Shelach

The Alef Kabbala group (14 June 2011) studied an unedited discourse for Sedra Shelach, taught in 1985, telling us about the Twelve Spies who gave a bad report about the Land of Israel. Surely the Spies were hand-picked by Moses? How could they have fallen into such error? The discourse discusses the idea taught by the first Chabad Rebbe that the Spies could not face the practical realities of entry into the Land. Hence they prefetred the spirituality of the desert. Rabbi Isaac Luria explained that the souls of the Spies were from the World of Thought.