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🗓️ 22 June 2016
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0:00.0 | Two kinds of fear. |
0:05.0 | One of the most powerful addresses I ever heard was given by the Lubavichur-Roube Rabbi Menach and Mendel Schneerson on this week's Parishar, the story of the spies. |
0:15.0 | For me, it was nothing less than life-changing. He asked the obvious questions. How could ten of the spies have come back |
0:22.1 | with a demoralizing defeatist report? How could they say we can't win? The people are stronger |
0:27.0 | than us. Their cities are well-fortified. They are giants and we are grasshoppers. They'd seen with |
0:32.8 | their own eyes how God had sent a series of plagues that brought Egypt the strongest and longest lived of all the |
0:39.0 | empires in the ancient world to its knees. They had seen the Egyptian army with its cutting-edge |
0:44.7 | military technology, the horse-drawn chariot, drown in the reed sea while the Israelites passed |
0:50.9 | through it on dry land. Egypt was far stronger than the Canaanites, |
0:55.5 | Peresites, Jebusites, and the other minor kingdoms that they'd had to confront in conquering the |
1:00.9 | land. Nor was this an ancient memory. It happened not much more than a year before. What is more |
1:06.8 | they already knew that far from being giants confronting grasshoppers, the people of the |
1:12.4 | land were terrified of the Israelites. They said so themselves in the course of singing the song |
1:18.1 | at the sea. Shamu Amir Ghazun, the people have heard, they tremble, pangs of seas, the inhabitants |
1:24.5 | of Philistia. Now the chiefs of Adam dismayed, trembling seizes the leaders |
1:30.0 | of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. Terror and dread fall upon them, |
1:36.3 | because of the greatness of your arm, they are as still a stone. The people of the land were |
1:41.4 | afraid of the Israelites. Why then were the spies afraid of them? |
1:46.0 | What's more, continued, the rabbi, the spies were not people plucked at random from among the |
1:50.8 | population. The terrorist states that they were all of the men who were heads of the people of |
1:55.2 | Israel. There were leaders. There were people not given likely to fear. The questions are straightforward. But the answer the |
2:05.1 | rubber gave was utterly unexpected. The spies were not afraid of failure, he said. They were |
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