Turning point! This week B’nai Israel finds itself within spitting distance of the Promised Land. But to YHWH’s apparent annoyance they send spies to check out the scene. The spies’ report makes the Hebrews feel worse than Chicago Cubs fans in August. They, as usual, begin to question the whole wilderness crossing project. YHWH, also as usual, throws a Holy Hissy Fit. She declares, “game over,” that the tribe should turn around and head back toward the Red Sea and that everybody who doubted her, as in the whole generation She took out of Egypt, will die in the desert. Sounds like she was getting advice from Dick Cheney.
- SHABBAT SHALOM! - a & s
