<span style="color: rgb(47, 76, 90); font-family: Signika; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This class was presented on Thursday, 21 Sivan, 5784, Parshas Shlach, June 27, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

What if Hashem Was Not Triggered by a Fit of Rage to Annihilate His People?

Likkutei Sichos Shlach #2

The Incredible Divine Love to Every Jewish Soul

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Something very disturbing emerges during the story of the spies. When G-d tells Moses He will annihilate the entire nation, Moshe argues that this will cause the Egyptians to claim that G-d was incapable of bringing the people into the Promised Land. Could Moses not find any other rationale to influence G-d not to annihilate an entire nation of some three million people, men, women, and children, save the fact that it won&rsquo;t look good for the neighbors?!
Moshe should have said: &ldquo;These are Your creatures, which you created. These are Your children, Your nation, which You have taken out of Egypt and chosen as Your people! Have compassion for them!&rdquo; This is exactly what he said at a previous disaster when the nation constructed the Golden Calf, and G-d wanted to annihilate them.
At the Fabrengen of Shabbos Parshas Shlach 5740 (1980), published in Likkutei Sichos vol. 23 Shlach, the Lubavitcher Rebbe offered a paradigm shift in understanding rewards and punishments in the Torah.

How Are We to Understand the Punishments in the Torah?

Likkutei Sichos Shlach #1

Why Doesn’t Moshe Protest the Annihilation of 3 Million Jews?!

This text-based class on Likkutei Sichos vol. 23 Shlach explains how the spies can fall so lowly.

Will the Real Meraglim Please Stand Up?

Likkutei Sichos -- Shlach

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