This week's Torah reading
Shelach

A remorseful group, regretting their previous mistake, rashly begins an invasion of the Land based on HaShem's original command. Moshe warns them not to proceed, but they fail to heed this warning, and are massacred. HaShem instructs Moshe concerning the offerings that will be made when the Beney Yisrael will finally enter the Land of Israel. The people are commanded to remove chalah, a donation for the Kohanim, from their dough. The laws for an offering after an inadvertent sin, for an individual person or a group, are explained. However, should someone blaspheme against HaShem and be unrepentant, he will be cut off spiritually from his people. One man is found gathering wood on public property in violation of the laws of Shabat and is put to death. The laws of tsitsit are taught, and twice a day we recite this section of the Parashah because it reminds us of our Exodus.
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