<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">RMBluke: 2. Why daven only for Yehoshua? Yehoshua was probably the greatest of<br>
the meraglim, why would Moshe worry that he would sin? At the time<br>
that they were picked all of the Meraglim were tzadikim, why didn't<br>
Moshe daven for all of them?</blockquote></div><br>I happened to see a Meshech Chochma on this. IIRC, he says that since Yehoshua was the leader of the army in the battle with Amalek, the people would give special weight to his words. They would say: If Yehoshua - who fought Amalek and won - says we cannot conquer the land, then he must certainly be right. Thus, for Yehoshua to fall into the eitzah of the other meraglim would have meant certain catastrophe.<br>
<br>As things turned out, of course, the people seem not to have given such an overwhelmingly great weight to Yehoshua's words when he came back with a positive report.<br><br>- Ilana<br></div>