Sarah II-Joshua

"Listen, I have to give a dvar torah for class, but I don't know if it'll pass. Will you hear it out for a sec?"

"OK, sure. This is for Rav Klamen's class?"

"Right. OK, parsha is Shalach, the one with the spies, right."

"OK."

"Yehoshua and Calev, are the only two spies who don't seem perturbed by the fact that the land has giants in it, or at least larger than average sized humans."

"Right..."

"Perek yod gimmel, pasuk tet, �� ���� ��-�� ���� �� ������ ��...'' (al tirem et-am haaretz ki lechmanu hem) Don't fear the inhabitants because they will be our bread."

"Fine."

"Now, later in the parsha, perek tet vav, pasuk yud tet: '���� ������ ���� ���� ����� ����� ��'' (vehaya be'achalchem milechem ha'aretz trumo trumah la hashem) And when you eat of the bread of the land offer part of it as a sacrifice to God."

"Well...yeah..."

"The other spies died, according to Rashi, in this rather disgusting way, with their tongues taking their belly buttons, their navels exploding, yadda yadda yadda, and it goes on to say that Yehoshua and Calev lived off of the deceased."

"I recall that."

"So, last week, the children of Israel complained that they had no meat. They had meat; they had all of the cattle and livestock they took from the Egyptians. They wanted poultry though."

"Right."

"OK...so...maybe...Joshua and Calev were interested in a...different... type...of meat..." I repeat the four lines of souurce again.

"Uhm, Michael..."

"So, can you think of any Gedolim I could find that would agree with me? It would help if I could have a source."

"Well, I could give you some Medieval Rabbis who didn't say much, but..."

"Rav Klamen won't go for this?"

"No."

The survey went six to one against giving it, with only my chevrutah, Zev thinking it would be a good idea. So, I gave a more acceptable one instead. I finish it and the rabbi asks, "Very nice Michael, ok, does anybody have anything to add?" So, Zev starts up with my older one. I cringed, but he was getting it wrong, so I corrected him, and laid it all out, nervously, in front of the Rabbi and the class, most of whom had already heard it and were rolling their eyes.

"Hmmm, yeah that's true. I think there are other sources you could find on that."

OK, granted, he is a bit hard of hearing, but I now have a legitimate Rabbinical agreement on this one. I never got to show him the stuff on Sarah, though.

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