📜 Parashat Shelach

Numbers · portion 37 of 54 Numbers 13:1–15:41

What happens this week?

Moses sends twelve spies to scout the Land of Canaan. They return with a giant cluster of grapes, but ten spies say the people there are giants and "we were like grasshoppers."

Only Joshua and Caleb say, "We can do it!" The people are afraid and cry, so they must wander in the desert for 40 years. The portion ends with tzitzit — fringes to remind people of the commandments.

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