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Shelach (For Shabbat Sat. 17th June –23rd Sivan) - Laibl's weekly parsha video

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Channel: Spiritgrow · 2017 · Education

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Shelach (Sat. 17th June –23rd Sivan)
Can You Trust Your Spies?

SUMMARY: 
Moses sent out spies and they failed. We also send out our spies – five of them, our five senses – to explore the world and come back with a good report. Train your senses to seek positivity and goodness in others.

Notes:
•Our Sedra opens with the famous episode of Moses sending the spies out to the Land of Israel. The mission is a dismal failure because the spies could not be trusted. Only two of the twelve, Joshua and Calev, were true to the mission.
•Each one of us has a re-incarnative mission in life. But we need to determine the ‘lie of the land’ – our life setting. We need to send out spies.
•Our ‘spies are our five senses – our feelers. We observe the people around us. We listen to their words. We are touched by some and touch others ourselves. We empathize with their tastes or are reviled by them. And we can sniff out what makes them tick or fail. 
•But the mission cannot afford us being a sensory dilettante – savoring the different elements of society and environment for our fickle enjoyment. Our goal is to navigate our life’s path to enhance others’ lives and to make the world a better place. 
•To achieve these essential life goals, we need to imprint on our ‘spies’ - our senses - the goals of the mission: to see good, to hear their pain, to feel empathy, to taste their sweetness, and to wear our own good scent of positivity.
•Train your spies to do their job well.

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