P arshas Shelach
“Send for yourself men who will scout the Land of Canaan…” (Bamidbar 13:2)
Rashi comments on the words “for yourself.” Hashem said to Moshe “You determine if you should send Meraglim; I’m not commanding you to send them.”
Rashi’s explanation paints a perplexing picture. Hashem warned Moshe that the mission of the spies was fraught with possibilities that Bnei Yisrael might err. Wasn’t Moshe concerned about the danger?
We find that Moshe did show concern by adding the letter “yud” to Yehoshua’s name to protect him from the spies’ conspiracy (Bamidbar 13: 16). Why then did Moshe send the spies at all? (Rav Dovid Hofstedter Dorash Dovid)
