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Chabad Research Unit — Shlach 5784

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — Shlach 5784. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Summaries of points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫פרשת שלח תשכ''ה ד''ה להבין ענין טענת המרגלים בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Shelach 23 Sivan 5784, 29 June 20241 THE FEARS OF THE SPIES HY WERE THE SPIES FRIGHTENED ABOUT TRYING TO W ENTER THE LAND OF CANAAN? One is the fear that if the radiance of the Infinite would be revealed through the carrying out of Mitzvot (most of which pertain to the Land of Israel), there would be such a burst of spiritual energy that the inhabitants, the Jewish people, would be ‘devoured’4. The other explanation of “the land which devours its inhabitants” is the opposite: the spies were afraid that by going into the physical Land of Israel and being involved with the material aspects of ploughing and sowing and reaping, they would become so coarsened that they would no longer be sensitive to the holy 5. Their attempt to grapple with the material – which is rooted in the intense radiance of the Realm of Chaos – would make them feel abnegated with their light hidden, ‘blanked out’, as was described about the Sefirah Malchut in the first explanation above of the ‘abnegation of the land’. Moses expresses absolute humility, and by being bonded with him one loses one’s own hubris, and then one is able to transform the powerful radiance of Chaos, through daily life and Mitzvot, and rebuild a world of Repair, of Tikkun, in which G-dliness is revealed in an unthreatening and wholly positive way, in a world of good for all. [This can be understood as the inner humility of womanhood, a receptive quality which neutralizes any possible strident presence.] Consequently, the intense radiance of Chaos which led to the shattering of the other Sefirot was absorbed by Malchut. Chabad Research Unit – www.chabadresearch.net – cru@lubavitchuk.com These two kabbalistic-Chassidic explanations of the phrase from the Zohar link with two different explanations of the claim by the Spies that the Land devours its inhabitants. One is that in the process of the kabbalistic ‘breaking of the vessels’, which took place on account of their sense of self, hubris, Malchut the feminine Sefirah went through a stage of ‘abnegation’ but did not break. Our task is to engage with the material world, both in

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