Jeremy Rosen
Making Sense of the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be Relevant Today? Numbers 13:16, Good Spies, Bad Spies
Summary
Study the text of the Bible weekly with Jeremy Rosen through a combination of traditional, critical, and personal perspectives. No knowledge of Hebrew or the Bible is necessary. You may use any Bible text you may have or you can go to sefaria.org. This week will begin with Numbers 13:16, good spies, bad spies.
Jeremy Rosen
Manchester-born Jeremy Rosen was educated at Cambridge University England and Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has practiced as an orthodox rabbi, as principal of Carmel College in the UK, and as professor at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium. He has written and lectured extensively in the UK and the US, where he now resides and was the rabbi of the Persian-Jewish community in Manhattan.
A lot of people argue that the reason that this crisis came was because so many Jews were assimilating into Persian society and were not that committed. On the other hand, I think about the fact that if you go through the Talmud, you constantly see arguments, disagreements going on all the time.
An excellent point. I suppose you could say it was theft. I suppose you might argue that they felt that they had Moses’ approval to do it. It was a necessary means to an end.
He isn’t mentioned there, but he’s mentioned twice afterwards, so why was he left out there? Possibly because Joshua already has the imprimatur of Moses, so you expect him to say something.