30. Shelach 5779: Shattered Silence -Learning How To Engage

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/TheLighthouseProjectMiami/videos/2081363682158946/ Notes: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4rjxckrxy7s7rj/30.%20Shelach%205779%20-Shattered%20Silence%20-Learning%20How%20To%20Engage.pdf?dl=0 At large, people don’t succeed because of what they didn’t do, and people haven’t failed because of what they did do. Rather, people succeed because of what they were brave enough to do, while others have failed because of what they were too afraid to do. What we have just learned is that in order to succeed we need to engage, and in order to engage, we need to be brave. Well, how does one acquire braveness? Let us take a look at what is the definition of being brave? Being brave does not mean to not have fears, as much as it means to have fears, and to move forward anyway. Thus, we now better understand what we are looking to acquire. We aren’t looking to acquire fearlessness, rather, we are looking to accept our fears, and to move forward anyway. What does it take to allow yourself to be afraid, and to then move forward anyway, despite the fear of doing so? This is the modern-day issue of this lecture. This lecture is based primarily on a maamor the Rebbe delivered on this Shabbat, in 1965, exploring why the Twelve Spies, who were righteous leaders of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, were afraid for the Children of Israel to enter into the Promised Land, and wanted instead for the Children of Israel to remain in isolation in the Sinai desert.