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How could the spies, all considered men, come to sin? Moreover, as
Rashi explains, their entire journey was shrouded in sin. Moshe knew of
their evil intentions and therefore added the letter to the name of
Hoshea. Why didn’t he see fit to prevent their going to scout the Land in
the first place, or, at the very least, add Hashem’s Name to all of theirs?
Hashem punished Bnei Yisrael with forty years of wandering in the “In the way man wishes to go, he is led.” The intentions of the spies were
Wilderness. It was a fitting punishment for scouting the Land; a year for rotten from the outset. They wanted to continue ruling over the people.
a day. Why didn’t Hashem shorten their way in the Land, in order to They knew that the first mitzvah upon entering the Land was appointing
lessen their punishment? Chazal state that Hashem did make their journey a king. But because they wanted to retain their positions of prestige, they
into Eretz Yisrael take less time than normal. Why didn’t He shorten it defamed the Land before the nation. This would scare Bnei Yisrael away
even more? from it, and they would continue ruling. Had Moshe prevented them from
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