Torah from Sinai

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  Friday, June 24, 2022 / 25 Sivan 5782

  Perspective can make or break the world.

  What is dismissed as small or unimportant, could in fact be crucial.
  Where some people see problems, others see not problems but challenges.
  Bigger might not always be better, nor is more sophisticated always the most efficacious.
  When some see crisis, others see opportunity.
  When some fearfully warn, others encourage hope…

  In this week’s Torah portion, Sh’lach Lecha, spies are sent to scout out the Promised Land. All the spies see the same things. Except for Joshua and Caleb, the spies give a bad report on the Land and express fear and doom if they try to enter it. Joshua and Caleb give a glowing report and express the hope that the Land is there for them to take and inhabit. The people hear the fear and take the warning. As a result, the entire generation of Israelites proves itself unworthy of going to the Promised Land. They wander the desert for another 38 years or so until they all die off in the wilderness. It will fall to a new generation to go up and conquer the Land on which to build the utopian society the Torah prescribes.