Hope u guys didn’t lose faith in me!!!!! i just didnt have a chance to reply, but thanks for all the comments!!!!
here goes this weeks feable attempt ( sorry….. its on shlach)
If we were ever presented with a nisayon like the one the meraglim went through, we would DEF pass it! right? i mean there is no chance in the world that we could far so far, so fast, right? i’m sure these r pretty much the thoughts that go thru all of our (i.e. MY) mind when we read shlach every year, and as a result we end up looking down at the entire dor hamidbar, and obviously at the meraglim who were their leaders, we conclude that there is nothing for us to really learn out of this episode (besides for the fact that ppl had weird names back then), and we just look elsewhere for inspiration (k, i might’ve exaggerated a bit, but let’s call it poetic license)
So what really went on back then? how can we actually make sense of the whole episode?
Firstly, let’s present the question very clearly, and then build it up, so that when we give the answer (which quite frankly is a very very simple, and yesodosdik answer) we will be able to see how the huge balloon we inflated POPS in 1 swift prick of a needle (k, i think i took the whole poetic thing a bit too far…..sowwy)
First attempt is to say that they honestly thought that (r”l) hashem didn’t have to power to take them in, and to that we say- hashem had made it very clear that the entire point of yeztiyas mitzrayim, and ALL the nissim which came along with it was so that bnet yisroel should receive the torah and the proceed to go into eretz yisroel. Would hashem really go thru all that trouble if he didn’t have an exact plan of how to get them in? Giants u say? the mitzrim were considered the world superpower at the time, and it didn’t really seem to bother hashem! he already showed that he was quite versatile with his powers, he beat the mitzrim on land, in the sea. u name it, and so why should these nations be any different? so there must have been something else going on!
And so, rashi tells us that there was indeed something else going on, the meraglim were scared that once they come into eretz yisroel they will loose their stature, they would lose their position. Huh? how could such a thing actually get the meraglim to do what they did????? so they would lose their position, that gives them the right to doom the entire nation? where is the logic in that? at least they should have had a plan B…….um let’s go back to mitzrayim, no no no no lets stay in the midbar FOREVER!!! once again totally nonsensical, and true ppl become corrupted when it comes to power, but we r not dealing with stam any ppl, these were the leaders (sarey chamishim, but nonetheless sarim!!!) of the jewish nation, so once again…….WHAT’S GOING ON?
Now, lets move on to the whole nation, what were they thinking???? after all they went thru? “ro’aso shifcha al hayam, ma shelo ra’a ben buzi” (i just LOVE the hebrish!), they had just gone through months of daily nisim, so what if there r 7 nations?
It goes like this. In reality (that is the real reality and not the olam hasheker “reality” which we seem to keep on thinking is the real one, “forcing” hashem to slap us every once in a while to wake us up… did anyone say financial crisis???) we never ever have a chance to beat the yetzer hora…EVER, the only way we ever do is with the help of hashem, he literally holds our hand and walks us through the nisayon, true we have to WANT to pass the nisayon and try as hard as we can, but at the end of the day, if it wasn’t for the help of hahsem we just wouldn’t have a chance.
Why were the meraglim sent? cuz the nation ask for ’em to be sent, they had a slip up in emunah, and they thought that they were the ones that would really be fighting the battle, and so they needed a PLAN, when in fact it was a situation of “hashem yilachem lachem ve’atem tacharishun” (i wasn’t actually gonna write that but it was the hebrish within that got me to do it!), as we see actually happened in yericho, and with the tzirah etc.
And so in affect (never sure if i get the right one) what bney yisroel were telling hashem was, “this one is on us”, we can take care of this one, hashem can take the day off, and the great jewish minds will figure out how to take care of these 7 nations….. and so, “bederech she’adam rotze leylech” (last one, i promise!!!). hashem let go…..
That was that, the second hashem let go, the second hashem left it up to us, we didn’t stand a chance of going through with it, true it made no sense, true with bney yisroels track record there was no reason for them to be scared, true the nations were petrified of us, just go through az yashir, just look at where the girgashi got their name from, but they chose to go on their own and so they stood no chance and they knew it……… (now all u wise aleks will be saying that if bney yisroel really had no chance then lemayse they did nothing wrong, cuz if they would have gone to fight in that situation [as did the ma’apilim] they would have lost, true but all they had to do was teshuva, and bring hashem “back” into the mix, and everything would have been fine and dandy…..)
SO…… do da (get it? dooda) meraglim have to do with us or not? how many times in our lives to we think that we r in a position to “take over”, we tell hashem to take a back seat and think we can handle things on our own……..IT WILL NEVER WORK!!! even the smallest most generic nisayon will be totally unpassable (not a real word? well then write it down…. and it will be!) if we try going “solo”. so just………DON’T