Shelach - שלח : "Send thou"
Torah : Numbers 13:1-15:41
Haftarah : Joshua 2:1-24
Gospel : John 7, 8

Thought for the Week:

People say, "Every cloud has its silver lining." The pessimist sees the cloud. The optimist sees the silver lining. The man of faith sees the cloud and the silver lining both. He gives thanks to God who made the cloud, provides the rain, and clears the sky.

Commentary:

But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it. (Numbers 14:24)

The LORD spared the children of Israel, but He punished them by consigning them to forty years of wandering in the wilderness. He declared that they would never see the Promised Land that they had rejected. Instead their bodies would be buried in the wilderness. Their children, however, would be privileged to enter the land.

Even Moses, Miriam and Aaron were inclu...