Hi, and welcome back to the daily study. Today is Tuesday, and we're looking inside at the third reading of the weekly Torah portion of Shilah. The overwhelming majority of the Jewish people accepted the other spies' conclusions, threatening to kill Caleb and Yoshua, for being different than them. Since the people demonstrated that they lacked the faith in God necessary to enable them to conquer and live in the land of Israel, God informed Moshe that this generation would have to die in the desert.
Only the next generation would enter the Promised Land. Eem Yeru Etaritz Asharini Shwati Labotamvakomir, and God told Mosheh all those who did not listen to my voice and will not see the land that I swore to their fathers. The generation of the Exodus did not work hard enough to learn from the divine miracles they witnessed. They therefore remained subject to their slave mentality, the assumption that reality is enslaved to the laws of nature, and that God is unwilling or incapable of overriding them whenever he chooses.
The spies and their followers unfortunately lost the privilege of entering the Promised Land, because in order to remain true to our divine mission, we need to be leading material lives. We need to believe that this is indeed possible to live a material life and simultaneously a spiritual one too. We should take care to recognize the implications of all the divine miracles that we have witnessed, both throughout Jewish history and in our own personal lives. Only then will we be capable of fulfilling our divine mission of making the world into God's home.
And in this merit, we will experience our miraculous return to the Promised Land led by Mosheh in the final redemption.