Parashat Sh’lach L’kha
26 Sivan 5776 / 1-2 July
2016
Torah: Numbers 13:1 – 15:41
Haftarah: Joshua 2:1-24
Dedications and upcoming events follow below. Full calendar and lots of other info available at: www.bethmeier.org
Haftarah: Joshua 2:1-24
Dedications and upcoming events follow below. Full calendar and lots of other info available at: www.bethmeier.org
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UNSPOKEN TRUTH
The Lord is slow to anger
and abounding in kindness; forgiving iniquity and transgression; yet not
remitting all punishment, but visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children,
upon the third and fourth generations. Numbers 14:18
The Lord passed before him
and proclaimed: “The Lord! The Lord, a God who is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in kindness and faithfulness (emet – truth),
extending kindness to the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity,
transgression, and sin; yet He does not remit all punishment, but visits the
iniquity of parents upon children and children’s children, upon the third and
fourth generations.” Exodus 34:6-7
Ramban (Rabbi Moses ben
Nachman, aka Nachmanides) teaches, “Now Moses mentioned among the [Divine]
attributes ‘slow to anger’ and ‘abounding in kindness’, but he did not mention
‘truth’, for according to the attribute of truth they would have been guilty.”
Rabbi Yitzchak in the name
of Rabbi Hiyya said, “Why is ‘truth’ missing here? Because they (the spies)
themselves caused it to be removed from here, for they were liars, and a person
is treated in the same way he behaves.” Zohar Sh’lach L’kha, 161b
When God displayed His glory
to Moses, He described his attributes as indicated in the Exodus text. However,
when in our parashah Moses asks God to pardon the spies, and the people
generally, he reminds God of only some of those attributes, omitting “truth”.
Ramban says that Moses did not mention it, because if God applied “truth”, they
would be sternly judged. Perhaps Moses was hoping for less anger and more
kindness, ignoring some of the facts – i.e., compassion (which he also did not
mention!).
Rabbi Yitzchak implies that
Moses omitted “truth” because the spies lied about the Land of Israel
Whatever the case, the spies
and every other Israelite over the age of 20, except Joshua and Caleb, were
punished by not being allowed to enter the land – they died in the desert. It’s
not nice to lie. And that’s the truth!
Shabbat Shalom!
Rabbi Richard A. Flom
Congregation Beth Meier - Studio
City , CA
Blogging at: www.rav-rich.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @DrahcirMolf
"From the place where we are absolutely right, flowers will never grow
in the spring."
"מן המקום שבו אנו צודקים לא יצמחו לעולם פרחים באביב"
Yehuda Amichai
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Candlelighting: 7:50 pm
Friday: Shabbat Evening Service – 8:00 pm. Oneg
Shabbat follows.
Saturday: Shabbat Morning Service – 10:00 am – Bar
Mitzvah of Jaxon Malcolm – Mazal Tov to Jaxon and to his parents Jeffrey and
Lisa Malcolm! Kiddush lunch follows.
Tuesday: NO Lunch and Learn – Rabbi Flom
serving on bet din
Friday, 8 July: Family Shabbat Evening Service –
7:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.
Saturday, 9 July: Shabbat Morning
Service – 10:00 am. Kiddush lunch follows.
Tuesday, 12 July: Lunch and
Learn – 12:00 Noon.
Next time you come to Beth Meier, please bring some
non-perishable canned and packaged foods and personal items (no glass) for
SOVA.
This d’var torah is offered in honor of Jaxon Malcolm, becoming a bar
mitzvah this Shabbat. Mazal tov!
This d’var torah is offered in memory of all those murdered in the Istanbul Airport
This d’var torah is offered in memory of 13-y-o Israeli Hallel Yaffa Ariel,
murdered in her bed by a Palestinian terrorist. May her memory be a blessing.
This d'var torah is offered for a refuah shleimah for Avi Shmuel
Yosef Hakohen ben Bella, HaRav
Yisrael Shimon ben Liebah Breina, Yaakov Rani
Ben Margalit, Miriam Minya bat Alisa Batya, Sarah bat Devorah, Jackie
Aaronson, Susan Arbetman, Scott Beatty, Ken Bitticks, Elsbet Brosky, Jerry
Daniels, Beverly Erenbaum (Blimah bat Sarah), Maya Fersht (Maya bat Esther), Dr.
Samuel Fersht (Shmuel Natan ben Gittel), Leonard Foint (Eliezer Moshe ben
Esther), Jerry Forman, Barry Glass (Berel ben Feigel), Myra Goodman,
Stephanie Kane, Philip Kovac, Carolynne Lavoie-Schwartz, Toni Linder,
Deborah Schugar Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya Feiga), and Beatrice Weide (Bayla
bat Malkah).
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