Parsha: Sh’lach
Numbers 13:1-Numbers 15:41
HAFTARA: Joshua 2:1-24
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Jewish Learning by Kimberly Davis
Numbers 13:1-Numbers 15:41
Daily Reading Schedule:
Sunday June 7, 2026: Numbers 13:1-20
Monday June 8, 2026: Numbers 13:21-14:7
Tuesday June 9, 2026: Numbers 14:8-25
Wednesday June 10, 2026: Numbers 14:26-15:7
Thursday June 11, 2026: Numbers 15:8-16
Friday June 12, 2026: Numbers 15:17-26
Saturday June 13, 2026: All of the above readings Plus Numbers 15:27-41 AND
maf: Numbers 15:37-41
Haftarah: Joshua 2:1-24
Talmudic References:
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1
"The spies said: “It is a land that consumes its inhabitants” (Numbers 13:32). Rava taught: The Holy One, Blessed be He, said: I intended the land to appear to consume its inhabitants for their own good, but they considered this proof that the land was bad. I intended it for their good by causing many people to die there so that anywhere that the spies arrived, the most important of them died, so that the Canaanites would be preoccupied with mourning and would not inquire about them. And there are those who say that God caused Job to die at that time, and everyone in Canaan was preoccupied with his eulogy, and did not pay attention to the spies. However, the spies considered this proof that the land was bad and said: “It is a land that consumes its inhabitants.”"
Sotah
daf: 35a:8
2
"And Rabbi Elazar further said: Not all are worthy to petition God by rending their garments, and not all are worthy of falling on their faces in times of trouble. Moses and Aaron were worthy of petitioning God by falling on their faces, whereas their students Joshua and Caleb prayed by only rending their garments. The Gemara elaborates: Moses and Aaron petitioned God by falling on their faces, as it is written: “Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces” (Numbers 14:5). Joshua and Caleb prayed by rending their garments, as it is written in the next verse: “And Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, rent their garments” (Numbers 14:6)."
Taanit
daf: 14b:13
3
"The Gemara asks: What is different about a meal offering and peace offering, that if the convert brings these he has not fulfilled his obligation? The Gemara answers: It is as it is written: “And if a stranger dwell with you, or whosoever may be among you, throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire of a pleasing aroma unto the Lord; as you do, so he shall do” (Numbers 15:14). From this verse it is derived: Just as you brought a burnt offering and a peace offering when you entered the covenant on Mount Sinai, as it is stated: “And they sacrificed burnt offerings, and they sacrificed peace offerings” (Exodus 24:5), so too, a convert must bring a burnt offering and a peace offering."
Keritot
daf: 8b:18
Midrashic References:
01
Midrash Tanchuma, Pekudei 3:17
"When the Holy One, blessed be he, contemplated fashioning man, he said to the Torah: Let us make man (Gen. 1:26). It replied: Master of the Universe, the man You wish to make is of few days, and full of trouble (Job 14:1), and he will sin. If You are not forbearing with him, it would be better that he should not come into the world. He retorted: Is it for nothing that I am described as Slow to anger and plenteous in loving-kindness (Num. 14:18)? Whereupon He began to collect the dust for the body of the first man from the four corners of the earth, so that no one part of the earth might say: “The dust of the body of man is mine.” If he took the dust from the east and the man passed away to the west, the earth of the west might say: “The dust of your body did not come from me, I will not welcome you.” Therefore He took the dust from the four corners of the world, so that wherever man man passes away the earth would welcome him, as it is written: For dust thou art (Gen. 3:19)."
02
Bamidbar Rabbah 16:2
"That which the verse said: “The stout-hearted were bewildered. They fell into a stupor” (Psalms 76:6). “Were bewildered” – these were Moses and Aaron, who dispatched the spies. When they returned and said an evil report regarding the Land, they did not know what to do; rather, even Moses and Aaron were bewildered by them. Immediately, Caleb stood and silenced the entire population, as it is stated: “Caleb silenced the people” (Numbers 13:30). He stood on the bench and he was silencing them, and saying: ‘Hush,’ and they grew silent to hear him. He said to them: “The Land is exceedingly good” (Numbers 14:7). The Holy One blessed be He said to Moses: ‘I am extremely grateful to him,’ as it is stated: “Except [zulati] Caleb son of Yefuneh” (Deuteronomy 1:36). What is zulati? ‘This one is for Me [lazeh iti] greater that six hundred thousand of you. You did not find any recourse, but rather you reeled.’ That is why it is stated: “The stout-hearted were bewildered.” Why to that extent? It is because these emissaries were fools. Solomon said: “One who sends things by the hand of a fool cuts off his feet and drinks rancor” (Proverbs 26:6). "
03
Midrash Tanchuma, Vayakhel 8:2
"Why was the law given in the desert? To teach us that just as the desert is free to all men, so the words of the law are free to all who desire to learn them. Also, lest a man should say: “I am a student of the law that was given to me and my ancestors, while you and your ancestors are not students of the law; your ancestors were strangers”; hence it is written: An inheritance of the congregation of Jacob (Deut. 33:4). This tells us that the law was an inheritance for all who associate themselves with Jacob. Even outsiders who devote themselves to the law are equal to the high priest, as it is said: Which if a man do, he shall live by them: I am the Lord (Lev. 18:5). It does not refer to priest or Levite or Israelite but merely to man. Thus, One law and one ordinance shall be both for you and for the stranger that sojourneth with you (Num. 15:16)."
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