Shlach, Shelach, Sh’lah, Shlach Lecha, or Sh’lah L’kha (שלח or שלח לך — Hebrew for "send”, “send to you”, or "send for yourself" ) is the 37th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 13:1–15:41. Jews in the Diaspora generally read it in June. Its name comes from the first distinctive words in the parshah, in Numbers 13:2.
Weekly Sidra: Shelach Lecha (send for yourself) Torah Portion: Bamidbar / Numbers 13:1-15:41 Haftorah: Yehoshua / Joshua 2:1-2:24 “Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, "Go, reconnoiter the region of Jericho." So they set out, and they came to the house of a harlot named Rahab and lodged there. 2 The king of Jericho was told, "Some men have come here tonight, Israelites, to spy out the country." 3 The king of Jericho thereupon sent orders to Rahab: "Produce the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole country." 4 The woman, however, had taken the two men and hidden them. "It is true," she said, "the men did come to me, but I didn’t know where they were from. 5 And at dark, when the gate was about to be closed, the men left; and I [...]
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Uno de los propósitos esenciales del Pueblo Judío es hacer brillar la luz del Eterno en el mundo. Este propósito sólo puede ser cumplido totalmente cuando el Pueblo judío mora en la Tierra del Eterno, la Tierra de Israel. Cuando Moisés envió los doce espías para reconocer la Tierra de Israel, ...
Weekly Sidra: Beha’alotcha (when you step up) Torah Portion: Bamidbar/ Numbers 8:1-12:16 Haftorah: Zecharyah / Zechariah 2:14-4:7 Bamidbar 13:2 Send for yourself men and they will spy out the Land of Caanan that I am giving to the Children of Israel; one man per their Fathers tribe you shall send all of them leaders. ש ...
Weekly Sidra: Shelach Lecha (Send for yourself) Torah Portion: Bamidbar/ Numbers 13:1-15:41 Haftorah: Yehoshua / Joshua 2:1-24 Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, "Go, reconnoiter the region of Jericho." So they set out, and they came to the house of a harlot named Rahab and lodged there. T ...
The parsha Sh’alach Bamidbar (Numbers) 13:1 -15:41 is an adventure story. The good guys, bad guys, the crowd, plot, subplot and theme in this portion. HaShem told Moshe to send the men out for Moshe or the people’s sake. Those sent out where men of good reputation and faith in the community expected to be able to ...
Caleb hushed the people before Moshe and said, "Let us by all means go up, and we shall gain possession of it, for we shall surely overcome it." 31 But the men who had gone up with him said, "We cannot attack that people, for it is stronger than we." [Bamidbar 13:30,31] This week’s reading deals with the scouts which Moshe ...
The thirty-seventh reading from the Torah is called Shelach (שלח), an imperative verb that means “send out.” The portion is so named from the first few words of the second verse: “Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan” (Numbers 13:2). The Torah reading tells the tragic story ...
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