objectively -- for Am Yisroel to remain outside of the Land of
: Israel, so as to benefit from the leadership of the Nesi'im.

To reinforce the point:

Why did Yehoshua need a berakhah to stay on-course but Kaleiv did not?

Yehoshua was the naar who told Moshe about Eldad uMeidad saying nevu'ah
about Moshe not reaching EY. Yehoshua wanted his rebbe's leadership as
long as possible, which meant he had a vested interested in not seeing
EY and BY fit for eachother, just yet.

Kaleiv, OTOH, was to be the 2nd nasi of sheivet Yehudah. Had we entered
EY wth "vayehi binsoa ha'aron ... veyafutzu oyevekha ..." Kaleiv could
have been melekh. His personal interest was in favor of being a proper
merageil.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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