Sponsored by Sharona,
Josh, Dov, Moshe and Yehuda Halickman
in Honor of Chaim Snow’s Birthday
In Parshat Shlach, while twelve men were sent to scout out
the
live there.
What problem did the ten other scouts find with the land?
While scouting out the land, the scouts encountered a lot of
challenges. In Bamidbar 13:30 only Kalev and Yehoshua said that they were up
for the challenge, that they were ready to go up: “We can surely go up to the
land and we shall possess it for we are surely able to overcome it.”
Living in
today also comes with a lot of challenges. Some of the latest issues are from
within the chief rabbinate.
While in
I saw a letter in the Jewish Week entitled “Losing Faith in
pluralistic enough and he doesn’t know how much longer he will continue to
defend her. By making comments like that the author of the letter is behaving
like one of the ten scouts.
Those who care about
refuse to visit. Those who care will make a commitment to help resolve some of
the problems. They will make an effort to move to
and make changes from within like Rabbi Riskin who brought Modern Orthodoxy to
will stand behind and support those who are courageous enough to work on making
a difference.
Only a small portion of Israelis call themselves Modern
Orthodox. The only way to get the demographics to change is for more Modern
Orthodox teachers and rabbis to make aliya.
We need to stand up for Israel and try to make changes from
within as Yehoshua and Kalev did when they merited to enter the Land of Israel
rather than abandon her as the other ten scouts did.
The reason that almost the entire generation of the scouts died
in the desert was because they followed the ten scouts and agreed with them
that they did not want to enter the land.
The more Jews that come to
the more of an impact we can have.
This in not the time to abandon
behind her and work on making changes from within.
