[Avodah] Kivrey Avos

[Zev Sero]

On 19/06/2012 11:11 AM, Micha Berger wrote:
>
> : But my query was not about the spies seeking salvation through prayer but
> : about them WANTING to visit Kivrey Avos. These days it would be unthinkable
> : that any ehrlicher Yid, other than those who as a matter of principle,
> : would visit EY and not visit Mekomos HaKedoshim.
>
> Maybe: ha'oseiq bemitzvah patur min hamitzvah. Unless the visit would
> help the mission HQBH told Moshe to send them on, maybe it would have
> been wrong to interrupt it for the visit.

Note that Malbim reads "vayavo ad Chevron" not as Calev taking a side-
trip while the others were doing something else, but as *all* of them
going to Chevron, one at a time, so as not to attract attention, because
it was a stronghold.  But he still says that Calev was the only one to
daven at Mearas Hamachpela while he was there.   He doesn't say why, but
based on this explanation one can speculate that they didn't want to all
go, even individually, because it might attract attention for so many
visitors to go to this one obscure place on the same day.

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