[Avodah] Moshe's reasoning

[Doron Beckerman]

The problem with the two tribes staying back was not that they were not
going to participate in the battle. Shevet Levi didn't participate either.
The problem with that was, as Moshe says explicitly, that they were like the
Meraglim who discouraged entering into the land at all. Providing the comfy
option of staying *out* of EY where others might easily prefer that over
toughing out the war of conquest was the problem. So it isn't the people
*in* EY who don't fight who parallel Reuven and Gad. They parallel Shevet
Levi. It is the people who live comfy lives in Chutz LaAretz who discourage
toughing it out in EY who have the 'splainin to do.
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