Parsha Poster #37 – Shelach: Clandestine vintage And Moshe sent them to spy out the land of Ca

Parsha Poster #37 – Shelach: Clandestine vintage And Moshe sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them: ‘Go up here into the South, and go up into the mountains; and see the land, how it is; and the people who live there, if they are strong or weak, if they are few or many; and how the land is that they dwell in, if it is good or bad; and what are the cities that they dwell in, if in camps, or in strongholds; and how the land is, if it is fat or lean, if there is wood there or not. And be strong, and bring from the fruit of the land.’ … And they (the spies) came to the valley of Eshkol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; and also from of the pomegranates, and from the figs. — Num. 13:17-20, 23 Buy this poster here.Subscribe to get the parsha in your email weekly. The Bible and You, The Bible and You, and Other Midrashim (15)by Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000), as published in The Poetry of Yehuda AmichaiMoses sent many spies to tour the Promised Landand not just twelve, as it is written. They toured and snapped photoswith their eyes, felt up the trees and springs and stones with their hands,measured the height of hills and houses, took the measure of pretty women,strong men, ripe fruit, girls’ thighs.Twelve spies returned to the desert. Ten brought backa slander of the land. Two praised the landand brought back a cluster of gigantic grapes, but they brought no giants, no pretty women, no grasshoppers.And the story says nothing about the hundreds of spies who stayed behinddeep in the fat of the land of Canaan, who slept with the wives of the giantsand ate of the fruit on every high hill and under every green tree.And they, who came to see the land in her nakedness,sang into her and forgot the desert. -- source link

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