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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>From: Micha Berger <micha@aishdas.org><BR><BR>>> Anyone
who believes in Daas Torah want to address the obvious question<BR>posed by the
meraglim? Unlike the question posed by those who said to<BR>stay in Europe
rather than flee before the Nazis, it is difficult to<BR>say Hashem wanted us to
be misled, given His spoken response to our<BR>accepting the report.
<<<BR><BR>-Micha</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Rashi answers the question. He says that if you want to
sell a donkey and the prospective buyer asks you, "Can I take it out
for a test drive? Can I check under the hood? Can I kick the tires?"
-- you will say, "Sure go ahead" and then the buyer won't even bother doing it
because he sees you have total confidence in your sechorah. The meraglim
should have taken "Yes, you can go" for assurance that E'Y was everything
G-d had promised.</DIV>
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<DIV>Whereas if you say, "No, don't touch it, don't look at it too closely" the
buyer will be suspicious that you know there is something wrong with the donkey
(car). Hashem gave the go-ahead and that should have been enough for the
B'Y to know there was no actual need to go check out the Land. Nothing
forced the meraglim to actually go or forced B'Y to actually send spies.
We know not from Parshas Shelach but from a different parsha in Sefer Devarim
somewhere that the initiative to send spies didn't come from Moshe but from a
disgruntled, suspicious crowd.</DIV>
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<DIV>If you are asking a different question -- did Hashem's foreknowledge of
what they were going to do take away the meraglim's bechirah? -- then that
is a different question, addressed in Pirkei Avos, "Hakol tzafui vehareshus
nesunah."</DIV>
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