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knew he was humble and would not speak up to defend himself. It was # nation. He was inspired to do this in the merit of his father, Yefuneh, who
considered as if she spoke behind his back. taught him never to postpone spiritual pursuits. He learned this from
Yehoshua, as well, who did not detach himself from his teacher, Moshe,
If Miriam, who did not have negative intentions, was punished, all the thereby being spared from the sin of the Golden Calf and meriting to lead
more so were the spies, who purposely spoke disparagingly, deserving of the nation. The name stands for the (twenty-two) letters of the
retribution. How can we compare Miriam’s speaking about a human being Hebrew alphabet, and the letter refers to (Torah study).
to the spies’ report about an inanimate land? Speaking about the Land of The gematria of the name is fifty-two, the same as double that of the
milk and honey is akin to speaking against Heaven itself. For this, they Ineffable Name . The merit of the Torah afforded him Hashem’s
were held accountable. exclusive supervision.

Included in the sin of the spies was the fact that they wished to defer entry
into Eretz Yisrael, thus denying Bnei Yisrael the opportunity to observe
the mitzvot of the Land. Thus they would damage the entire Torah. For
this, they were punished.

The pasuk states, “They went and came to Moshe and to Aharon.” Both
their coming and going were with evil intentions. The Zohar explains that
when they returned from scouting the Land, they sought to speak “But the men who had ascended with him said:
negatively about it, in order that Am Yisrael should be scared to enter, We cannot ascend to that people for it is
and thereby they would maintain their posts as Nesi’im. But the Torah stronger than us!”
calls them distinguished men. Why was even their going considered evil? (Bamidbar 13:31)
On their great level, they should have obviated the need among the nation
for touring the Land. They should, instead, have strengthened the level of
the people’s emunah, trusting that the Land was just as good as Hashem
had promised. Their encouragement to send forth spies proved that they
had evil intentions from the start.